Food Merchandise to Sell at Holiday Fairs Suggested by Savvy Mom Ruth Paget

Food Merchandise to Sell at Holiday Fairs by Suggested Savvy Mom Ruth Paget

Gourmet and favorite food items in small sizes are fun to receive as gifts for:

-stocking stuffers at Christmas

-shoe stuffers (traditional German Christmas)

-Chinese New Year’s in February and Vietnamese Têt

-Corporate gifts for end-of-year cleanest and most organized cubbie contests

The items I would suggest selling at Holiday Fair include:

-Hungarian paprika

-Sea salt

-Tellicherry pepper to grind

-Fish seasoning with lemon peel to grind in a bottle

-Various nuts such as cashews, almonds, and macadamia nuts

-dried fruits

-dried mushrooms

-canned mushrooms

-smoked salmon

-herrings

-smoked sardines

-smoked mackerel

-pumpernickel bread loaves

-V8 vegetable juice

-Dried apricots

-Dried cherries

-Canned tomato sauce

-Pear cider

-Apple cider

-Unsweetened pumpkin puree

-California canned black olives

-Dole Pineapple chunks or rings

-Canned tangerine sections

-Orange-blossom water – you can make this in California or Florida

-Sriracha – Thai hot sauce – made in California

-Shin Black mushroom noodles – vegan, spicy instant noodles made in California

-Vegetable oil for popping homemade popcorn

-Corn kernals

-Applesauce

-Lemonade in aluminum can or plastic jugs – USDA approved

-Valrhona chocolate powder

-Bottled white asparagus tips

-Bottled braised red cabbage

-Bottled sauerkraut

-Lipton Green tea

-Red Rose black tea

-Abuelita or Ibarra chocolate for hot cocoa

-Oatmeal

-Raisins in small packages

-Spinach pasta

-Egg pasta

-Tomato pasta

-Instant plain couscous

-Bottled Lemon Juice

-Mexican vanilla

-Basmati rice

-Italian herbs in large sizes

-Black raspberries in cans to make blackberry jam

-Cornmeal

-Pimentos – bottled red pepper slices – my great-aunt used these in cheese bread

-Scone mix or muffin mix that just requires water and/or oil (Jiffy muffin mixes were like this in the past.)

-Cholula hot sauce for eggs and potatoes or Tobasco

By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France

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