Healthy
Christmas Hamper Ideas
By the Editor
A
traditional Christmas hamper
We
all know that Christmas is the time of year for piling on the calories.
A friend of mine once quipped that the reason Santa Claus is shown
as a tubby old man is to make all of us feel better about what we
look like at Christmas time! A traditional Christmas hamper is often
another factor in the Christmas calorie binge, often being packed
full of tasty but very unhealthy treats like chocolate, crisps and
fatty, tinned foods. But a Christmas hamper needn't pack in the
fat or the calories. With the New Year just around the corner, your
choice of a healthy hamper could actually help keep you on the right
track before those New Year diets and resolutions.
Indulge
without the bulge: A healthy Christmas hamper
So
what else could you put into a Christmas hamper,
other than chocolates, crisps and tinned food? If you go back a
few centuries, or listen to some of our favourite Christmas carols,
you'll find that traditional Christmas fayre often involved spiced
fruits such as plums and apples and lots of healthy nuts. Try leaving
the chocolate out this year and filling your hamper with sweet and
nutritious dried fruits, spiced punch, fruit and nut cake, plum
pudding, fruit preserves or honeys and fun treats like sparklers.
A healthy Christmas hamper can be just as tasty as a traditional
one, but can also give you a chance to enjoy the goodness of natural
, healthy ingredients.
Want
to order a healthy Christmas hamper online?
If
you would like to order friends, colleagues or family a healthy
Christams hamper this year, take a look at Ripe
Gifts' Christmas hamper collection. They offer a number of
healthy Christmas hamper ideas that taste as wonderful as they
look, containing many of the original gift ideas I've just mentioned.
They also offer free next day delivery throughout the UK.
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