Beautiful {edible} Holiday Food Wreaths: Day 4 of the 100-Day Countdown to Christmas

With just a few days now left until Christmas, we wanted to bring you something that would be easy to put together quickly and with little planning/preparation time. When I saw these beautiful, edible fresh vegetable and fruit holiday wreaths, I knew they fit the bill!

Photo used with permission; Credit: Lisa, Moore Minutes

These two were made by Lisa over at Moore Minutes. You can find a step-by-step tutorial over there! She used them for a breakfast holiday brunch. Look how beautiful they were on her table:

Photo used with permission; Credit: Lisa, Moore Minutes

Do you ever wish you had some new ideas to use up leftover food, especially at the holidays?

When we traveled overseas to bring our son home, we became much more aware of the amount of waste in America. When you’re as blessed a country as we are in America, I think it’s natural to lose sight of being good stewards and not letting things go to waste. It’s just easier to throw things out when they get old or when you’re tired of them, because you know you can get something nicer, bigger, or that you’d like better.

One of the things I’ve enjoyed about blogging is discovering blogs that show projects people have done with old things they’ve bought at a thrift store or that someone else was throwing out. It has amazed me the things people have done with these items that made them useful again, sometimes for a completely different purpose.

So today’s gift idea would be perfect for the frugal friend or family member:

Disclosure: For your shopping convenience, we are including a link when possible for each gift idea so that you can purchase if you know someone who’d enjoy it. These are affiliate links, through which we are paid a commission percentage from each purchase. We are donating 100% of the profits from the Christmas event through our blog to The Spoon Foundation. We are passionate about helping provide good nutrition to children struggling with malnourishment. Read more about our family’s experience with the problem of malnourishment here.

It may be a little late to get it for them for Christmas this year, but think birthday or even Christmas next year! If you’re like me, it’s never too early to begin thinking about next Christmas and to spread the buying of gifts out a little bit throughout the year. It makes it easier on the checkbook!

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Celebrating “The Reason for the Season”…

Check out these Ways to Keep Christ in Christmas.

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About the Author

Adopted at age 2, grew up in the Charlotte, NC area. Obtained Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Appalachian State University. Loves being a Mom of two and taste-testing Chef John's culinary creations and sharing them with readers.