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Best Value Fruit Baskets To Hospital

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Fruit Gifts are Healthy and Great for Hospital Gift Delivery!


Morbidly, chronically overweight people are often being prompted to reduce weight before surrendering the scalpel.  Eating fresh fruit and undertaking regular cardio exercise is essential - this means actually huffing and puffing and bringing up a sweat - not just strolling along the foreshore on a public holiday!!  Yet this might be difficult for people with minimal flexibility.

Neighborhood services for the average obese patient charges more than $43,000 a year, in comparison to roughly $7,500 for a non-obese sick person.  This is a vast amount compared to an affordable gift hamper delivered locally.
The figures are striking, but behind the monetary challenge for medical facility bean counters are folks battling complicated troubles - people like Lynne, who acknowledges she ate "all the wrong foods", but often did so to deal with difficult emotions.  Eating fresh, unprocessed natural food is a great way to get clean inside and feel your best.  It's really that simple.

McDonalds and KFC were her favourites. "It got to the point where I didn't really care. I over-indulged, I ate for comfort. If I didn't know what I wanted to do I 'd think, I may as well go and eat.".

Sending a Fruit Hamper for My Sick Work Colleague


Professor Savage said the new hospital would provide better treatment, but stressed it was merely a response to the problem. The "cure" is unlikely to be a medical one.

"If you're drunk you're not allowed to be served in a pub, but it's ok for fast-food outlets to deliver high calorie food in quantities that you and I couldn't possibly eat to an individual on a daily basis. So there's a moral issue," he said. "It's ethically sound to arrange a fruit hamper to be sent to your friend."

"Some patients have feeders. They will have a relative or friend who will go to the supermarket or takeaway place and buy food for them to eat. There's psychology, there's genetics and, unfortunately, there's no easy answer.".

He said disadvantage and a lack of education were often drivers, as were environmental factors such as a lack of access to fruit and vegetables, particularly in rural and regional areas.

"We also need to have to check out menu labelling for junk food outlets, or taxes to help to make processed food more pricey. It could be creating physical environments that promote more exercise safely such as bicycle expressways, and making it risk-free for little ones to walk to college.".

Have a Baby Gift Basket Delivered for a Newborn Arrival in the Maternity Ward


"I'm looking forward to going home and visiting friends and even sitting out on the front veranda at home in the sunshine and the fresh air," she said.

"I'm enjoying a fresh fruit basket delivered to me as a get well gift. It really brightens my spirits.".

Ageing and obesity will be the next two most significant conditions that might lead to death. Talking at the United Nations, a lecturer of international health and wellness systems at Harvard University, and the director of the International Health Systems Collection at Harvard T.H. Chan College of Epidemiology, Mr Rifat Atun, said.

Infectious diseases present a threat but nothing at all like the sustained life-style issues that results form lifetime persistent obesity. Reducing weight and maintaining a healthy weight in the Body Mass Index (BMI) weight range is the best way to prevent health challenges. Particularly, Ebola has been maintained and effectively controlled, so the attention is squarely back on limiting fat intake and moderating weight gain.

Dealing with weight gain is much more than a medical problem, with entrenched business models based on selling high fat high taste high salt products and shifting the corporate model from this requires considerable political pressure.

Aside from infectious diseases, Atun said obesity and obesity-related chronic diseases like hypertension, heart diseases and diabetes will be the coming future's massively important health problems. "The second-most important problem will certainly be physical changes that emerge with ageing," he said.

Say Thank You to a Friend with a Fruit Basket Who is Recovering from an Illness


And combining the two, a child with obesity could actually live 50 plus years presenting regularly at hospital and also clogging the system with the many related complaints which come with obesity.

Obesity is also complicated by the fact that it is certainly not simply a health related ailment - it is also has community and cultural implications. Rapid food and the reliance on fatty salty foods and sweet calorie dense foods means that a whole industry has developed around supplying these products, and dismantling it is not as simple as just advising people to buy other products.

The entire industrial complex is geared to producing cheap, fatty foods as well as supplying it at speed - meanings that people are able to commute even more to and from employment and can eat meals in their vehicles instead of sitting around a table. This leads to really eating in a sidetracked manner and really consuming a lot more, and eating the wrong foods as there is less pressure to preserve healthy choices when you are alone on the freeway. You can in a sense "get away with it".

The number-one challenge in combating excessive weight is the environment we live in, according so as to an Australian biologist who has received a Queen's Birthday honor in June 2015. The best way to address this 'obesogenic environment' is to redefine obesity research and make it cross disciplinary, said Professor Stephen Simpson, who has been granted a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).

Same Day Delivery of a Fresh Fruit Basket with Wine and Chocolate to Hospital


"It's very easy to say obesity is all a failure of perseverance but we've designed a world that can make it really hard," said Simpson," head of Obesity Australia, and of the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre.

For example, our bureaucratic and fiscal system encourages an unhealthy food supply system that produces processed food low in fiber and other important nutrients, and caters our evolutionary drive for sugar and fat, he said.

"If you tell people to eat less to slim down and you really don't appraise that our bodies do more than count nutrients, then you're on a hiding to practically nothing.".

The Charles Perkins Clinic involves clinicians, immunologists, metabolic biochemists, engineers as well as theorists, economic experts and community researchers.  "We've got individuals collaborating in techniques they've never ever done before," said Simpson. "The version for how you get relevant cross-disciplinary research study and education and learning which doesn't lose disciplinary credibility is novel.".

By working across all these types of disciplines, from excessive vehicle travel to eating poor food choices, people could really make an influence on their lives. You can see how bad it has gotten by following Lynne's story listed here.

Make a Delivery on Time with Fresh Fruit, some Gourmet Chocolate and Boutique Wine for a Corporate Client


"We merely see the tip of the iceberg. Certainly there's lots of folk seeing their GPs with type two diabetes who will never come up to a healthcare facility, at least not for the moment.  But they will most likely in 10 to 15 years time and it's something our staff need to address as a the general public," manager of medical treatment Marcus Savage said.

In the present facility, three beds in a four bed bay often have to be closed to accommodate one heavy patient. Their length of stay is on average four working days greater.  A shortage of much bigger, specialised equipment is also an issue.

The bariatric bedrooms in the new clinic will minimize some of these challenges, but will certainly add an extra $1.67 million to building costs.  "We're getting more people who fit into the bariatric category and need beds like this to manage them properly, and they're getting heavier as well, thus it's a double whammy," Professor Savage said.

"They current serious challenges from a medical point of view.".

Diabetes, stroke, heart disease, pressure sores, mental health problems and an improved chance of hospital-acquired infections are one of the issues.  "Surgery is also a challenge since it's very hard to wake up these individuals up. A great deal of the anasthetic medications dissolve into the added fat deposits tissue and the anasthetists have to keep them in rehabilitation for a lot longer to make certain they wake up safely," he said.

Congratulations to a Business Associate who is a Corporate Client

Access to weight loss surgery in the public system is limited, with nine out of 10 bariatric operations taking place in private hospitals.  Indeed, this month a meeting of Australian surgeons heard that increasingly, obese people are being turned down for lap-band procedures because the risks outweigh the benefits.

"We've refined and industrialized our food source chain to meet these ancestral appetites that are no longer relevant to us and are damaging us." It's as though we have created the whole food chain of supply on the wrong principles - profit and taste - instead of health and sustainability.

Human's evolutionary motivation to use less energy is also sustained by our built environment and vehicle dependence, which in turn reduce our need to use up energy maintaining warm or by being personally energetic.  Saving time and energy is what it is all about when you have a get well soon git delivered.

"All of these points, through nobody's fault, are just stacked together opposing us and it leaves us with this real problem. You need to interfere at all levels and at multiple places in the complex system," he said.

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Simpson is leading a new cross-disciplinary approach at the Charles Perkin Center and is well-placed to accomplish so because he has a background in modelling complicated systems and cross disciplinary services.

Now a 'health environmentalist, Simpson commenced as an entomologist, researching the feeding and swarming behavior of grasshoppers.  "I used locusts originally since a model device for developing an entirely new way of thinking about nourishment," he said.  Central to this idea is that creatures need an optimum balance of different nutrient types such as required protein and carb.

Gift Baskets or Gift Cards?

Gift Baskets or Gift Cards?

PRESS RELEASE MARCH 2015; SYDNEY, NSW, AUSTRALIA

Today we are interviewing the team behind the well establshed fruitbaskets.net.au - a husband and wife team of fruit lovers who have taken their business online and are now able to offer fresh fruit baskets for delivery in Sydney.  What started as a hobby has grown to become a thriving business servicing the corporate sector with get well gifts, thank you gifts and appreciation gifts for delivery.


It makes a lovely contrast to the ubiquitous gift card that has slowly but surely overtaken the gift giving landscape with it's un-branded neutrality and blandness.

We spoke with Bren and Kacy when they were in a particularly jubilant mood, having just returned from a weekend away at a yoga retreat.  Fresh faced, fit and full of vibrant energy, they explained the difference between a gift basket and a gift card - not that it needs explaining, but you get the picture.


"The question, my dear friend, is do we send a gift basket or do we just send a gift card?  It's as old as the internet, really, whether to send a gift card as a gift or to go one step further and make the decision to actually choose the gift yourself and have it sent.

The Gift Card Interview 2015



When my wife and I started out in the gift basket business back in 2007, we made gift hampers for all occasions and life events - in particular the corporate sector.  But then things changed and the drift towards gift cards meant we experienced a change in traffic - people were actually less inclined to be confident and just order - they thought the should offer the recipient the choice of what to receive.

But a gift card reduces the gift immediately to a number - you only have to look at a gift card and the most prominent thing about it is the dollar value.  So you are getting a value, a price tag - not a gift per se.  It's instantly about being judged and compared and being seen as a number or a value.

Hospital Fruit Baskets Delivered



What a real gift giving experience should be about is sharing a gift - an experience of the giver and the reciever - not about giving a chore that is having to go to a particular shop and redeeming a gift card for a crtain price point.  I know myself that seeing a $30 gift card from a big hardware chain store is as much a challenge to find something at that price point as it is about celebrating the precious moment of my birthday or Christmas."

It's clear to see that Bren and Kacy have spent plenty of time thinking about their gift basket business and the whole schemata behind gifting, giving and sharing good thoughts in the form of a physical gift.

You're invited to join them and experience first hand the magic of online shopping and sending a same day gift basket - visit the fruit basket company for more information or order by calling 1300 284 684.

Best 0f 2014 - Fruit Hampers John Hunter

Today we are sharing our best posts from the John Hunter Hospital Blog.  We have been delivering the best fruit baskets to John Hunter Hospital since 1988 - with delivery twice daily to ensure everyone gets exactly the freshest fruit and best impression they deserve. 

Making the right choice is all important - and getting the right fruit hamper is as simple as calling 1300 284 684.  At Fruit baskets Newcastle, we'd love to meet you and share your personal thoughts in a handwritten message with your fruit basket. 

One of the most important things with the get well soon message is sharing exactly what you feel and giving the recipient that special feeling as they recover in hospital. 

Be brave and make your decision with confidence - nothing beats the immediacy and freshness of fruit when you are in hospital. And a generous, sharing fruit basket is just the perfect delivered gift idea.

1 - Fruit Basket Specials Delivered to JHH

Here, we offer a behind the scenes insight into what makes a bestselling fruit basket and just exactly what it is that's lends some fruit baskets a winning style over the rest of the competition.

There's more then enough reasons to choose a particular fruit hamper from the other fruit baskets - but after working in the gift delivery industry for over a decade, it's nice to know some professionals have got it covered.

You've decided to send a fruit basket and you type into the search bar fruit baskets delivery - and you have a good look at what's on offer.  What exactly are you looking for?  Big generous baskets?  Great value for your dollar?  Plenty of fresh seasonal fruit?  Brilliant presentation and sparkling styling?

Gift basket #Secrets -  Handmade Gives Meaning
When you choose your fruit basket, be mindful that handmade and hand assembled fruit hampers have that personal touch that simply isn't present when you go with a factory-style fruit basket business.

Simply knowing your fruit hamper has been put together by hand with your specific order top of mind means you are most likely to get exactly what you had envisioned - not just a pack and send copy that lacks meaning and personality.

There is something about the quality and service of a handmade fruit basket that fits so well with the whole gift giving idea - it's what inspires and motivates us as fruit basket artisans

2 - Lake Macquarie Private Hampers


In a Fruit Gift basket, chocolate elevates a get well soon thought into a sensitive gesture that covers the boundary of intimacy and genuine feel good feeling.  Sharing chocolate is an age-old practice that cements relationships and strengthens the bonds that tie families, friends and our futures together. 

Making the most of your next chocolate fruit basket sharing occasion is simple using a reputable member of the Australian Fruit Baskets Association – and especially when you choose a recognised award winner with expert knowledge.

Chocolate is made from the seeds of the cacao beans – they are fermented, dried, roasted and hulled – and then the seed meat is ground down and  and melted to make a paste – a chocolate liquor.  When this hardens it is basically unsweetened cooking chocolate. 

This is half cocoa butter and half cocoa solids.  And here is the surprising kicker that sets chocolate apart and gives us all that delicious velvety smoothness – cocoa butter is solid at room temperature but melts in the mouth.

3 - John Hunter Hospital JHH Top Eight

Plenty of John Hunter Hospital related links and guides to share and keep you in the best JHH Hospital information available online.

A thoughtful and insightful article that has proved popular with readers - people love lists and this blog post is no different.

4 - Get Well Free Delivery


It's always a big call - offering FREE delivery and giving back to your loyal customers who support your vision and make your whole business delivering fresh fruit gifts and edible blooms a possibility.

Hospital Get Well Gifts

So we we naturally a little reluctant to go forward and take the big step and offer free shipping and free delivery on fruit baskets and hampers delivered to John Hunter Hospital.

Stats from a recent online e-commerce shopping survey published in a gift baskets industry study show that 58% of customers have added extra newborn baby, celebration, gourmet or sympathy items to their shopping basket in order to qualify for free delivery.

That's pretty impressive - but even more so when you consider the actual real cost of delivery across Sydney to Sydney shipping is around $5 per item (not including the cardboard box or packaging).  And this is when most florists and edible blooms online sellers are targeting around $15 - $19 for a fixed price delivery charge.

Best of 2014 John Hunter Hospital - the review article on #fruitbaskets for sick friends and familyn hospital.  Thanks for being such loyal readers of this blog over the year and keeping in touch - you really do make a difference when we are here typing in the middle of winter thinking about Fruit  and Hampers.  Thanks.

Fresh Fruit Hospital Gifts

Got fruit ripening on the tree? Call the Gleaning Project!

Revelstoke Bear Aware is once again running the Gleaning Project in 2014. For those not in the know, the Gleaning Project is where volunteers help harvest excess fruit and take it to Community Connections Food Bank.
“Leaving fruit on the tree or on the ground to rot is just asking for bears to come and snack at your place,” Sue Davies, coordinator for Revelstoke Bear Aware, said in a statement released on Friday, July 4.
“And as the saying goes, a fed bear is a dead bear, and a far more dangerous bear too. If you can pick you own fruit, then do so; if you have too much, take it to the food bank. If you can’t harvest your own fruit, that’s when to call the Gleaning Project to come help. Volunteers will harvest the fruit, the volunteer pickers get to keep some, and the rest goes to the food bank. It’s a win-win-win situation.”

Read the full article here.

your nutrition questions – what about fruit?


The trouble is, there are as many opinions as there are experts, and this is a big topic. Far too big for just one post, so I thought I’d start with a question I get fairly frequently – what about fruit?
Let’s break it down.
Fruit contains carbohydrate, mainly in the form of the naturally occurring sugar, fructose. Vegetables also contain carbohydrate, but typically much less than fruits, and they therefore contain fewer calories.
The idea that fruit is loaded with sugar needs to be put into perspective. Yes, there is sugar in fruit, but it’s not like it’s a sack of empty calories.

Find more on this topic here.

Summer fruit recipes with a twist

Friends who are shopping for dinner parties are in a pickle. They’ve thought carefully about the main course (the most expensive part), and they like doing starters, so that is under control. But pudding? As they approach the finishing line, they’ve run out of steam. “What shall I get? I’m in the greengrocer’s now!” they pant.
There’s no point in suggesting carefully wrought pâtisserie that they should have made the pastry for the night before. Nor in suggesting they serve raspberries and cream, because (they believe) that doesn’t show enough effort. So I am forced to indulge in one of my favourite pastimes: thinking hard about food.

More on this fabulous article here.

When you need to send a Get Well Gift to Hospital, look no further than the Fruit Basket Company.


Get Well Free Delivery


It's always a big call - offering FREE delivery and giving back to your loyal customers who support your vision and make your whole business delivering fresh fruit gifts and edible blooms a possibility.

Hospital Get Well Gifts


So we we naturally a little reluctant to go forward and take the big step and offer free shipping and free delivery on fruit baskets and hampers delivered to John Hunter Hospital.

Here's the blog post all about it

Stats from a recent online e-commerce shopping survey published in a gift baskets industry study show that 58% of customers have added extra newborn baby, celebration, gourmet or sympathy items to their shopping basket in order to qualify for free delivery. 

That's pretty impressive - but even more so when you consider the actual real cost of delivery across Sydney to Sydney shipping is around $5 per item (not including the cardboard box or packaging).  And this is when most florists and edible blooms online sellers are targeting around $15 - $19 for a fixed price delivery charge.




I appreciate we are not talking Sydney to Sydney delivery here, but we are talking same day delivery to the John Hunter Hospital and Newcastle Private Hospital.  It just makes sense.  Order online or call us direct on 1300 284 684.

In other news, have you seen how well regarded and highly valued individual fruit gifts are in other countries?

Men's Get Well Soon Gifts

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Edible Fruit Arrangement to Hospital
It is little known that men usually encounter a greater rate of illness than women - but it is not all bad news, says Kacy Fletcher of The Fruit Basket Company in Sydney, New South Wales.

Through a balanced diet of vegetables and fruits, and with frequent exercise health risk elements can be reduced. And sharing a fruit hamper filled with seasonal fruit is an effective way to encourage the man in your life to enjoy even more fresh fruits.

"It's difficult to argue against fast food and the benefit of unhealthy food," said Fletcher, who provides fresh fruit delivery to workplaces, hospitals and suburbs in the Sydney. "But they can be "encouraged" towards healthy dining and walking away from the drive thru. Fresh, mouth watering fruit accessible most times fo the day is an essential step.".

"Eating a lot more fruit has such a significant effect on decreasing the risk of lifestyle conditions. Sending out a Fruit Hamper is a reliable way to help men experiment in a fun, lighthearted way with a healthy diet.".

"There is a silent health crisis in Australia," said Dr. David Gremillion in a recent article on the Men's Health Network. Gremillion warned about the parlous state of men's health. "It's a sad fact that, on average, Australian men live sicker and die younger than Australian women.".

Fruit Baskets Delivered is a Sydney, NSW-based company that delivers premium quality, local fruit to the workplace. Since 2007, Market Fresh Fruit Baskets and Hampers is Sydney's only taste-tested gourmet fruit delivery service and is recommended by clients for beautiful presentation, hand written personal messages and designer handpicked fruit arrangements.

For more information on FruitBaskets.net.au Fresh Fruit and for a glimpse at what gooes into a Sydney Fruit Hamper contact 1300 284 684 for more information.

John Hunter Hospital JHH Top Eight

Here's a list of the Top Eight places you should get to know about the John Hunter Hospital (JHH).
HMRI - Medical Research Institute


 The HMRI does Research next to JHH

HMRI is a translational medical research institute based in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia.  Established in 1998, HMRI researchers deliver research outcomes and technology closely aligned to community health needs.  HMRI facilitates collaborations between researchers translating scientific advances into better clinical care, competitive commercial products and improved health care guidelines.

Kids With Cancer JHH



Kids Cancer Foundation Fundraising Efforts



As a children's cancer foundation we don’t door-knock, we do not employ any telemarketers and we do not have commercial agreements setting supporters up for ongoing donations.  We are not & have never used ‘Appco’ or any of Appco’s associated companies as commercial traders on our behalf, and we never will. 


Surgical Training at JHH




Advanced Surgical Training at JHH Newcastle

You will obtain significant experience with trauma and complex surgical cases at John Hunter Hospital, the largest trauma hospital in NSW and the tertiary referral centre for the Hunter Valley and northern NSW.  Most subspecialties in Surgery are available within the Hunter New England Local Health District including: Cardiothoracic, Colorectal, ENT, HPB and Upper GI, Maxillofacial, Neurosurgery, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics, Paediatric, Urology and Vascular. Advanced training is also available in most of these subspecialties.



John Hunter Hospital School


Student Learning at JHH School
John Hunter Hospital School has been updating their website and we are excited it has now gone live. Information is available for teachers, families and communities on a growing number of topics. There is also an area for students to publish their work online and links to useful sites for both teachers and students. Be sure to keep checking back!


Newcastle Private Hospital


Trusted and Experienced - Newcastle Private Hospital
Newcastle Private Hospital is a provider of extensive private hospital services to the region and with 171 beds is the largest private hospital in Newcastle, conveniently located on the campus of the John Hunter Hospital, New Lambton Heights.

John Hunter Hospital Fruit Baskets


Fruit Baskets John Hunter Hospital
Get Well Soon Gift Baskets and Fruit Hampers to JHH
After a while, we realized that the best fruit baskets were delivered right to the ward by courier and actually arrived wrapped in cellophane for the patient to open herself!  What a fantastic way to share how we felt and send our best get well soon wishes!

Kaliedoscope Childrens JHH

Help with Children's Services at John Hunter Hospital


Established in October 2002 Kaleidoscope acts as an umbrella organization that integrates a range of health care services designed to meet the ever-changing health needs of babies, children, young people and their families.

John Hunter Children's Hospital Cancer + Haematology


Help finding referrals assistance in NSW
Canrefer is a directory set up by the Cancer Institute NSW to help general practitioners, other health professionals, patients and their family members find cancer services by cancer type and location in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.

My Hospitals - JHH Newcastle

My Hospitals - handy comparison website
MyHospitals contains service and performance information for over 1,000 public and private hospitals. You can search by location or by hospital name to see hospital profiles and comparable performance results for measures such as surgery waiting times and access to emergency departments.
Plenty of John Hunter Hospital related links and guides to share and keep you in the best JHH Hospital information available online.



Fruit Basket Specials Delivered to JHH

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good karma fruit baskets
   First, Thank You for dropping by - as Newcastle's Favourite Fruit Basket Supplier, you can have complete confidence your delivery to #John Hunter Hospital will arrive in the freshest condition and be delivered by a smiling, cheerful delivery person.

Fresh Fruit Baskets John Hunter Hospital
Fresh Seasonal Fruit wrapped to you under cellophane

Please order now, call 1300 284 684

Here, we offer a behind the scenes insight into what makes a bestselling fruit basket and just exactly what it is that's lends some fruit baskets a winning style over the rest of the competition.

There's more then enough reasons to choose a particular fruit hamper from the other fruit baskets - but after working in the gift delivery industry for over a decade, it's nice to know some professionals have got it covered. 

You've decided to send a fruit basket and you type into the search bar fruit baskets delivery - and you have a good look at what's on offer.  What exactly are you looking for?  Big generous baskets?  Great value for your dollar?  Plenty of fresh seasonal fruit?  Brilliant presentation and sparkling styling? 

1.  Handmade Gives Meaning

When you choose your fruit basket, be mindful that handmade and hand assembled fruit hampers have that personal touch that simply isn't present when you go with a factory-style fruit basket business.

Simply knowing your fruit hamper has been put together by hand with your specific order top of mind means you are most likely to get exactly what you had envisioned - not just a pack and send copy that lacks meaning and personality.

There is something about the quality and service of a handmade fruit basket that fits so well with the whole gift giving idea - it's what inspires and motivates us as fruit basket artisans.

2.  Fruit Baskets are For Giving

 Make your friend's time in #hospital less stressful and share a fresh fruit basket. 

You know you want the best for them... 

Call Newcastle Fruit Basket's Kacy and she'll get the right basket for you today.

chcoclate fruit basket
A chocolate fruit basket

Fresh Seasonal Fruit

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Organic Wheatgrass
  Seasonal Fruit Choices

Speaking with Kacy from #fruitbaskets.net.au, we discovered that all fruit is not created equal and that there is still good reason to buy your fruit according to what is in season.  Put simply, in season #freshfruit is most affordable, let alone being more flavoursome, more nutrient rich and available in abundance. 

Kacy is not a big fan of following a recipe to the letter and using for example mango when it is not in season - using a similar type of fruit and adjusting your recipe to accommodate the shift in taste is far more efficient.  Always remember to taste your recipe as you are preparing it and as you become familiar with the developing flavours you will also see what works and what can be improved upon.

image of fresh capsicums at the markets
Fresh Fruit and Vegetables like this
As an accredited #fruit #basket specialist with experience building hampers across all genres and for all #occasions, it is worth asking Kacy what she sees as the new #trends and where fruit hampers are going as we approach autumn and winter.  Even though Winter is traditionally not the time to associate with fresh fruit - it is ironically the time when our bodies are in acute demand for the minerals and anti-oxidants that are present in fresh fruit.

fresh beans and ripe tomatoes
Tomatoes and Beans are awesome fresh as fresh
And don't forget the humble apple!  In a world where a new #superfood is being revealed each month, there is still a lot to be said for the ancient saying an #apple a day keeps the doctor away!  Please be mindful and aware that apples have a long shelf life and that this can be taken advantage of by unscrupulous fresh fruit vendors.  Some anecdotal evidence suggests that apples are stored for as long as 12 months before they hit the market!

So at this time of year it is important to keep in mind that your healthy eating should not diminish through scarcity - on the contrary - there is more fresh fruit available and ready for you right now than ever before.  Just be mindful that you order fresh fruit hampers with this in mind!  And good luck fighting off the cold this winter!

Lake Macquarie Private Hampers

Chocolate - Perfect in a Fruit Basket

**NATIONAL DISTRIBUTION MEDIA RELEASE**
Handsomely presented, a fruit gift basket is sometimes just what you need to lift your spirits
The word chocolate comes from the Mayan word for “warm drink” and hot chocolate was certainly one of the first ways to enjoy the velvet smoothness of chocolate.  The cacao tree (Theobroma cacao) gave us chocolate, but it was only in drink form for the first few hundred years.  In my personal experience, chocolate is simple to overdo or present in excess – so it is in measured small doses that the finest appreciation of chocolate is possible.  Like a few pieces of dark 70% cacao chocolate with a freshly ground coffee.  Now you're talking....

Chocolate is made from the seeds of the cacao beans – they are fermented, dried, roasted and hulled – and then the seed meat is ground down and  and melted to make a paste – a chocolate liquor.  When this hardens it is basically unsweetened cooking chocolate.  This is half cocoa butter and half cocoa solids.  And here is the surprising kicker that sets chocolate apart and gives us all that delicious velvety smoothness – cocoa butter is solid at room temperature but melts in the mouth.

chccolate in a box gift hamper australia
Chocolate adds a delightful creamy silkiness to your fruit hamper

Once unsweetened cooking chocolate has sugar, milk, vanilla added it becomes the version of chocolate that we know.  Long massaging known as 'conching” loosens the bind of the chocolate and lends it that velvety texture we all love so much.  The longer the chocolate is kneaded, the smoother the texture and the better quality the most likely more expensive the chocolate will be.

Compound chocolate has a lower content of chocolate liquor and instead other less quality fats in its place.  What you are looking for is couverture chocolate, which has a high gloss and dresses your fruit items like strawberries with a fine, thin film. 

When cooking with chocolate, here's some handy tips

- chop or grate chocolate before melting it.
- all utensils must be completely DRY – no water at all.
- NEVER melt chocolate alone over direct heat

In a Fruit Gift basket, chocolate elevates a get well soon thought into a sensitive gesture that covers the boundary of intimacy and genuine feel good feeling.  Sharing chocolate is an age-old practice that cements relationships and strengthens the bonds that tie families, friends and our futures together.  Making the most of your next chocolate fruit basket sharing occasion is simple using a reputable member of the Australian Fruit Baskets Association – and especially when you choose a recognised award winner with expert knowledge.

Fruit Baskets Cold Press Fruit Juice

NEWCASTLE HERALD PRESS RELEASE 2014

Juicing fresh fruit is the perfect way to combine mega nutrients into a life boosting elixir for your health.  And what better way to get the fresh immediacy of fruit than with a basket filled with this season's finest?  For too long people have associated juice with breakfast - and this is just not true any longer!  For an original and fresh fruit basket delivered to the hospital, people in Newcastle go with Hunter Valley Hampers.
 
John Hunter Hospital Fruit Baskets
2014 Fruit Basket for John Hunter Hospital

Try incorporating green and leafy organics into your drink - think cold-pressed and almost salad style vegies to give extra fibre.
The rich, dark vibrant colours of fresh extracts are a boon for your health and in juice form are so simple to digest!

A friend of mine swears by the health giving properties of green juices - and she is also a big fan of delivered fruit baskets.
"Finding what works for you is all about matching your taste to your ingredients," as she chops, dices and slices rainbow vegetables and fruit into her cold press juicer.
"Juicing is right on trend in 2014 and widely recommended by all the experts."

Try a thick syrupy juice concoction to avoid the hassles of drips and runs of fresh fruit - you can also mix and match your flavours.  When you are on the go, juice is an amazing cover all for the main five fruit and veg staples that we sometimes just don't have time for.

Or, think of your morning juice as a quick way to tick the daily fruit and veg box in one fell swoop - no need for chasing fruit and veg for the whole day.
But, in keeping the whole matter balanced - we should remember that fruit juice alone is worryingly high in fructose sugar and this can be a trigger for early onset type two diabetes.

Sharing a Get Well Soon Fruit Basket avoids all the dangers of juiced fruit in the short term - as the hospital delivery means your friend will be eating - not drinking - the fruit.  Here it is best to try to eat fruit instead of juicing it.  But if you do juice - consider adding vegetable elements like celery, broccoli, ginger, kale and beetroot.

To get started juicing fruit and veg, try a smattering of green leaves, chopped vegies and the juice of a quarter lemon for taste.  Once you get confident mixing and matching the basic elements, you'll find it easier to make the perfect juice drink from fruit hamper fruit baskets.

How to Spot a Gourmet Hamper

Interview With Hunter Valley Hampers
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Taste a Genuine Authentic Gourmet Hamper this Christmas
AFTER A HALF DOZEN Christmas Seasons as the creative designer behind Hunter Valley Hampers, Kacy has a special feeling for knowing what her buying public wants.
And when you consider her Hunter Valley Hampers has sold out completely in 2011 and 2012 on a budget of zero advertising, it's no wonder she must be doing something right.  Artisan Food, Craft Beer and handmade fresh regional produce is a winning formula.
Over coffee, we sat down and asked her secrets to making a delicious gourmet hamper and what makes Hunter Valley Hampers a trusted authority on gift baskets.

"No Pretzels," Kacy laughs, when I ask her the secret to gourmet gift baskets, "Once we stopped putting in bags of pretzels we noticed we got a different clientele."

Keeping it Real for the Peeps


The secret to Hunter Valley Hampers success over the last decade (the business has operated independently since 1988, although only recently moved to 'high end' gourmet in 2009) is offering quality product regardless of the price.

"People are willing to pay for quality product," Kacy explains, showing a jar of tunisian spiced pickle made locally, "and so long as they know you are backing the product up with a meaningful purpose, place and personality; they will pay a premium price."

"We see competitors offering plastic poinsettia flowers and questionable "gourmet" products like john west smoked oysters - these things just don't meet what our clients expect in a regional gourmet hamper," Kacy offered as a reason for the loyal customer base at Hunter Valley Hampers.  "It's really quite embarrassing to turn up at a corporate tower in Sydney and expect the executives to accept a hamper filled with this sort of stuff - I can see why people keep coming back to us.  We keep our hampers understated and let the real food do all the talking."

Making meaningful Connections with the Community


Things are looking great this Christmas, but I feel the moment of truth for any Christmas Gift Basket is the minutes after arriving home when the hamper box is sitting by your front door.  You place the box on the kitchen counter and open it to reveal a wicker basket filled with clinking jars, bottles, pouches and pudding - all presentation packed under crisp cellophane and ready for display under the Christmas Tree in time for the big day. 

An authentic artisan hamper for a genuine, homestyle Christmas Day.  Merry Christmas, and Give Yourself the Gift of a Joyous Sharing Christmas with real friends and valued family members.

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Enjoy your time at John Hunter Hospital and please take advantage of our same day delivery service to make a meaningful impression.  Call 1300 284 684 to order today, please.

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EVERYONE KNOWS the John Hunter Hospital is in Newcastle, NSW 2300 - and it is a small town, so we all have some connection to each other - whether it be through work, sport, education or family - so making a thoughtful charity gift at Christmas in Newcastle NSW 2300 is like giving to a friend in some ways.

And in all the hustle and movement in Newcastle 2300 we can too easily forget those who live with the struggle of poverty, lack of opportunity and sheer hopelessness.  They often front up at the John Hunter Hospital for companionship or some imagined medical condition.  It is these people who should not be forgotten whilst we all gorge on unwanted mince pies, or leave half drunk bottles of beer at backyard barbeques.

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When I returned to Newcastle after living and working abroad, the first thing I noticed was how small everything looked - in my memory somehow it had been stored as this big grand place with monuments and towering buildings and epic natural features.  But not the John Hunter Hospital, or JHH as the medical staff, nurses and allied health call it.

But with the passage of time, that distance had eroded the memories to the point that on seeing them for the first time since returning from Europe - everything had a kind of hometown intimacy.  I truly felt like I had returned back home to Newcastle - that being a Novocastrian was definitely part of my identity.

CHRISTMAS TIME is a time of frenetic acquisition - we move around consuming parties and gatherings and people with pace, as though there is some crazy same day delivery deadline to get in as much as we can before we settle down at some family home for the Christmas Day luncheon.

I urge you all to go out and get involved in some small way with those less fortunate - even if it is only dropping a few coins into a buskers hat.   Just give something away to a fellow Novocastrian and see how you feel - it can be a curious sensation indeed.

In Newcastle 2300 NSW - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

John Hunter Hospital Florist Fruit Hampers

Gorgeous Fruit Basket filled with fresh seasonal fruit


At the Beginning we were amazed at the difference fruit baskets and hampers made to patients at the John Hunter Hospital.  People would call us or place their order online using the secure shopping cart and then we would be parking and carrying in arms full of fruit gifts and delivered gifts for people who were currently patients at the John Hunter. 

The famous Hunter Valley Hampers Logo, since 1988

Then walking through the wards, and the looks of amazement and smiles of approval from all the people waiting outside, and most importantly the staff, who eagerly took the hampers from us and wanted to be the lucky person to hand over the 0ifruit basket to the patient and see the infectious smile and show of gratitude that it gave.
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It's true a fruit basket won't make a lick of difference in a week or a year from now, but when you are laid up on a bed in hospital and haven't seen a friendly face for a few days, let me tell you, it can mean the world.  Sometimes I have seen the looks in peoples eyes, and how they almost turn away, and bite their lip and try to stifle away a cry - other times it's open arms and almost wanting to give us a hug as they excitedly unwrap the envelope to read the important personal message.

The John Hunter Hospital is an important center for volunteer, fundraising and community work, and sharing the knowledge and experience of the people who have spent their lives working with patients at their most vulnerable is what they do best.  Making someone feel less alone and more welcome at this time is priceless and something that can't be taken lightly.

A great charity to support is the miracle babies foundation at the John Hunter Hospital.  It does great work helping new families with support and assistance to connect with other caregivers and allied health.  It goes without saying that any assistance or donation to help them continue their work would be most appreciated not only by the team but also by the people and children who benefit most from their expertise.

Another great concept is the idea of the everyday hero - which aims to connect people in their day to day life with the great ideals and out of reach goals that some of us may not have the chance to impact on.  Take a look at Everyday Heroes John Hunter Hospital to find out more.

Whilst we are talking about the amazing work of the John Hunter Children's Hospital, it is worth noting that the kaleidoscope unit works tirelessly to further the cause of children's health and acts as a central point for all medical and health related information and services to gather.  As a resource for local community children, the Kaleidoscope initiative is invaluable, lending the Hunter Region a first class facility to assist in the management and care of the whole range of childhood medical issues.

Of course, the children benefit from the joy and opportunities offered by the likes Starlight Foundation, which presents children with once in a lifetime opportunities to meet, experience and connect with dreams and aspirations they might otherwise not have encountered.


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(PRESSRELEASE.COM, January 08, 2013 ) Newcastle, NSW -- Since 1988, sending a Fruit Basket to John Hunter Hospital Newcastle has been the City’s leading designer of fresh fruit baskets, hand-sculpted with a fresh designer twist.




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Fruit Baskets suit all occasions and make for a fresh, sharing moment.  Highly recommended and five star first class results.