🎁 How to make great dinners last forever

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Patrick Kucharson
September 20, 2022 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

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Greetings Gift-Givers!

 

This is Better Gift Coach, where we ask you to imagine two different scenarios for how you spend your Saturdays in December.

Scenario #1 - you read BGC every week so you:

  • Are done with your holiday shopping

  • Sleep in an extra 20 minutes without a care

  • Flawlessly sing your favorite song in the shower

  • Find a forgotten sleeve of thin mint cookies in your freezer

Scenario #2 - you DON’T read BGC every week so you:

Estimated read time: 1 minute & 44 seconds

 

Gift idea time! Here’s a story of a
great gift to spark your creativity

The “big bites photo cookbook" Gift

Over the course of a couple years, I took funny action-shot pictures of my wife eating memorable meals at restaurants. Imagine photos of her in the middle of big bites with sauce on her face. I eventually found recipes for the dishes online and assembled a cookbook that had her funny pictures next to each recipe. Every time we open this cookbook and make a dish, we relive the memories of that meal together. This cookbook is one of her favorite things in the world.

Nick from Ohio

 

Why this gift is great

  • Constant & enduring source of warm memories

  • Level of effort shows how much you care

  • Unique, fun, and useful

  • Budget-friendly

 

Brainstorming your version of this gift

  • Great group gift potential - the more collaborators, the more photos

  • Your phone + social media might be a goldmine for past photos

  • Non-embarrassing photos, although not as fun, also work

  • Also works for non-restaurant meals too

For another recipe-related gift idea that doesn’t require this much effort: I stole from your mom, not sorry

 

Making this gift happen 

 

  • Is there someone in your life who you already have a lot of pictures of in which they are enjoying meals? ____

  • Who can you collaborate with who might also have (or can have) a lot of these pictures? ____

 

Spread some love! Share this gift idea

 

Forward this gift idea to:

  • Someone who has a foodie in their life

  • Someone who has a milestone anniversary in the next couple years

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My attempt to send
you off with a smile

 

All the best,
Patrick Kucharson
Better Gift Coach™

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