Mothers day is approaching much faster than any of us realize.  This year in itself is flying by and that is making all the holidays creep up with out warning.  What makes things a little more interesting is that mothers day isn’t celebrated at the same time throughout the world.  Now most of you here in the states are probably wondering how that can possibly be an issue.  With the Athena Foods family, it is.  We have mothers to celebrate both here in the US, and in the UK.   This year they are actually relatively close to each other.  The US will celebrate Mothers day on May 11, and in the UK Mothers day will be celebrated on May 2nd. 

With a mere 3 weeks until Mothers Day, it is time to start thinking about Mothers Day presents.  Here, you have many options.  You could go the usual route of flowers or a box of chocolates, but those ideas are uninspired and played out.  We think that there is a whole host of other things you can do or give your mother on Mothers Day.  What you decide to do though will, or at least should, ultimately depend on what type of woman your mother is, and what kinds of things she would enjoy.

One great option for the mother that doesn’t get a lot of time to sit and relax, or doesn’t get to spend a lot of quality time with her children is to cook them a nice meal.  You could always take them out to dinner, but there really isn’t a whole lot of feeling and thought into just paying for someone’s dinner.  We would recommend cooking them something nice.  If you have a couple of siblings that want to participate, let them, but try to have the dinner at someone’s house besides the mothers (if at all possible).  This giver her a chance to get out and spend quality time with her children in a different environment.  What kind of meal should you cook?  Obviously it should be something she will enjoy, but you also want to make it something that she either wouldn’t normally have, or wouldn’t normally make except for special occasions.  For this, we have a couple of ideas.  One would be to make a nice risotto (recipe in this link). A risotto is something that most people think of as being to complicated to make, but it is really quite easy if you have the right ingredients. Athena Foods Gourmet Store offers a Gourmet Risotto Gift Set that includes almost everything you need to cook a gourmet risotto at home (all you will need is the cookware, wine, chicken stock, and some garlic)…this set starts out at $31 dollars and is really a great value! If ordered it will also be presented in a nice deisgner gift bag. There really is almost no gift better than giving an “experience”, and treating your mom to a nice gourmet risotto is truly an experience worth giving.

However, we know that not everyone wants, or thinks they can, cook a gourmet meal for their mother. Perhaps they want to treat her to something she would enjoy, but you want to stay away from the blah and boring flowers. Instead of a plain box of chocolate, if you mother likes chocolate you can get her a Chocolate Lovers Gift Basket. These types of gourmet gift baskets are a big hit with mothers and give them a number of things they love. First, it gives them chocolate in a couple of different forms, and secondly it gives them the opportunity to relax for a minute. How can we say this about a gift basket? This particular chocolate lovers gift basket comes with a variety of choclate but also with two different types of gourmet hot chocolate. It also comes presented in a great gift basket and only costs $12.99. This is a far cry cheaper than some chocolate boxes that don’t taste near as good. These hot chocolates are so good that your mother will have no choice but to sit down and enjoy them.

Maybe your mother doesn’t “love” chocolate. What then could you get here that would be different, thoughtful, and useful all at the same time? This is where something like a Gourmet Soup Sensations gift basket comes into play. This gift basket comes with two delicious, amazing, and easy to make gourmet soups. It also comes with some sourdough nuggets, bread mix, and a coffee mug. If your mother likes to cook a little and loves trying new foods, the Soup Sensations Gift Basket is perfect for them. It also obviously would come is a gift basket and only costs $12.99.

No matter what you wind up getting your mother this mothers day, make sure that it is something she will enjoy and something thoughtful, different, and unique.

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