My welcome hamper

I’m very proud of the hamper we offer at my holiday lets and it gets mentioned in more reviews than anything else. They celebrate our location and provide a warm welcome too.

At my own place, The Snug at Caphays, it varies by the season as we provide produce from our garden, but it is always breakfast centred and includes a treat or two. We are located a fair drive from anything that’s open past 8pm, so it’s important to provide the basics - we aim for a tasty breakfast for the first morning plus a treat for arrival.

For details about your legal obligations when providing any food or drink, take a look at my blog post from September 2024 ‘Your welcome hamper and the law’.

Here are the details (most useful if you’re local to Dorset and Somerset, but just shows what might be on your doorstep).

Eggs: our own or a nearby properly free range farm.

Bread: Oxfords Bakery (Alweston and now Dorset-wide)

Fruit: raspberries/strawberries/blackberries depending on the season (the garden)

Cereal: We happen to be in Dorset, but a premium choice wherever you are is Dorset Cereal. This one is pretty consistently the best value I’ve found: Dorset Cereal Fruity Muesli.

Preserves: Monty’s of Somerset (Shepton Montague)

Apple juice: Dowdings (Somerset). Award winning and easily the tastiest apple juice I’ve tried.

A treat: Fudge from Dorset Chocolate just a couple of miles from us. The milk is locally sourced, which is a bonus. And it’s delicious, of course. It also has a longer shelf life than any biscuits I could find that had that artisan touch.

Kay x

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