Spice Gifts Under $5: Recipe Samplers + Try-Mes | Selefina Spices
06 · For stocking stuffers that get used, not shelved

Small Spice Gifts Under $5

Stuff for Stockings

Five dollars buys someone a recipe they have never made, with the spices to make it. Fifty cents buys them a spice they have never used. Buy them one at a time or by the handful, for stockings, party favors, or the candy jar on somebody's desk.

Recipe Sampler cards tucked into a green knit stocking, with wrapped gifts, ribbon, and ornaments around it

Small in Two Sizes

Trying something new in the kitchen is easier when it costs fifty cents. Both of these are built for that, at two different sizes.

Try-Me Sample Size Packets

Fifty cents each. One spice, herb, salt, sugar, or natural food color in a sample size packet, which is enough to cook with once or twice and work out whether you want a whole jar of it. Around a hundred to choose from.

Recipe Samplers

Five dollars each. A recipe postcard with the spice packets that recipe calls for, so the experiment is already planned. Three packets for a simple one, six for a bigger one, and nothing else to buy.

Try-Me Sizes

2 to 3 teaspoons in every packet

The usual suspects are all there, and so are the ones people do not expect: three Moon Milk drink mixes, the natural food colors that turn frosting blue or pink without a bottle of dye, maple sugar, and both kinds of herbes de provence.

Shop Try-Me Samples
A Selefina Try-Me packet of butterfly pea flower powder beside a spoonful of it A Selefina Try-Me packet of ground turmeric beside a spoonful of it A Selefina Try-Me packet of rose petals beside a spoonful of it A Selefina Try-Me packet of crushed basil beside a spoonful of it A Selefina Try-Me packet of hibiscus flower powder beside a spoonful of it A Selefina Try-Me packet of maple sugar beside a spoonful of it A Selefina Try-Me packet of matcha beside a spoonful of it A Selefina Try-Me packet of mild crushed red pepper beside a spoonful of it A Selefina Try-Me packet of whole white peppercorns beside a spoonful of it A Selefina Try-Me packet of beetroot powder beside a spoonful of it A Selefina Try-Me packet of whole green cardamom pods beside a spoonful of it A Selefina Try-Me packet of ground cloves beside a spoonful of it A Selefina Try-Me packet of Blue Lagoon Moon Milk drink mix beside a spoonful of it A Selefina Try-Me packet of orange peel beside a spoonful of it A Selefina Try-Me packet of lavender beside a spoonful of it A Selefina Try-Me packet of pink peppercorns beside a spoonful of it

Recipe Samplers

A recipe card and the spices to cook it

+

The recipes were shared with us by creators we have worked with for years. Kelly Ryan's Molten Lava Cake and Chocolatey Rum Balls, Maggie Frank's Almond + Cardamom Biscotti, Karyn Maier's Holiday Rush Glögg, Brianna Shaver's Lemon Ginger Bars, and a few out of our own kitchen. Which samplers are in stock changes week to week, as some sell out and new recipes earn one, so the shelf is the honest place to look.

Shop Recipe Samplers
A Recipe Sampler card with the spice packets it calls for
The back of a Recipe Sampler card showing the printed recipe
Recipe Sampler cards tucked into a knit stocking among greenery and ornaments
A wrapped Recipe Sampler tied with ribbon on a holiday table