Celebrate Your Valentine's Day with a Fresh Fruit Bouquet

Valentine's Day will be here before we know it. As with all holidays, it has a way of sneaking up on you. Finding an appropriate gift for this holiday has become pretty obvious for many couples. The choices seem to routinely be candy, flowers, or jewelry. I have a very different suggestion for a Valentine's Day gift. What could be more unique than giving your sweetheart a Fruit Basket this year?

Everyone seems to like fruit. It is a more nutritious option than candy in today's health conscious society. Nothing is as tasty as fresh, ripe seasonal fruit. A basket filled with delicious selections such as crisp apples, tangy oranges, sweet pears, fragrant pineapple, and juicy grapes offer a wholesome variety to please any palate and satisfy sweet cravings, as well.

Fruit baskets are as attractively arranged as a bouquet of flowers. Imagine the artful display of a centrally placed pineapple surrounded by the colorful array of red apples, bright oranges, yellow pears, and green grapes. The tasteful arrangement of such fruits makes them appetizing as well as beautiful. By including other fruit varieties such as kiwi, bananas, and nectarines, the colorful assortment increases in even more eye-catching hues.

Of course, if you are a creature of habit and feel the need to include some of the usual Valentine gifts, these can easily be incorporated in the basket along with the fruit. Simply add a few wrapped chocolate kisses, or present the basket with a romantic single red rose. If jewelry is your passion, a small box holding an inexpensive Italian charm ankle bracelet can be placed amid the pieces of fruit.