The time has come again to reveal what I received in my latest foodie penpals package.
August ended up being a little different – I was originally matches to two people in England, but then the person who was supposed to send to me failed to contact the person who was supposed to send a package to her. Under the rules of Foofie Penpals, if you fail to contact one of your partners by the 13th of the month, you’re taken out of the running for that month and your two partners are rematched to each other.
Coincidentally, I was rematched to somebody I already know from the blogosphere. Alie is originally from Britain and now lives in Germany. She blogs about expat life in Germany and travel at Starting Over in Stuttgart. Go visit her 🙂
Alie sent my package a little later than the deadline (with my agreement) as she had a trip to England planned and made the offer to also put some British goodies into my package. As it happens, I only had one request so most of the contents were German, but we’ll get to that.
My package arrived this morning and I immediately opened it up. Please try to ignore the fact that my photos were taken on the floor (again!) and my rug desperately needs hoovering…
I swear my penpal packages get better every month! I just hope I’m doing as good a job with the ones I send out! Here’s what Alie sent me in detail:
Tea bags! I can’t wait to try them, especially the Caramel Apple Pie ones. They sound perfect for autumn!
Apple chips. But not just any apple chips – Swabian ones 😉 A nice healthy snack for me to munch on.
Dessert items. Two Angel Delight type things that I just need to add milk to and a pack for making lemon-flavoured frosting. Yum! I think I need to do some baking soon…
Sweeties. A Double Decker, which was my one request from the UK (for some reason I really fancied one – and yes, I ripped it open as soon as I was finished photographing my goodies!)and Grün-Schnabel (Green beak) gummi sweets. I’ve never tried these, but I love Katja’s pig sweets so these are bound to be yum.
An Indian spice mix and a herbes de provence spread. Jan and I both enjoy Indian food and I can’t wait to give this spice mix a try! And I bet the spread will be good on toast or crackers.
Just how amazing is that package? I am a very lucky foodie indeed!
Alie also sent me a card, and even drew her own little stamp on the envelope. Love it!
Again, the person I was sending to doesn’t have a blog, but I took a quick photo before placing her goodies in the envelope. Here’s what I sent (this time I actually took the photo on the table, like a normal person!)
The new matches go out on Saturday, so you may be too late to sign up for September, but you can give it a try anyway. If it doesn’t work this time you’ll automatically be added to October’s list. To read the rules and sign up go here. (This is the European version, for those of you in the US/Canada, the original Foodie Penpals on The Lean Green Bean is here.)
Confuzzledom 
this is so awesome! you got some really fabulous stuff. i wish there was something similar for international things (don’t particularly want US food LOL) but that would be crazy expensive.
Yeah, I guess it would be expensive and also take a while for packages to arrive.
Oh I forgot about this yet again! I am going to sign up now. This minute. 🙂
I hope you did 😀
I’ve signed up.Just waiting for an email.x
This is so cool!!!! I love seeing what you get!!! The teas sound intriguing as do the apfel crisps!x
It’s the best idea ever!
Some of these things look very interesting. Did you enjoy the Double Decker? 🙂
Ahhh I forgot to sign up to this! Very nice haul you got there although I honestly don’t know how you can drink flavoured tea! Was the Double Decker as good as you expected?
I love fruity and herbal teas 😀
Yes, the Double Decker was exactly as good as I was expecting. Om nom nom!