Working Hard

We're working, we're working!
Right about now we wish the day had more hours!
We're working hard to ship all your holiday corporate gifts! Calvin, our favorite UPS man, smiles on the outside, but we're sure he's groaning on the insides when he sees the piles outside our office door each day!
God Bless You, Calvin!

Out of gift ideas?

Need a little something for employees or customers? Texas Treats has lots to choose from. From Season's Greetings - Western Style snack mixes to Holiday Hot Cocoas coupled with fancy cookies to Holiday sugar cookies with your company logo! ... or we, can create something that will fit your specific needs!

Time to think of Christmas and that gift list! Here at Texas Treats our red, white, and blue Texas workshop is beginning to resemble Santa's North Pole factory! The elves are making beautiful Chrismas bows and taping shipping boxes that will carry your gifts all over the globe! Our shelves are stocked with freshly made holiday foods. We're ready for your calls!

Need an unusual gift idea? How about sending a taste of Texas in our new Texas Flag Tote Bag. It's filled with Texas-shaped tortilla chips and personalized salsa and queso!

Also, check out a brand new item we just put on the web today! It's a gold tub filled with delicious milk chocolate. It's perfect for any chocolate lover!

Fall in Texas

It's Fall - colored leaves are falling outside and inside we're creating beautiful Fall baskets with those same colors! We've kept the chips and salsa (after all, we are Texans!) and added Fall hot cocoas, popcorn, pumpkin and turkey-shaped cookies. The baskets are beautiful - just ask our friends at Horton Water Display!

Honor Our Veterans

The folks here at Texas Treats are so proud of our soldiers! This past Sunday, we joined with friends and family of service members to pack over 80 holiday packages bound for the USS Sampson. We are betting the soldiers feel a warm Texas hug when they open their holiday gift boxes filled with treats, letters, and personalized chips and salsa (courtesy of Texas Treats) bearing the name of their ship!

To all veterans of our wonderful country, "Thank you so much for your service and sacrifices!"

The Holidays!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Holiday preparation seems to come earlier and earlier each year! At Texas Treats, we're busy creating gifts to fit corporate budgets. After Thanksgiving, our workroom will take on the festive look of Santa's workshop complete with busy elves and holiday fluff everywhere. Our dear UPS man groans when he sees the pile of boxes outside our door each day! We LOVE it!

Are you sending a box of goodies to a soldier this holiday? Texas Treats has USPS flat rate boxes filled to the brim with snacks. Our gift to our soldiers is a red stocking filled with new white socks and holiday candy. We're stuffing one in the top of each gift headed to an APO or FPO address along with our prayers and thanks.

Company Gifts-

To our corporate friends: it's almost time to get real serious about your client gifts. Many of you know that most of Texas Treats' work is custom: folks come to us with their budget and ideas and Jackie creates something clever for the event. so, please use our website for ideas and don't hesitate to call us (972-516-3280) with your projects.

Texas Tote Bag

How about our new Texas Tote Bag? We've filled it up with personalized tortilla chips, salsa, and queso. The bag is the best!!

Open House

The annual Holiday Preview and Luncheon was held this week. Whew! Cleaning up our workroom and getting ready for company is always the hardest part! Thank you to all who came - we enjoyed visiting with you and coming up with fun ideas for your event amenities.

State Fair

The Texas State Fair is in full swing! Yesterday I was one of the judges for the annual Cheese Contest. There are four categories of entries: soups and appetizers, entrees, cheese desserts and cheese cakes. I judged cheese desserts. It was a delicious morning tasting cheese flans, cheese tortes, cheese desserts of all kinds and flavors. It was difficult to select just one winner, but we did.

Texas Treats annual holiday preview and luncheon is next week: Tuesday, October 6 and Wednesday, October 7 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. We'd love for you to stop by. We're previewing some of our holiday goodies over a casual lunch. If you are able to attend, please call us at 972-516-3280, or email at admin@texastreats.com. (Just counting food!)

Just a quick reminder - be sure to sign up for the holiday contest! Rules below.

Enjoy this gorgeous weather!!

Holiday River Rocks

Holiday Dallas Basket

Holiday Home on the Range

Texas State Fair

Welcome to Fall and Football and the Texas State Fair! For the last 6 years, I've been judging various foodie competitions at the Texas State Fair. Tomorrow I'll be one of the team of judges in the annual cheese contest -- hope I'm on the cheesecake team!

We're still adding holiday goodies to the website, so please be sure to take a peek. Don't forget to register for the $50 holiday gift basket give-away!

Deployment Pack

Taste of Home

Celebrate the Season

Contest Ending Soon!

Did you enter the Texas Treats holiday contest yet?...Can't you hear Mama saying "are you waiting for the cows to come home? Get Moving!"

We're adding holiday goodies to the website almost daily. Today we're featuring a Texas-shaped basket filled with creamy pralines and tied up with holiday ribbons. Need just a little something for a hostess gift? You might look at the plastic Texas-shaped box filled with Pecan Chews. Sending holiday greetings to an entire office? Check out the Break Room Bonanza - there's a treat for everyone!




Holiday Praline Basket



Winter Pecan Chews



Holiday Break Room Bonanza

More Holiday Items Added!

Round up some memorable holiday fun! Need a small gift? How about a jar of salsa with your client's name on the label? Or a cowboy hat filled with chips and salsa? Our Little Bit of Texas Tray is just that - little tastes of Texas.

More on personalizing Salsa and Texas shape Tortilla Chip labels:

- If you are giving your gift to an individual, put the client's name on the salsa and chip labels. Your name will be printed on the gift card.

- If your gift is headed to the company kitchen to snack on, we'll be happy to print your

company name on the chip and salsa labels. That way everyone will know who sent the

wonderful tray of goodies. Your company name and greeting is also printed on the gift card

which is tied in the ribbons.

Holiday Cowboy Hat

Little Bit of Texas Tray

Blog Contest!

Who loves a drawing? Who loves a contest? Here's your chance to win a $50 Gift Basket from Texas Treats! Ready, set, GO!

Enter the contest as many times as you like. There are several ways to enter the contest:

1. Follow Texas Treats on Twitter. Send us a message or @TexasTreats so we can count your vote!

2. Comment on our blog! At Texas Treats, we're trying to please you, our favorite people! To do that we'd like some feedback. Are you looking for any specific Texas products? If you were building your own Texas gift basket, what kinds of fun items would you include? What would you name it? Each comment entitles you to an entry!

3. Follow Texas Treats on Facebook and become a fan! We'd really like your help on this one. To have your own URL on Facebook, Texas Treats needs 100 fans. Would you please help us out?

4. Follow Texas Treats on blogger.com

Enter as often as you like. Drawing will be held September 30. We'll announce the winner with their permission, of course!

In the meantime, throughout the month of September, we'll be adding holiday goodies to this blog, as well as our website. We'd love your input, and who knows? You just might win the $50 Gift Basket!

In advance, a sincere thank you for spending time with Texas Treats and sharing your ideas with us.

We also have two new holiday products for you to look at!



Holiday Two for Texas



Holiday Spirit of Texas Gift Pack

Blog Open House!

"The weather outside is frightful"...we're talking about good ol' Texas heat of course! Let's mentally cool off and think of Christmas and those wonderful end-of-the-year holidays. Hope you don't mind, but Mama taught us to plan ahead or at least think about planning ahead!


Here at Texas Treats we're planning holiday fun for you! For the first time, we're having a Blog Holiday Open House! What??? We'll be adding new holiday gift baskets every few days to this blog as well as our website, having a contest or two just for giggles and trying to help you with your shopping! So be sure to check back often.


To get you started, enjoy 20% off your holiday order! I see you smiling! But, there are a couple rules:

• Your order must be at least $100,
• You must place your order by Sept 30 for November or December delivery,
• AND you must sign up to follow our blog and comment on it as well!

Use Coupon Code HOLBLOG2009/930 when ordering. We'd love to speak with you, so if you have questions or just want to sit a minute and chat, please don't hesitate to call us at 972-516-3280.

To kick off the open house, here are four fun Texas gifts to check out. Were betting your clients would enjoy a Texas snack! Now don't forget to use that coupon!




Holiday Austin Basket


Home For The Holidays


Season's Greetings Western Style



Holiday Taste of Texas

Thinking Ahead

Where has 2009 gone? It's Labor Day and soon will be time to start thinking ahead to those winter holidays. Retailers are closing out summer items and replacing them with holiday glitz! Yes, we agree - it's way too early for winter wonderland sights!
But Mama was a Girl Scout and told us to always "be prepared". With that, we would like to share a few holiday ideas with you. Starting next week and throughout September, Texas Treats will unveil holidy gift ideas, contests and fun!
Keep in touch - Adios!

A new school year has begun and our lives are returning to that very scheduled existence. Summer's over, but golly, is it ever hot! Why, I do believe that an egg might actually cook on the black dashboard of my car! Speaking of frying, Texas Treats offers several kinds of tortilla chips: Texas-shaped or not, lightly salted or seasoned and in various size bags. A crunch is always a good thing to take your mind off the heat!

Texas Tax Free Weekend

Texas' annual tax-free weekend is upon us and all "necessary" items are on that goodie list. You'll save a bundle! No you're probably asking yourself "why aren't Texas Treats goodies on that 'necessary' list?" Believe me, we're asking the same thing! Every REAL Texas knows that chips and salsa are a necessity!

Have fun shopping!

Dog Day's of Texas Summer

Phew! It sure has been HOT recently! Ever notice how life seems to move slower during the summer months? Schools out for the kids, people are gone on vacations in the office, and business is at a nice steady pace. Here at Texas Treats we have managed to keep busy during these slower summer days, but have also had time to have some fun in the office! Check out some of these photos of Ashleigh and myself taking a break from all of our hard work to play some cards!



Don't forget to have some fun during these HOT Texas summer days! Working would probably be a good idea too ;)

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MommyPR Contest

We have some exciting news!

MommyPR wrote a review about one of our deployment packages.

Go ahead and check it out here!

Also, there is a contest that you can enter to win our Austin Basket! Make sure you check out MommyPR and enter the contest. You will not want to miss out on this!

Supporting Our Troops!

Howdy again!

Starting later this afternoon, Texas Treats will be up and running with the Army & Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) Online Mall. The AAFES Online Mall is made up of a group of vendors who offer special products and deals to members of the armed forces so that they can experience a little "home away from home" while they are deployed. About two-thirds of the earnings from this site help to support morale, welfare, and recreation programs for those in the armed forces. Click here for more information!

If you know anyone who could use a little piece of Texas while they're deployed overseas, please pass along this new partnership information to them!

Texas Treats continues to show our support for the women and men in uniform by offering 50% off of shipping to APO/FPO addresses, for the families and friends of members of the armed forces. In order to utilize this special offer, please call us at (972) 516-3280.

Thank you again to all of our soldiers, sailors, marines, air forcemen & women, and national guards for all that you do!

Howdy, and Welcome to Our Blog!

At Texas Treats, we know how important it is to keep up with our friends, and we want you to stay in the loop with what we're up to! We've got a lot of exciting things rolling out this year, and we want you to be the first ones "in the know".


Right now, we're still recoverin' from a holiday season that was busier than a wild hog chase! In a couple of weeks, though, on February 18th, we've got our annual tradeshow, PartyFest, to go to, so we're gettin' all geared up for that, too. PartyFest is literally a big party for everyone in the event planning industry. Vendors come in from all over to showcase their wares, and Texas Treats will be right in the middle of it! Actually, right at Booth 14 to the right of the entrance, to be exact! We'd love for ya'll to come visit us, so we've included a complimentary pass for admission at the bottom of this post! Be sure to print it off and bring it with you.


Also at PartyFest this year, we'll be handing out a free sample of our newest product, which we'll be officially "unveiling" around Texas Independence Day (March 2nd). We can't let the armadillo out of the bag just yet, but for those of you who do a lot of tradeshows and sales calls, this line of products will be right up your alley! So stop by Booth 14 at PartyFest and find out what all of our hustle & bustle is about!

We can't wait to see ya'll there! In the meantime, check Texas Treats out on our website: http://www.texastreats.com/!