Florida-based event planner, Heather Snively, on behalf of Florida Department of Citrus has come up with some clever ways to create a festive and frugal holiday.
Here are a few of her cost-effective holiday tips
Decorate with nature: use materials from nature to dress up your table. Simply placing oranges in a basket can look festive
Oranges and greenery placed on a foam cone can made an elegant centerpiece
Borrow what you don’t have: Rent extravagant decorations at a local prop shop or swap items with friends and family to revitalize your holiday decorations.
Look to nature for holiday gifts: A package of fresh Florida citrus fruit is a meaningful and personal gift from the Sunshine state, sure to warm up that special someone’s winter. It can be conveniently ordered at www.pickFLA.com and delivered to a loved ones’ doorstep.
The Florida Department of Citrus is going to warm up one lucky reader's holiday with a gift basket of fruit. Please leave a comment on this post by Friday at midnight for a chance to win!
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Who doesn’t love this? Please enter me!
Thanks Agian,
paula
Oooh! I LOVE fruit!!
My mom would always put the biggest grapefruit and orange she could find in our stockings! We thought it was so cool, and now I realize its an inexpensive stocking stuffer, lol. I’d love to win!
What a great idea, thanks!
Decorating and eating fruit is my motto. Hope I win.
Looks amazing!
Those oranges look so yummy. I might need to go check my fridge for one now.
I love citrus fruit. Please pick me!
Citrus – YUM!
Thanks!
That would be such a nice treat. Love the smell of oranges with cloves…
It’s hard to come by good tasty citrus fruit. This would be awesome. Thank you for the entry.
I’m thinking fresh OJ… and pomanders!
Oranges are great! The smell is divine! I love the chance for some Florida sunshine!
Wow, that reminds this Florida girl of home as I’m sitting here freezing on a cold NY winter day! I’d love to enter!
How awesome it would be to be the lucky winner of a delish citrus basket! Thanks for the great tips of decorating with some items that we might already have on hand at home.
My family LOVES oranges. We would love to win some fruit!
Thank you for the great idea! I am going to go get a basket and do this for a family Christmas get together this year!
We are huge citrus fans. My eight year old would just as soon eat a grapefruit than any other fruit.
Yummy!
Lovely gift. I love oranges!!
I like fruit!
I am a fruitaholic – would love this.
ohhh yummy! I love citrus fruits!
My kids ate 5# of citrus in three days this week. Yes, really. Thanks for the chance to win!
I love florida oranges!
Yummy, Oranges!
Navel oranges are the best in this cold Ohio weather!!!!
i love using oranges for decoration. get festive and fun with cloves–make snowflake inspired shapes.
or cut in half and float in a large glass bowl with candles.
be merry & bright!
Ooh, I love citrus fruits! Those oranges look yummy. That centerpeice is gorgeous also. Thank you!
Ooh, thanks for the citrus tips. I quite like the idea of using citrus fruit as a decoration!
Those bright orange, oranges look so yummy…especially in our current 30 degree weather.
this is a tasty giveaway!
I would love to get this. What I wouldn’t do for a glass of fresh squeezed oj. Thanks!
We always had oranges at Christmas–a big box to eat all month long. Great giveaway!
My daughter loves oranges. I hope that I win this basket for her.
please enter me in to this and well i could just live off of oranges realy grate stuff also thay make good stoking stuffers
This would be fabulous! I love fruit and Christmas is a great time to have it, keeps me from eating all the cookies in the house…
Oh to have a beautiful Florida orange. Growing up I always looked forward to my stocking and it would always have the most beautiful orange in it. (I’m sure it came from Florida) Thanks for this giveaway.
What a perfect idea in this cold weather. My husband would especially love it.
I love citrus! Thanks!
My mom always used to put an orange in the toe of our stockings, so I associate citrus with Christmas. I’d love to win!
What a great and simple holiday gift.
Cute idea. Very fresh and bright.
This would be a great prize! When I was little, my parent’s got a cirus box each Christmas from a family friend…boy…I sure do miss having that DELICIOUS fresh fruit in the middle of winter!
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Citrus and the holidays just seem to go together perfectly in my mind.
We LOVE citrus at this time of year. What a delicious giveaway! Thanks so much!
Florida citrus – the best there is!
Yeah! Fruit
I love oranges and all their scurvy-preventing goodness.