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Every year companies invest in corporate gifts to give to both their employees and their customers. Corporate gifts typically are either promotional items like mugs with the company logo or food-themed corporate gift baskets containing candies, beverage mixes and sometimes even cheese samplers. While these gifts are great for showing your appreciation to your employees or your customers, you need to make sure the quality of your gift doesn't degrade its intended meaning. One way to ensure the quality of the food items in your corporate gift baskets is to select kosher gifts.
What Does Kosher Mean?
Kosher, in simplest terms, is a food grading system that is designed for segregating foods that are deemed "proper or acceptable," according to the rules set out in the Bible from foods that are prohibited. In order to be certified as kosher, the food items need to meet a rather exhaustive list of rules about the ingredients in the food item and how the food was prepared.
Ingredients that are non-kosher include things like reptile meat, shellfish, insects, pork, eagle meat, rabbit meat, owl meat, sturgeon and catfish. In order for other sources of meat to be certified as kosher they need to have been slaughtered appropriately, which usually means that they were slaughtered in a humane manner. Finally, in order to be considered kosher, the food items can't mix meat and dairy at any stage of their preparation or consumption. For example, a corn chip can be considered non-kosher even though it is made from corn if the manufacturer used animal fat to fry the chips. While the rules for kosher items are complicated, all you have to do is look for certified kosher items, which will be marked with either an OU, Start-K or Start-D on the label, to place in your gift baskets.
Ideas for Kosher Gifts
Kosher gifts solve several corporate gift giving problems. First of all, it ensures that all of your customers or employees will be able to enjoy the holiday gift baskets that you send out. Secondly, it ensures that the items in your corporate gift baskets are high-quality food items.
There are numerous themes that your gourmet baskets for corporate gifts can have. Your first option is to put together corporate gift baskets that have a sweet theme. When shopping for items to put into your sweet kosher gift baskets you can save time by shopping from food manufacturer's who specialize in kosher foods. Enstrom's, for example, is a great kosher sweets manufacturer that produces a great line of kosher-certified sweets, including almond toffees. These sweets not only make a great addition to a sweets-themed gift basket, but they also work well in coffee-themed baskets.
If you are interested in a larger thank you gift then consider putting together gourmet baskets for corporate gifts that contain either gourmet kosher meats or gourmet kosher cheeses and crackers. In order to be considered kosher gifts you can't create a meat and cheese basket. Keep this in mind when selecting your items. For example, to build a kosher meat basket select items like brisket, non-pork sausages, turkey jerkey and non-dairy dipping sauces like mustard or BBQ sauce. For your cheese baskets you can include a sampling of different hard and soft cheeses, a selection of crackers, a cutting block and a cheese cutter or spreader.
Written by Eisla Sebastian