CLOSED: Mother's Day with GourmetGiftBaskets.com R&G 5-9

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Mother's Day Sweets & Treats Basket™:
· Bountiful Harvest Granola by GourmetGiftBaskets.com - 8 oz. - This natural granola has a wide array of dried fruit from cranberries to pears, apricots and currants, as well as fresh pecans, filberts and pumpkin seeds all flavored with a hint of coconut.
· Key Lime White Chocolate Chip Cookies by Brent & Sams - 7 oz. - Made from scratch, these cookies have a crunchy style and are tangy yet sweet to the taste. The key lime flavor is perfectly balanced out by the sweetness of the white chocolate chips.
· Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Melt-a-Ways by Chocolates on Broadway - 5oz. - A traditional treat, these milk chocolate peanut butter melt-a-ways will live up to their reputation as a gourmet great.
· Cranberry Orange Tango by Nutorious - 2oz - This tango is a refreshing blend of all natural ingredients.  It contains walnuts, almonds, pecans and dried cranberries dusted with a delicate orange confection.
· Metropolitan Trail Mix by GourmetGiftBaskets.com - 4 oz. - Yet another natural granola that is different from the other. Our metropolitan mix contains exotic fruit like papaya and pineapples as well as raisins, cranberries and bananas, and for nuts it has peanuts, almonds and pepitas.
· Chocolate Nut Medley by Marich - 4.5 oz. - To create this delicious nut medley, Marich covered premium macadamias, almonds, cashews, walnuts, and pecans in luxurious milk chocolate.
· Original Cheese Biscuits by Salem Baking Company - 1.5 oz. - These bite-sized biscuits are made with extra-sharp aged cheddar cheese and a hint of cayenne and paprika seasoning.

My Take:
First off I want to say how impressed I was when I first opened the package, look just how carefully packaged the basket was.  So when I pulled it all out everything was still in perfect place, well at least until I started pulling it all apart and reading about all the yummies I was about to devour (I mean share).  I didn't want to post this review until I had had the chance to actually open each package and try them out for myself.
• I've officially made it through trying everything in the entire basket, and the only thing I wasn't completely in love with was the Original Cheese Biscuits.  I thought they were a little too salty. However, my kids seemed to love them so maybe I just have a more sensitive pallet than they do.
• I was very impressed at the large nuts that were in the Chocolate Nut Medley and the Cranberry Orange Tango.  The Cranberry Orange Tango was actually surprisingly good. I wasn't sure how I'd feel about the cranberry and orange flavor but apparently I really liked it because somehow the bag ended up empty on my desk. : )
• I really don't like coconut so I gave the Bountiful Harvest Granola to my hubby, and well the same thing happened to him as did me with the Cranberry Orange Tango - all I found was an empty bag on the table a little later.
• The Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Melt-a-Ways were very good and creamy.
• And another snack I was surprised was so good was the Key Lime White Chocolate Chip Cookies. They were awesome, not at all what I had in my mind when I bit into the first cookie.  This time however I was smart and took just a few cookies to my desk leaving the package down in the kitchen to share.  Otherwise I think they too may have ended up mysteriously disappearing which would not have been good for my struggling with trying to diet and exercise!

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