We have a variety of experiences and gift ideas to help you and yours eat, engage, and explore Alberta’s food scene! Curated food boxes, self-guided food tours, gift certificates that never expire and more.
Quick Details
Care for someone you know. Care for someone you don’t know. Our #AlbertaCaresPackage lets you do both.
This holiday season, deliver Alberta-made goodness to loved ones across Canada, clients that you’d like to connect with and/or team members working remotely.
When your recipient opens their box they will find:
– A hand-written note with a message you’d like to share (our team puts your heart into this)
– Our Top 5 Easy-to-Make Comfort Food recipe cards with love from our kitchen to yours
– Information about the Alberta mental health programs that your purchase supports
– Six Alberta-made foods that are as good for community as they are delicious:
- A decadent, organic, Milk Chocolate Bar from Rose Bros. Coffee and Chocolate
- Crave Cookies and Cupcakes’ secret family recipe Chocolate Cake Mix (and our secret recipe for the buttercream-iest icing to go with it)
- Handmade, small batch Organic Sunflower and Flax Seed Granola from Highwood Crossing. Named by Avenue Magazine as one of the “Top 25 Things to Eat”
- The ultimate comfort food – a package of Souptacular’s Traditional Bean Soup, filled with beans grown organically in Alberta
- Ollia’s Salted Caramel Spread to add a bit of sweetness to coffee, cookies, ice cream, fruit, or someone’s day
- If cozy had a scent, it would be The Silk Road Spice Merchant’s Mulling Spices. Great in wine or cider, or you can simmer them gently on the stovetop to make your home smell warm and inviting.
Shipping or Pick-up Instructions
We can either ship, or you can pick up your #AlbertaCaresPackage. We ship the #AlbertaCaresPackage weekly on Tuesdays, November 17 through to December 15 (Please Note: December 1 is the last date we can guarantee the package will arrive in time for Christmas. Higher than normal holiday volumes and covid disruptions may affect shipping times.)
Calgary and area residents can also choose to pick up their box in NW Calgary on Tuesdays from 1pm to 6pm (the address will be provided after purchase).
For shipping to the United States or other International locations, please contact us for a custom quote.
FAQs
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The Alberta Cares box is a carefully curated collection of Alberta-made products to share and show you care. Some you can eat immediately. Some you cook to enjoy as a meal. All items are shelf stable and non-perishable. Each is an experience in itself.
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Our #AlbertaCaresPackage team practices effective hand-washing and wears protective gloves and masks while handling the goods and boxes.
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Because our partners all have different levels of production, we may occasionally need to substitute items but we’ll always do so with items of equal impact, value and deliciousness.
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Yes, we’ll happily handwrite a personal message from you to include in your #AlbertaCaresPackage.
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Please contact us with your specific destination so we can get you a custom shipping quote.
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Unfortunately, we are unable to substitute items.
The Alberta local businesses featured in the box are:
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Trevor and James Rose started their company in 2016 in Calgary with the goal of proving business can be good for the environment. Your recipient can feel good eating this creamy Milk Chocolate Bar because each bar sold means One Tree Planted.
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This Chocolate Cake Mix comes from two sisters from High River, Jodi Willoughby and Carolyne McIntyre-Jackson. They started Crave in 2004 with kindness, quality and simplicity as their core values and they donate hundreds of cupcakes every week to charitable organizations.
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In 1989, Tony and Penny Marshall started farming organically in Aldersyde, Alberta on land that’s been in Tony’s family for 100+ years. Eating this Organic Sunflower Flax Seed Granola is good for soil, food and people (that’s you!).
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Maureen and Al Obrigewitch started Souptacular in 2001 in St. Albert. The beans in this Traditional Bean Soup are grown in Alberta. We hope simmering this soup gives you that good homemade feeling when you make it.
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Owners David and Lindsay Rousseau support initiatives that increase food security and reduce food waste. Spreading this Salted Caramel Spread on everything will definitely spread joy!
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Founded in 2008, by Colin Leach and Kelci Hind, they have three Alberta locations and an online store. Sip the Mulling Spices and feel the warmth of how they quietly donate to Alberta’s food, health, art and music charities.
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AND AS A SPECIAL BONUS! Our new Alberta Food Finder game is a quest that’s part living board game, part self-guided food tour. We’ll include a coupon code for $15 off this regularly priced $45 Covid-safe activity (there will be a printed coupon supplied in your #AlbertaCaresPackage).