Baskets Galore Ireland

Less than a week to go until Valentine’s Day! Yes it has snuck right up on us & is next Monday, 14th February!! We know many blokes (and ladies – let’s not generalise here) out there may be a little last minute when it comes to organising a present, but fear not, you still have plenty of time to order from BasketsGalore. We will be dispatching all your Valentines Gifts on Thursday 10th & Friday 11th February, as the courier companies do not deliver at the weekends. (Well unless you pay a nice big fat surcharge!) So long as you get your order in by 3pm this Thursday 10th February, we will post your gift off on the next (working) day service for delivery on Monday. So long as they don’t live in the Highlands, Islands or further afield like Europe, as delivery to these areas takes a little longer. And who said Valentine’s Day was just for girls? I always get my boyfriend a little something so he doesn’t feel left out! He annoyingly has his birthday a week later & so I have to...

Calling all chocolate lovers! Over the past couple of weeks we have been beating the winter blues by treating ourselves to some delicious chocolate goodies. Of course it is all in the name of research… as we only want to include the BEST chocolate treats in our new chocolate themed gift baskets! Our ‘ Christmas Chocolate Celebration ’ basket was a big hit in December, so we thought we would update our all year round chocolate gift range & also offer you some new choices. New products include a range called Sugar n’ Spice from Ashbourne Foods. They had lots of yummy items to choose from, but after some careful taste testing we have picked out Belgian Chocolate Shortbread Biscuit Bites, Intensely Chocolate Flapjack & the Seriously Fruity Flapjack. Asher’s Baking Co. produce the delicious, freshly baked chocolate chip cake we include and the luxurious caramel shortbread biscuits. My mouth is watering typing this! Ballyshiel’s Exquisite Chocolate Sauce & Chocolate Spreads add ...

January really isn’t the best of months for a lot of people. After the Christmas & New Year festivities have finished it is back to the daily grindstone, with what seems like nothing to look forward to. I've recently noticed a lot of friends & colleagues starting to book holidays or trips away. This winter also lead to a lot of flu going around. Almost everyone seemed to be inflicted with some strain of sickness or the cold. Pay Day has also been a long time coming, but we are almost there now! At least the snow & ice have stayed away for a while. January is so bad in fact that ‘Blue Monday’ occurs! Blue Monday is meant to be the most depressing day of the year according to psychologists. This date allegedly falls on the Monday of the last full week of January. So it was the 19th January in 2000 & the 18th January in 2010. There has been some confusion over the date in 2011 with some claiming it was on 17th January 2011, while others say Blue Monday was on 24th Janu...

Happy 2011 & a big thank you to all our customers for shopping with BasketsGalore last year & throughout the years! Christmas 2010 was certainly a challenge as we experienced some of the most extreme weather conditions ever faced across the UK & Ireland. The snow, ice & sub-zero temperatures experienced throughout December grounded flights, closed rail links and left traffic at a standstill. Read more here . At BasketsGalore we managed to keep dispatching all your Christmas gifts , despite nearly getting snowed in on a couple of occasions. A Thunder-Snow storm hit (a thunder & lightning storm with snow rather than rain – a rare phenomenon apparently) & we had to dig our cars out to get home (pictures to follow soon!) Some of our suppliers couldn’t reach our premises to deliver new stock, so we had to greet them at the top of the road & carry boxes through the snow. Obviously after we dispatch our gift baskets, they need to be delivered to the end recipient b...

Hello to all our customers in Ireland. Merry Christmas. As you know our gift baskets and hampers are extremely distinctive. Its the combination of freshly baked items, salmon and hams which sets a Basketsgalore Hamper apart from any other hamper in the European market. So although it may sound terribly boring, we thought our customers would like to know shelf lives of some of the more perishable items. For Hampers being dispatched today with salmon, chicken or duck, the Best Before Dates are as follows. Remember these are the earliest dates. New stock is arriving constantly which will extend these lives by several days. Hampers with Organic Salmon 200g 31/12/2010 Hampers with Organic Salmon 500g 31/12/2010 Ummera Duck Breast 9/1/2010 Chicken Crown 3/1/2010 If your Hamper contains ham then the Best Before Date at earliest will be: Montelieri Ham 120g 9/2/2010 Brady Family Traditional Glazed 28/2/2010 Brady Family 1/2kg Unboned Carving Ham 31/12/2010 Brady Family Traditional Sliced Ham...