Foodie Pen Pals July 2014
I’ve been participating in Foodie Pen Pals for about a year and a half now and I’ve received some really interesting packages filled with all sorts of delightful goodies. Some of the boxes have been more to my taste than others and some have been so incredibly thoughtful, but I have to say that this month’s box definitely takes the cake!
I was teamed up with the lovely Jenn over at Bake and Be Merry this month. We exchanged a couple of e-mails and hit it off right away. This was her first time participating in Foodie Pen Pals. She mentioned in one of her e-mails that she participated in a foodie scavenger hunt which raised money for the Ottawa Food Bank. I was so interested to hear that since I volunteer 2 days a week at a local food bank. She wrote an awesome blog post on the subject, which I forwarded to our community liaison in hopes that we can do something similar in the future.
I sent Jenn my usual Foodie Pen Pal questionnaire asking things like ‘what’s your favourite food?’, ‘what don’t you like?’, etc… and she answered it and then added even more questions for me to answer. One question she asked me was ‘Is there something that you’ve been wanting to try/make/eat/drink that you haven’t gotten around to yet?’ I answered that I’ve been wanting to attempt making macarons for my sister as they’re her favourite baked treats. Well wouldn’t you know that the extremely sweet and thoughtful Jenn put together a macaron kit for me!!!! I mean, could you possibly ask for a lovelier gesture? I was blown away.
Okay, enough rambling and on to the package contents…

At the top of the box there was an envelope telling me to open everything before reading it. I LOVED that!

And then I got to open the letter. Reading this, you can tell how much care was put into the package.

Needless to say, the chocolate didn’t make it past day one and it paired beautifully with a glass of dry red wine. I did share 🙂
I truly hope that Jenn enjoys my package as much as I did hers. And I hope that next month she’s paired up with someone as thoughtful as she is. I wonder if maybe I should quit Foodie Pen Pals now as I can’t imagine any package topping that one! 🙂