This Valentine’s Day is a great reason to keep wellness in mind with when you are creating the perfect Valentine’s Day gift. A relaxing and thoughtful gift can be a custom created wellness box that you to put together for a personalized wellness experience.
1. Begin with a great box or container that is beautiful and can be re-used after Valentine’s Day
2. Get a new take on the traditional flowers with floral sage sticks. They look beautiful and stay that way once they have dried.
3. Healthy sweet treats are always a hit. A box of chocolates from Omnom, Iceland’s first and only bean-to-bar chocolate maker, is making chocolate personal in the form of their Love Collection, a beautiful gift box featuring a sweet candygram card and Icelandic chocolate bars: Sea Salted Toffee.
Sea Salted Toffee: Delectable, creamy caramel toffee chocolate sprinkled with fresh, crunchy Icelandic sea salt. Cupid couldn’t have made a better match.
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4. Add some relaxing spa type items like aromatherapy oils and herbal teas turmeric ginger, peppermint, green tea or chamomile. Offer a feet and/or full body massage to boot.
5. Alcohol free beverages are good or light ones like Kahlua and cream, Bailey’s or even margaritas. Some alcohol free sparkling cider is low in calories, festive and tastes delicious. Lime juice and/or lemonade is good, too.
6. Say it with love. Fun décor can be inexpensively purchased almost anywhere. Balloons, glitter, scented candles and/or hearts.
7. Make sure to personalize your box. Feel free to add favorites for that special someone. A perfume, cologne, lavender soap, a personal love poem or song, music and dance, a favorite book, or a romantic movie all make great additions for any Valentine’s Day!
8. Sweeten your gift with some extra special supplements including Vitamins A B, C, D, E, zinc and quercetin.
9. Breakfast in bed is always a special treat.
Here are a few mouth watering recipes that will hit the sweet spot.
Baked sour cream omelet from Memorable Mornings from the former innkeeper of the Strawberry Creek Inn Rodney Williams
Made with: ground cayenne pepper
Gruyère cheese
Monterey Jack cheese
Parmesan cheese
sour cream
paprika
farm fresh eggs
Autumn-spiced apple pancakes
buttermilk or raw fresh goat’s milk kefir or yogurt
ground cinnamon
ground ginger
nutmeg
pecans
organic apples
all-purpose flour or coconut flour
ground cloves
Baked peach French toast
buttermilk or raw fresh goat’s milk kefir or yogurt
ground cinnamon
half and half cream
organic maple syrup
peaches
pecans
cream cheese
coffee liqueur
gluten free bread
Chocolate fondue (or waffles/pancakes with chocolate)
1 cup heavy cream
8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate (premium, finely chopped, like Ghirardelli)
1 tablespoon honey
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
l teaspoon vanilla extract
Put ingredients together in a pot and let them cook and blend into a saucy consistency.
Add 1 pound cake (cut into 1-inch cubes) and 2 pints strawberries or blueberries
Feed one another bites of these yummy fondues
You could also do cheese fondue if you prefer
Melt these ingredients together
1 clove garlic (halved crosswise)
1 1/2 cups apple cider (or dry white wine)
8 ounces Gruyere cheese (grated, 3 cups)
8 ounces cheese (Emmental, grated, 3 cups)
8 ounces cheese (raclette, grated, 3 cups)
2 tablespoons lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
2 tablespoons cornstarch
grated nutmeg (Freshly)
ground white pepper (Freshly)
1 loaf french bread, cut into (one-inch cubes)
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All of these ideas will help to create a memorable Valentine’s Day this year!
Last Minute Holiday Surprise
Whisk your sweetheart away even if it’s just a quick weekend trip. What better time to plan a trip than Valentine’s Day weekend? To make it a truly special and memorable event, we suggest changing up the ordinary getaway: Try a tiny house vacation.
Reasons to go “tiny” this Valentine’s Day:
1. Automatic romantic coziness
Looking for romance? Closeness is key, and you can’t go wrong here. From tiny houses in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest to the shores of the Florida Keys, each tiny house features all the comforts of home cleverly designed in a fascinatingly small space. Dine together at the table set for two or cozy up in front of the flat screen TV to watch a romantic movie. Each tiny house is individually designed and decorated to express a unique personality, and inside you’ll find comfortable sleeping accommodations, a kitchenette, full bathroom and a flat screen TV, providing "glamping" vacationers a perfectly tiny romantic getaway.
2. Skip the shared spaces of a typical hotel
Glamping getaways are one way to celebrate special moments together. Visitors can enjoy their vacation while skipping the typical crowded hotel elevator or passing shoulder-to-shoulder with other guests down long hotel hallways.
3. Your stay has never been so social media-worthy
How often do you post photos of your hotel room on your social media pages? The view from your hotel room, maybe. But the room itself? Not so much. The surroundings outside are breathtaking, from oceanside sunsets to lush pines and mountain views.
Take a look at these romantic tiny house destinations across the country.
We hope these ideas help spark a Valentine’s Day that won’t be forgotten!