You’re invited somewhere for a dinner and you don’t know whether or not you have to bring something for them. Our advice: never arrive empty-handed! And with the tips below, it does not have to be expensive at all.
A bottle of wine
An easy one if you ask us. You go for a dinner and you usually drink a glass of wine. You may also know what you’re going to eat, so you can tune in a good bottle of wine. There’s already a nice bottle of wine for 5 dollars. Something sparkling like Cava is available for 10 dollars. Do you go to a BBQ and is it nice and sunny? Then you are always safe with a Rosé. A tip from us: make sure the bottle is cold when giving it.
Specialty beers
If the host and/or hostess are more fond of beer, then there are many specialty beers available. Because there are more ingredients in beer (water, grain (mainly barley), hops and yeast) than in wine (grapes), the variety is so great that there is always an original beer to be found. Are they real beer lovers? Then a homebrewing beer kit, with which they can brew beer themselves, is a very nice gift.
Flowers
It is very attentive when you bring flowers. People love flowers and vice versa. Attach a personal card on it in which you say that you really enjoy being invited. The advantage of flowers is that they look nice and people can enjoy them for a long time. So they will be thinking of you all week.
An indoor herb grow kit
An indoor herb grow kit is trendy. And how nice is it that when you go to someone to dine that you take a herb grow kit for example on the counter with you. You can think of chives, mint or parsley. It fits completely into the theme of food and dining.
Dessert
Are you a chef in the kitchen or do you know something that is really tasty as a dessert? Then suggest that you arrange the dessert for that evening. The host and/or hostess then only have to concentrate on the other corridors, with which you take work off their hands, and you immediately make it into something “shared”. This way you can all enjoy the food and drinks optimally.
Take a game with you
Of course, it is quite fun to take a game with you. You show that you have confidence in a pleasant evening and that you have a nice game after dinner. Games that almost everyone likes are Rummikub and Ligretto.
Enjoy the dinner and have fun giving!
