Introducing two new Michigan gift baskets

Just in time for Christmas, we're introducing two new gift baskets chock full of great gourmet Michigan products. You will notice that we are now carrying Chicago Style Popcorn, Chocolate covered pretzel sticks, delicious giant cookies, and pretzel rods coated in caramel, rolled in Rice Krispies & then dipped in chocolate. Without further ado, here are the two new additions to our lineup as well as another Christmas gift bag that we've revamped.

The Little Snacker

This great little gift box is perfect for your favorite snacker. Includes Chicago Style Popcorn, 2 fresh giant cookies, bag of Twigs (chocolate coated pretzel sticks - highly addictive!), snowman soup cocoa mix, chocolate covered dried cherries, and a bag of naturally sweet and juicy dried cherries.

Buy The Little Snacker for $29.79 plus shipping

The No Sweets Gift Bag

Some folks don't like sweets as much as I do so I put together this little collection of non-sweet items. Includes - butter pretzels, award winning honey mustard (great to dip the pretzels in), pizza dip mix, Chicago style popcorn, and naturally sweet and juicy dried cherries.

Buy The No Sweets Gift Bag for $20 plus shipping

Merry ChristMoose Gift Bag

Buy The Merry ChristMoose Gift Bag for $29.79 plus shipping

No phone orders this Thursday and Friday

Celebrate Thanksgiving with your family and friends. If you need to place an order over the long Thanksgiving weekend you can place it online. Don't forget that you can order now and have us hold it for Christmas delivery. Just choose that option in the online checkout.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Mackinac Island rated as a "Top Christmas Town"

A special airing December 7 at 8pm on HGTV lists Mackinac Island as Number 6 in their list of "Top Ten Christmas Towns." The criteria for appearing in the top ten was that a town had to have a Christmas celebration that was unique. Mackinac Island certainly fits that bill with all of the horse-drawn sleighs and isolated quietness in a normally busy time of the year. Read more about it at HGTV.com.

How will you celebrate Thanksgiving?

This week's poll question has to do with Thanksgiving. The results from last week's poll regarding when you start listening to Christmas music led to a final result of 'after Thanksgiving' garnering the most votes. [poll id=7]

Looking for last minute Thanksgiving dinner tips? Check out The Lazy Man's Guide To Thanksgiving Dinner.

In honor of Thanksgiving, give to your local food bank today

Things are tough all over and in Michigan we've been feeling the pinch longer than the rest of the nation. It seems nearly every day I see a news blip about food banks having to turn folks away because they can't keep up with the demand. I'm asking that in honor of this being the season of Thanksgiving that everyone make a donation to their local food bank. Whether it's monetary or just a grocery sack of assorted food items - lets show everyone that the folks here in Michigan band together and help each other out. We will keep on donating 1% of every sale to the Food Bank Council of Michigan. They even let you donate online at their website www.fbcmich.org.

We already dropped off food at the local high school that is running a food drive. My next stop is the local library that is also collecting food donations and selling reusable grocery bags for $4 with $2 going to the local food bank.

If you are unsure of what types of food and other necessary items to donate here's a brief list to get you started.

• Cereals
• Canned Meats
• Tuna
• Rice
• Peanut Butter
• Beans, dried or canned
• Canned vegetables
• Canned fruit and fruit juices
• Corn meal
• Flour
• Sugar
• Macaroni and cheese
• Cooking oil
• Soup, dried and canned
• Jelly or jam
• Canned or dried pasta
• Detergents
• Toilet paper
• Toothbrushes
• Toothpaste
• Shampoo
• Conditioner

When in doubt, just ask yourself what you would like to eat in an emergency.