by Dorothy Sander

Created on: December 04, 2007

Specialty food subscriptions are a great gift idea for seniors. Grandparents not only enjoy receiving a regular reminder of your kindness and generosity they enjoy the often healthful and/or hard to obtain food items offered by these subscriptions.

The most popular subscription among seniors is "The Fruit of the Month Club" offered by Harry & David. Each month your grandparent(s) will receive a shipment of top quality, freshly picked fruit: January: Jonagold apples; February: Royal Navel Oranges; March: Royal Grapefruit, etc. You can choose a subscription to fit your budget from three, six, nine or twelve months subscriptions. Incidentally they also offer a flowering plant of the month club. For more details and prices go to www.harryanddavid.com or request their catalog on-line or by calling 1-877-322-1200. WWW.Gotfruit.com is another website that offers a fruit club.

Delightfuldeliveries.com offers a wide variety of clubs. In addition to the usual they offer a Cigar Club, Beer Club, Tea of the Month Club, BBQ Sauce or Hot Sauce Clubs and various cookie and cake clubs. Visit their website for details.

Dean & Deluca offer wine and cheese clubs. The wine clubs consist of a monthly selection of a specially chosen California wine shipped direct. Their cheese club ships two varieties of cheese each month. Again you have a choice of three, six, nine or twelve month subscriptions. Check out their full list of items and details of the subscriptions at www.deandeluca.com or request a catalog through their website or by calling 1-800-221-7714.

Lake Champlain Chocolates offer a "Chocolate of the Month" for your grandparent(s) with the sweet tooth. They will receive a different selection of chocolates each month with subscriptions from three to twelve months in length. A complete list can be found at their website www.lakechamplainchocolates.com.

Dale and Thomas Popcorn offers a wonderful popcorn of the month club. Monthly shipments of fresh gourmet popcorn will delight popcorn lovers of all ages and is one of Oprah Winfrey's favorite foods! Visit DaleandThomasPopcorn.com for details.

IGourmet.com offers many different clubs: Cheese, Chocolate, Connoisseur (treats from different countries), Coffee, Olive Oil, Salsa, Tea and Wine. Memberships are priced monthly and include shipping. Visit their web site for more details and to place an order.

Stonewall Kitchen offers a club that ships a different selection of items each month complete with recipe cards. They also offer three to twelve month subscriptions. Their website www.stonewallkitchen.com contains a complete description of their club and on-line ordering is available.

For the wine connoisseur Www.wine.com offers a wide selection of clubs. You can choose type and quality to suit your budget and your grandparent's taste.

Santa Barbara Olive Co. offers an "Olive of the Month" club. There memberships range from month to month to one year. Visit their website for more details www.santabaraoliveco.com.

These are only a few of the numerous specialty food clubs available. For more try searching "food clubs" on-line. There is a club available for every taste and every budget. You might end up finding one for others on your shopping list as well.

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