Creating a Gourmet Foods Gift Basket with a Healthy Touch

When it comes to creative gift-giving, food baskets can offer the perfect solution. You can customize one so that it's the ideal gift for your lucky recipient, select just the right balance of foods, and even feel free from worries about whether it's a duplicate (favored foods are always welcome!).

For those who love to eat but try to eat healthy, though, it can be extra-challenging. Forget those fried chips, for example, and save the sugary sweets for someone else.

Want help? We've got it with these fabulous and flavorful gourmet foods for a healthy food gift basket!

Vitalicious products: Vitalicious bakes up all-natural brownies, muffins, and muffin tops that are fiber-rich, low sodium, and delightfully delicious! At just 100 calories per luscious treat, these healthy gourmet sweets are so good that you'll want to buy two boxes: one for yourself and one for your recipient!

Project 7 mints and gums: Do good for others while you give something good by choosing Save the Earth Fresh Mint Gum and Feed the Hungry Peppermint Mints from Project 7. This company that makes everyday products, including foods, to help feed the hungry and replenish the earth. Recommended for your gourmet healthy foods gift basket: Feed the Hungry Peppermint Vanilla sugar-free gum.

Clif mini bars: Does your friend sometimes complain that her get-up-and-go has left? Solve it with a chewy, energizing Clif mini bar! At 100 calories each, these tasty treats come in flavors like blueberry crisp, crunchy peanut butter, and chocolate chip.

Gourmet gift basket for a family: It can be particularly tricky preparing something for an entire family. Adult treats usually don't jive with kiddie favorites! Recommendation: delight them all with a teamed approach. The Sugar-Free Delights Gift Basket from Hayneedle.com, for example, contains a cornucopia of tasty, sugar-free goodies that will thrill the adults in the family. Then prepare a For the Kids gift basket with small boxes of animal crackers, raisins, mini cereal boxes, and little individually packaged whole grains fruit bars from Earth's Best, available in naturally sweet Apple Blueberry and Pear Raspberry.