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Mother’s Day gift basket ideas she’ll love for 2024
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Mother’s Day 2024 is coming this Sunday, so if you haven’t gotten Mom or Grandma a gift yet, it’s time to get on it!
One of the best Mother’s Day gifts you can buy mom is a gift basket. Gift baskets, or boxes, are special in that they contain carefully curated products and are wrapped up nicely to boot.
There are lots of gift baskets on the internet, including ones that cater to moms. To help you out with your gift selection, we’ve rounded up some of the Mother’s Day gift basket options that suit budgets big and small. We’ve also selected gift basket ideas for soon-to-be moms, new moms and more. Check out our round up of the best Mother’s Day gift basket ideas, all of which have four-star ratings or higher from customers.
Best Mother’s Day gift box and basket ideas of 2024
Best overall Mother’s Day gift basket: Harry & David Mother’s Day gift basket with wine
Harry & David
It’s not too late to have an absolutely fantastic gift basket delivered to Mom on Mother’s Day. This Harry & David gift basket features all sorts of fresh and pre-packaged treats for her, including two Royal Riviera pears, two seasonal apples, peanut butter pretzels, yogurt pretzels, lemon shortbread cookies, chocolate truffles, dried mango, pepper and onion relish and crackers. Oh, and did we mention the bottle of 2022 Spring White blend wine that’s included?
With so much in this gift basket, Mom will be enjoying these treats for weeks — and thinking of you while she does it. Find the basket at Harry & David for $160.
To make it even more special, you can add on a personalized printed greeting card for $5 more at checkout.
Best self-care Mother’s Day gift basket: Harry & David Mother’s Day self-care box
Harry & David
This comprehensive gift box from Harry & David features tasty treats and rejuvenating gifts to make Mom’s day special. Mom will aget tea and a mug, hand cream, bath salts, a peach-scented peony candle and some plantable wildflower seeds. Moose Munch caramel popcorn and raspberry-filled shortbread cookies are also included, so Mom has something tasty to snack on while enjoying her spa-day-in-a-box.
Altogether, the box makes the ultimate Mother’s Day gift and a thoughtful alternative to options that are loaded with sugary candies. You can find it for $100 at Harry & David.
Mother’s Day shipping for this gift box is $5.99 with coupon code HD5, but you must choose May 10 delivery at checkout.
Best Mother’s Day gift basket for new moms: Jasmyn & Green new mom gift basket
Amazon
This very affordable gift box will be much appreciated by the new mom in your life. While the box does contain things for baby, such as a bunny blanket/lovey and teething ring, it also includes a handful of much-needed self-care products for mom that will feel soothing to use postpartum. These include lavender and frankincense body oil, bath salts, organic soap, hand balm and more.
This luxurious little gift box has a 4.8-star rating on Amazon. One reviewer wrote, “Such a good gift. The quality of presentation is beautiful, elegant and feels luxurious.”
Another customer said, “I got it for a new mom, and she loved it! The fragrance was amazing!”
Best splurge Mother’s Day gift basket: Boarderie Mother’s Day medium cheese & charcuterie board
Boarderie
‘Shark Tank’ alum Boarderie has served up a truly delectable cheese and charcuterie board that we’re positive Mom will salivate over. The box includes 20 artisan cheeses, meats, dried fruits, nuts, olives, chocolates and a box of rosemary-and-olive oil crackers. She will also get an acacia wood cutting board that measures 17 inches long and a bamboo cutlery kid for serving the snacks. The stand-out aspect of the charcuterie board, to us, is the carved cheese that reads “Mom” with the O being shaped as a heart. All this food arrives chilled and overnight shipping is free.
This particular charcuterie board has a 4.9-star rating out of more than 11,000 reviews. One reviewer said this was the “best gift my mom ever received!,” adding: “My mom had tears in her eyes! She LOVED THE BOARD. It’s so creative and y’all do a great job packing it so it stays fresh. I’m looking forward to sending another!”
Best Mother’s Day gift basket for coffee lovers: Coffee Beanery coffee trunk of samplers
Amazon
If your mom is the kind who looks forward to their cup of Joe every morning, consider getting her this cool coffee trunk from the Coffee Beanery. This gift box contains 20 mini bags, or sample sizes of freshly roasted coffee. This assortment of coffee includes light and medium roasts and comes in a variety of different flavors. Some of these include Hawaiian coconut, French vanilla, toffee, chocolate-flavored coffee and more.
The Coffee Beanery coffee trunk of samplers has a 4.8-star rating on the Coffee Beanery website. One reviewer wrote, “I absolutely have a blast trying these coffees! This is seriously the perfect gift for those who love coffee, especially those mamas!”
Best Mother’s Day gift basket for expecting moms: UntieTheBowGifts new baby gift box
Etsy
The best gift basket for new moms includes something for both mom and baby. This gift box from Etsy fits the bill and comes in multiple versions, giving giftees a nice variety of options to choose from for the moms in their life. There are nine new baby gift boxes to choose from and each comes with a greeting card of your choice.
The Mama Glass Blanket Green includes a cozy throw blanket, chocolate, a candle and a glass water bottle for mom as well as a crochet bunny rattle for baby. There’s also the Brown Bear, which includes a muslin baby blanket with a bear and a crochet bear rattle, as well as hand cream, a candle, scrunchies for Mom and more. Prices vary by box.
The UntieTheBowGifts new baby gift box has more than 500 mostly positive reviews on Etsy. One reviewer wrote, “Bought as a gift for my best friend who is expecting her first baby and she was thrilled!!! Arrived so quickly, all items were high quality and she loved the scent of the spa lotion!”
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Renad Atallah is an unlikely internet sensation: a 10-year-old chef, with a repertoire of simple recipes, cooking in war-torn Gaza. She has nearly a million followers on Instagram, who’ve witnessed her delight as she unpacks parcels of food aid.
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We interviewed Renad via satellite, though we were just 50 miles away, in Tel Aviv. [Israel doesn’t allow outside journalists into Gaza, except on brief trips with the country’s military.]
“There are a lot of dishes I’d like to cook, but the ingredients aren’t available in the market,” Renad told us. “Milk used to be easy to buy, but now it’s become very expensive.”
I asked, “How does it feel when so many people like your internet videos?”
“All the comments were positive,” she said. “When I’m feeling tired or sad and I want something to cheer me up, I read the comments.”
We sent a local camera crew to Renad’s home as she made Ful, a traditional Middle Eastern bean stew. Her older sister Noorhan says they never expected the videos to go viral. “Amazing food,” Noorhan said, who added that her sibling made her “very surprised!”
After more than a year of war, the Gaza Strip lies in ruins. Nearly everyone has been displaced from their homes. The United Nations says close to two million people are experiencing critical levels of hunger.
Hamada Shaqoura is another chef showing the outside world how Gazans are getting by, relying on food from aid packages, and cooking with a single gas burner in a tent.
Shaqoura also volunteers with the charity Watermelon Relief, which makes sweet treats for Gaza’s children.
In his videos online, Shaqoura always appears very serious. Asked why, he replied, “The situation does not call for smiling. What you see on screen will never show you how hard life is here.”
Before dawn one recent morning in Israel, we watched the UN’s World Food Program load nearly two dozen trucks with flour, headed across the border. The problem is not a lack of food; the problem is getting the food into the Gaza Strip, and into the hands of those who desperately need it.
The UN has repeatedly accused Israel of obstructing aid deliveries to Gaza. Israel’s government denies that, and claims that Hamas is hijacking aid.
“For all the actors that are on the ground, let the humanitarians do their work,” said Antoine Renard, the World Food Program’s director in the Palestinian territories.
I asked, “Some people might see these two chefs and think, well, they’re cooking, they have food.”
“They have food, but they don’t have the right food; they’re trying to accommodate with anything that they can find,” Renard said.
Even in our darkest hour, food can bring comfort. But for many in Gaza, there’s only the anxiety of not knowing where they’ll find their next meal.
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Story produced by Mikaela Bufano. Editor: Carol Ross.
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