To buy or to make, a decision I often toy with when considering giving a gift basket to someone. A professionally made gift basket always looks great, but I find that sometimes there are just one or two items I know my recipient won’t enjoy as much as the rest. A mix and match gift basket is the best of both worlds! You can choose what items to include in your basket and which ribbon to wrap it all up with. It gives your gift basket that personalized touch and the best part is that someone else will make it for you!

Wolferman’s gifts has a great create your own option on their website. You start by choosing the amount of items you want to include and then you get to choose from a huge list of delicious breads, jams and sweet spreads. Dean & Deluca also offers mix and match gift baskets, but on their website you start by choosing the theme of your gift. You can choose as many items as you like and they tell you how many spaces in the gift basket each item takes up. You can also fill your basket with items from more than one theme category. These are just a couple examples of the mix and match options online. So now that you know you aren’t confined to a gift basket with items picked out by someone else, go online and have fun mixing and matching when picking out your next gift basket.