Flowers by Fruit Giveaway

26 April 2011, 05:02


Mother’s Day is fast approaching! Stuck on what to get the one who brought you into this world? Thanks to the awesome people at Flowers by Fruit, one lucky ChocolateSuze reader will win this fabulous Winter Star arrangement! This sexy arrangement has a selection of white, milk & dark chocolate dipped strawberries, milk & dark chocolate dipped apples with caramel pecan nut and chocolate dipped dried figs. We’ve also got 3 runners up prizes to giveaway:


Belgian Choc Apple with Cinnamon Pecan- this is the perfect balance of apple, fine Belgian Chocolate, cinnamon and caramel pecan nuts packaged in a swish red gift box. If heaven could be described in a chocolate food experience then this would be it.


Belgian Chocolate Strawberry Box- Enjoy the wonders of individually hand dipped Belgian Chocolate strawberries. Beautiful to look at and delicious to eat, these make a gorgeous gift and come in a stylish red gift box.


Caramel Pear Box- just downright delicious with slices of pear dipped in rich caramel.

So are you ready to win your mum a delicious gift this Mother’s Day? Or you gotta do is leave a comment on this post and tell me:

What trait did you inherit from your mother?


The answer that best makes me laugh will win the Winter Star arrangement valued at $99 with 3 runners up winning 1 of the Belgian Choc Apple with Cinnamon Pecan; Belgian Chocolate Strawberry Box; or the Caramel Pear Box.

You can enter as many times as you like. Please enter a valid email address. Competition closes Wed 4th May 2011, 10am aest. Please note Flowers by Fruit don’t do Sunday deliveries so the delivery would be made on the Friday 6th May or Saturday 7th May – (before Mothers Day). Also winners/recipients MUST be located in the Sydney metro area as Flowers by Fruit currently only delivers in Sydney.


Thanks everyone for entering the comp! Flowers By Fruit have chosen our winners! Congrats to: Chau, Kerrie, secretsunday, Polly

 

 

  1. I inherited totally crazy and unmanageable hair from my mom! (Plus some fantastic qualities as well – such as a love of baking and the ability to work ahead and not procrastinate…most of the time, anyway!)

    — sara    Apr 26, 06:30 AM    #

  2. Hi suze, I’m delurking myself. Love your blog and would love to win this for my mother in law. My inherited habit is compulsive decluttering. There is a joke at home that if anyone puts something down for too long in the wrong spot it will be thrown out by me!!!

    — Shaz    Apr 26, 10:06 AM    #

  3. Hi chocolatesuze! :)
    Something I can thank my mum for are my size 11 feet :/ every time I’m out shoe shopping and I see the most cutest heels or flats, they turn out looking like shoes for a giant mutant clown when presented in my size.
    Although I can thank my mum for genetically allowing my to be a great swimmer; “flipper feet” hahaha :)

    — Roberta    Apr 26, 10:19 AM    #

  4. What I inherited from my mom is a sense of responsibility that often takes the form of worry and in her case, a hint of paranoia. I went to buy a heater the other day and texted my mom about the different types available. She replied with ‘Buy the safer one even if it’s oil’. Really mom, because I was going to ask the Harvey Norman assistant to point me to their ‘dangerous’ section so I can pick the one most likely to explode in my face.

    Still, she is adorable and I’m glad that I can be a bit of a worry wart like her too, it’s gotten me out of some tight spots!

    — secretsunday    Apr 26, 10:45 AM    #

  5. I have inherited my mothers crazy forgetfulness. Mum loved to put things away for you but when u asked her where it was, she had no idea what u were talking about. U would then go and buy replacement only for her to find it 5 years later. I am doing the same thing now- I put my husband’s stuff away then he asks where it is and I have no idea!

    — Susan tran    Apr 26, 10:54 AM    #

  6. My insatiable appetite for inappropraite foods at inappropriate times. As a child, Mum used to hide underneath her blanket just before bedtime in order to chomp her way through the family’s stash of peanut birttle. I’m currently sitting in bed having just woken up, typing this, and demolishing a bag of chocolate liquorice at the same time. Hope mum doesn’t find out…

    — Linda    Apr 26, 10:59 AM    #

  7. My ability to say the worlds blondest comments…

    — Sunny    Apr 26, 11:35 AM    #

  8. Amongst other notorious aspects which ensure that I did not gain my place in my family by adoption, I inherited my mother’s ability to stop growing height-wise at the age of fourteen. Unfortunately, what I didn’t inherit along with that was the inability to grow width-wise…

    — Lil    Apr 26, 11:51 AM    #

  9. Unfortunately I was given the same trait by my mother as my mum got from hers. A distinct lack of height!

    My grandmother is 4” 10 and married a huge German man 6” 4, they had my mother who managed to reach 5” on the dot.

    My mother married my father who is 6” 3 and they had me. I managed to reach a whopping 5“2!! A huge accomplishment for the girls in my family

    My husband is 6“6 and we have a gorgeous little girl who looks like receiving the female family trait of being height challenged.

    — Gourmetgetawayd    Apr 26, 12:21 PM    #

  10. hi suze! i love your question!
    i inherited the bad temper, big feet ( im a girl with size 11 feet), ability to make waves with our tongue xD p.s. my mum is still an awesome dancer @ 65 yrs of age, we played dance central on xbox kinect last night, both shaking our booties xD

    — milkteaxx    Apr 26, 12:30 PM    #

  11. My stomach of steel i.e. ability to eat anything & everything. God bless my Mum (:

    — PC    Apr 26, 02:00 PM    #

  12. Another lurker coming out of the woodworks for a shot at such a delicious prize :D
    I think I inherited my entire personality from my Mum, but I think I mainly got her sense of humour. We are both deeply sarcastic, half-evil creatures. For instance, a guy I fancy at work renamed Easter ‘Zombie Jesus Day’, at which we both found highly amusing. We both laugh at my stepfather’s rather offensive comments at the expense of newsreaders. (“Look at Lee-Ling! She looks like she’s emerging out of a frog’s mouth!”) We also laughed a lot together at my recent find of the Daria DVDs recently. Our favourite joke is “For your information, Daria, Brittney offered to drive Kevin so he could practice his lines.” “Did she offer to get a dainty transplant for his head so he could remember them?”
    I also inherited her love of clothes, although she loves shoes slightly more than I do. However, that didn’t stop us going halvsies in a pair of THE Manolo Blahniks from the Sex and the City movie (the blue ones – Yes, THOSE ONES). She has the coolest stuff in her closet – this morning she was wearing her dog-walking trackies around the house with a faux-fur leopard print hat on with Tony Bianco heels. One day my closet will rival hers…

    — Ophelia    Apr 26, 02:40 PM    #

  13. I would say I’ve inherited her love of cooking, baking, steaming, frying and trying new recipes and foods. We always try new recipes together and make my brothers try it all to make sure its edible. I have failed a few times, like when we were making apple cinnamon scrolls,,, and having the innards somehow get from the dough to all along the oven walls :( We still dont know how it could have happened!

    — Chau    Apr 26, 02:48 PM    #

  14. Hi Suze, chocolate/fruit = delicous and healthy! I’ve inherited from mum my need to feed everyone who walks in the door with non stop food, I think in a typically chinese way love is not spoken but shown in food :) Happy mothers day to all the mothers out there.

    — Stefanie    Apr 26, 03:04 PM    #

  15. I’ve inherited her rags(p.s i’m male)

    — Anthony Nguyen    Apr 26, 03:05 PM    #

  16. I inherited my mum’s nose! And she inherited HER nose from HER mum, so I’m expecting to pass it on to my future daughter (if I have one)

    — Lina    Apr 26, 03:13 PM    #

  17. hmmm that’s a hard one.. i don’t share a lot with my mother. people often say that we look really similar but i always deny it at the top of my lungs. we don’t share any of the same traits! ..except maybe a few psychotic behaviours, chronic neurosis and possibly the habit of gross manipulation.. but those things don’t really count :P
    the fruit-dipped chocolate basket looks f’ing amazing and although possibly not considered an ‘inherited’ trait, it’d definitely be something to share with my mother :)

    — cathy x.    Apr 26, 04:06 PM    #

  18. i am almost a 99.95% replica of my mom as she inspires me! we share the same passion for our career (even to the point of going to the same beloved uni), the love of experimenting in the kitchen, the looks, the way we talk and even the way we nag at family members! =) I love my mother – she inspires me to be someone who is loving, caring, kind, funny, bubbly, friendly, Godly and most of all, to be the best mother to my future children! =)

    — esther    Apr 26, 04:11 PM    #

  19. I inherited my mother’s wicked head-banging abilities. Thanks to both of us spending most of our teenage years rocking out in heavy metal mosh pits, we both now suffer chronic neck arthritis. But, I guess it also means I inherited her fabulous taste in music as well :D

    — KayB    Apr 26, 06:28 PM    #

  20. hey kiddo luv ya work. yeah I think the stork brought me lol but my mom is awesome and has a wicked sweet tooth so would looove this. maybe I can kinda say I inherited her thinking of everyone else before herself quality by doing this :P xx

    — Annmaree    Apr 26, 07:42 PM    #

  21. Whoa it’s a sugar frenzy, pass the ritalin. Visually inspiring.

    — gareth    Apr 26, 08:03 PM    #

  22. I’ve inherited my mum’s wok-in-face, flat asian nose that can hardly hold up our thick glasses xD

    — Ta    Apr 26, 08:58 PM    #

  23. This weird need to use every public restroom when I’m out, just in case I can’t find one later. It’s better than inheriting her snoring thats fo sho’.

    — Amy    Apr 26, 09:18 PM    #

  24. Hey Suze! Great blog! Another lurker de-lurking for the sake of a sick as mother’s day gift!! Chocolate covered fruit oughta beat my brothers idea of a singing card! Last year i did the original idea of chocolates and a mug but i think it’s time to break tradition!
    One of the traits that i’ve gotten from mum would have to be some strange foody habits habits! Like everytime we have anything remotely meaty we go CRAZIES with the soysauce! because we’re asian like that! (: Everytime we try to bake something we end up with a mutant version of the original (our recent carrot cake had shallot in it because mum thought we should take this as a chance to get rid of some veges in the fridge before they go wack), and our love for roti! We goes wacko over roti and sweetened condensed milk! Like once when my borther had camp and it was only us at home we made so much and ate so much of that heavenly stuff.

    — Polly    Apr 26, 10:22 PM    #

  25. I reckon as i’ve grown older i’ve realised that i’ve taken after my mum quite a bit! I think one of our major downfalls would have to be our lack of understanding with technology. hehehe.

    Like me and mum take ages to read instructions as to how to operate even the simplest of electronic things and most of the time we get it soooo wrong that it’s sad when you see the mess we make from putting together a simple radio; 2 screwdrivers, 5 chocolate milkshakes(2 each for me and mum and 1 for my brother who decided to chime AND NOT HELP OUT >:(, 1 misplaced screw and 3 hours later we have a brand new radio that is broken beyond repair because we can’t follow half a page of instruction. Oh that would have to be another trait! Lack of concentration and never following instructions! Like right now she’s telling me to play piano but hey i’m doing her a service by getting her a good gift! I mean come onnnn mum i could tell you didn’t like the darrell lea caramels last year! And she’s the one who’s always going ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away!!’ (even thou she only ever buys plums and oranges?) ha heres to a better mother’d day gift this year? — Polly    Apr 26, 10:33 PM    #

  26. I’ve inherited my mother’s mannerisms when she tells a lie. Every time I call a bluff or say anything that’s a bit far from the truth I get this little mouth twitch thing going on. It’s lucky that my mum hasn’t noticed this so I can tell when she’s lying the amount of chips she ate but she can’t tell when I’m lying about where the last block of chocolate went.

    — Kerrie    Apr 26, 10:33 PM    #

  27. My Teeth. Apparently I ate my mother alive during her pregnancy. She ended up loosing a few of her teeth and needed to get dentures in her 30’s. As the doctor explained I was taking a lot of the nutrients as I was a fat baby over 4kg. Needless to say, my teeth are perfect. I of course feel terrible and am still looking for a way to say sorry – I hope a display of fruit and chocolate might help me say sorry…

    — Festival Girl    Apr 26, 11:26 PM    #

  28. this is the classic that i’ve started to tell my friends recently. So I have picked up all the emotional bad habits that my dad has ie bad temper, bad mood swings etc. whereas with my mother, the traits that i have picked up are more physical, therefore the chances of changing these are virtually none. and when I say physical i mean all the medical problems she’s had since birth :) gallstones when young, smelly feet, her height, her flat chestedness…need i go on? :)

    — Audrey    Apr 27, 11:16 AM    #

  29. Points that come to mind!:

    *flat bum *baggy under eyes *tallness *boob shape *sensitivity *sweetness *humility *same eating patterns i.e. small amounts often *unfortunatly, some of the lack of brain capacity (!)

    Scary what genes are capable of!

    — katie    Apr 27, 12:07 PM    #

  30. Her metabolism. FML.

    — Christine    Apr 27, 12:15 PM    #

  31. It’s not something I like to admit, however, I believe I have inherited my mother’s compulsive shopping habbits and not to mention her lack of ability to let go of things – emotionally and physcially. i am a hoarder, I have ‘things’ from when i am 8 years old. I just hope I don’t inherit her ‘you are so fat’ syndrome when I have a daughter. Till this day.. she tells me I need to lose weight! She’s lucky I dont have some sort of eating disorder… but god bless her! love her to death.

    — Gastronomous Anonymous    Apr 27, 12:42 PM    #

  32. Wow, awesome giveaway! I may just keep it for myself if I win :p

    I inherited only a few things from my mum. Thin hair, short stature, number dyslexia, the ability to FREAK OUT over the slighest thing, and a love of good food! I think the last one makes up for all those other genetic traits.

    —xo.

    — R.    Apr 27, 01:13 PM    #

  33. I hate to admit but i believe i’ve inherited my mums crazy hot temper but also her distaste for being late! weird eh?

    =P

    — Ditzy    Apr 27, 02:05 PM    #

  34. Alright, I have NEVER!! EVER!! told anyone this in public, not even my closest friends!!! Thanks to my mum’s GREAT genes..I am ..ahem…born with a certain “deficiency”..a state of “hairlessness” in the ahem..armpit region..hence no shaving needed ever! I have told my daughters that I hope they will inherit this from me when they grow up;0) haha!

    — RL    Apr 27, 02:51 PM    #

  35. I inherited the annoying tendency to do the washing up IMMEDIATELY after soiling any dishes. When dinner finishes, I can’t help myself. My fingers start to twitch and I ignore the company I’m keeping and bounce into the kitchen to scrub at pots and pans like a maniac instead
    :(
    Ahhh.. she trained me well.

    — gc    Apr 27, 08:25 PM    #

  36. I used to think that hiding chocolates and sugary snacks in my room was just a guilty childhood pasttime – my parents didn’t like me eating too much junk food.

    … then when I was 14, I realised my mum had her own sugary stash in her glovebox! Disillusionment!

    Eating our way towards diabetes for the win xDD

    — diti    Apr 28, 03:18 AM    #

  37. Haha great question! I think I’ve inherited two of mum’s traits:
    1. Being bossy :)
    2. Major hoarder!
    I think I’m worse than mum though, I keep bits and pieces of random things from loose buttons to the safety pins they put on clothing tags! You never know when you might need them :) I can’t bear to throw anything away.. even if they’re old shoes and are no longer wearable since they’ve completely fallen apart ^^”

    — Vivian - vxdollface    Apr 28, 01:37 PM    #

  38. Her child rearing hips – those babies are gunna pop right out!

    — cutiful    Apr 28, 04:10 PM    #

  39. Her brevity.

    — Becky Kay    Apr 29, 01:23 AM    #

  40. Her great looks and ability to age well :) !

    — Crystal    Apr 29, 02:53 PM    #

  41. Her sternness with the kids but at the same time very loving and caring!

    — Margaret    Apr 29, 04:19 PM    #

  42. I inherited her selective hearing, especially when “our shows” are on!

    — Sarah    Apr 30, 08:57 PM    #

  43. my mum has this complete inability to apologise/comfort/act like a mother verbally. instead, she cooks. and i really hate it cause some times, you really need to hear it to feel it.

    and just then, i found myself baking a favourite cake in lieu of actually saying something in a situation where i really should’ve…

    — wendy    Apr 30, 11:48 PM    #

  44. eating the food we bought at the supermarket as soon as were out of it.
    yea when me and my mum go to coles we buy and as soon as we are in the car, you know it, were munching on the food we just bought :D

    — sara    May 1, 06:19 PM    #

  45. What a great idea for a bouquet. The thing I have inherited from my mum is the ability to guilt trip people into doing things. I always hate it when mum does it, but I realise I do it too…

    — Susan    May 2, 12:31 PM    #

Commenting is closed for this article.

Back to home