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WE WELCOME YOU WITH A BOX FULL OF KINDNESS
AND SUSTAINABLE GIFTS TO ENJOY
be kind giftbox
A BOX FULL OF KINDNESS
which gift is yours?
Be Kind
vegan - locally produced - low carbon footprint - healthy
The French Kiss Club
kiss me wine you can
we offer delicious wine in a can sourced from premium French grapes.
our fruity white wine, rosé wine, bubbly white and bubbly rosé are perfectly balanced to embrace your tongue and refresh your mind.
canned wine so fine
delicious
our 250ml cans are small enough to keep your wine chilled & large enough to hide two glasses.
sustainable
we all need to take care of our planet, our cans are made out of recyclable aluminium and should be sorted as such.
on-the-go
no need to pack a bottle opener & no risk of shattered glass. on-the-go, just like you
Belgian made in Beringen.
Redo Papers
Paper waste as raw material, paper love as fuel
At Redopapers we have a soft spot for paper. Waste paper, to be precise. That is why we only use surplus paper for our diaries, notebooks, planners, and other paper products. Not just any leftovers, by the way, but paper scraps from the highest shelf. Because to us, waste is not the end but a beginning.
In printing works, piles of paper are thrown away every day. A real pity. Because often it is beautiful paper, usable paper - paper that does not belong in the bin at all. That’s why we make it our business to turn these paper scraps and surpluses into new paper products. Handy to-do lists, sturdy bullet notebooks, well-organized weekly and monthly planners: all the pretty paper you can find on our webshop.
We love selecting surplus paper from local printing companies. Though we like to go a step further. At our partner in print, ZwartopWit, for example. With the help of advanced software, we make full use of white space and print our products directly on residual paper. This means that we recycle waste during production. Hurray for efficiency!
Belgian made in Antwerpen.
Wondr.care
What on earth are WONDR-bars?
Packed with natural ingredients, perfectly foamy and soft on your skin. No nasties, like sulphates, parabens or silicones. 100% plastic-free, cruelty-free and vegan. That’s a WONDR bar!
WONDR-bars are 100% free of plastic (and microplastics, of course). Each bar saves at least 3 to 4 plastic bottles.
No empty promises; with the help of experts, we sought (and found) the best, natural ingredients for your skin.
Thanks to the unique shape of our WONDR-bars, you enjoy skincare and massage in one. For a magical me-time moment!
Belgian made in Moerbeke -Waas.
Baru
Here at Barú we love to dream up dazzling creations. Made for people with curious minds like ours, we call them chocolates with extra.
As kids Gunther and Maarten used to love munching on marshmallows. They would go through a bag or 10 a day, more on their birthdays. But when they tried them again as adult kids they couldn't believe these used to be their favourite treats. "ghastly" said one, "absolutely delightful" said the other, by which he meant "quite horrible".
Gunther and Maarten would create many more choccy products. They invented the smallest chocolate bar in the world. So small in fact nobody was able to spot it on the shelf, let alone buy one. Left with heaps of these bars they started adding them to their hot chocolates. Now people did notice them floating around in their cups and before long they couldn't imagine their hot chocolates without them.
A trip to the Antwerp zoo inspired them to make full sized chocolate hippos, filled with salted caramel. They imagined every chocolate shop in the world would want at least two. At that point Imke and Evelien had to step in of course. "One hippo per store is surely enough" they said.
Available in our 100% Belgian giftbox en mix boxes.
Belgian made in Diepenbeek.
Generous
Some people think Céline Citron never smiles.
Well, let’s just say that she’s not easily satisfied. As long as things aren’t quite perfect, and as long as her cookies don’t have exactly the taste she wants them to have, she is way too concentrated to smile.
But late at night, when everyone’s fast asleep, and she’s still adding the finishing touches to her cookies, she takes a little bite. And then her eyes begin to twinkle, and the entire room lights up with the most beautiful of smiles.
Available in our 100% Belgian giftbox en mix boxes.
Belgian made in Tubize.
plasticfree - eu produced - natural - healthy
Glass rainbow straws
Reusable dishbrush
Ghost in a bottle
Story of Ludwig (creator of No ghost in a bottle) .
It all began when my grandmother invited me to take a sip of wine. She told me that I should hold the wine in my mouth for 10 seconds before swallowing. So I tasted it. It was a good vintage wine. My grandmother imported bottled wine and sherry. I will never forget the flavours of that period.
When I was 18, I started to pick berries with my neighbour in order to make wine. At the time, we weren’t very successful, but these trials gave me ideas for the future.
Later, at the age of 27, I bought a farm and planted 300 vines. This small vineyard quickly grew to cover 1 hectare. I also had a snail farm. They were renowned and could even be found on the menu of two-starred restaurants.
Next, I invested in the wine sector for several years as well as in others such as sleeping comfort, safety equipment, shoes, etc., although I was always a salesperson.
In 2015, I took the decision to change my career completely and launched my own business, Ghost in a Bottle. With this company, I create alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. I enjoy testing new flavours, to create new beverages or to enhance dishes.
Available in our 100% Belgian giftbox en mix boxes.
Belgian made in Hoeilaart.
The nutty farmer
The Nutty Farmer is nuts about all the good things nature has to offer. The surprising range of seasoned cashew nuts invites your taste buds on a trip around the world.
The 100% fair trade nuts are carefully cultivated by local farmers in Bobo-Dioulasso, a special place in Burkina Faso where the best cashew nuts can be found. Then they are seasoned with love and dry roasted in the oven in our own production facility. This enables us to shorten the chain and create a sustainable ‘Farmer to Market’ story. To us, fair trade is self-evident, but it is by no means a global reality. We work directly with small-scale family farmers with the goal of offering them a better future. By doing so, we try to make the world a more beautiful and sustainable place for both people and planet.
Available in our 100% Belgian giftbox en mix boxes.
Belgian made in Sint-Denijs.
Kerel
The Verbeeck - Back brewery has been around since the end of the 19th century, when it became one of the most beloved independent breweries in the northern region of Belgium.The brewery was, is and remains a family affair: no monks or big corporations in sight. The secrets of its successes were passed on from father to son until they became fathers themselves... and so on. However, the sons of the sixties-generation had other plans. In 1966, the brewery dozed off for a short nap.
When the original family brewery closed down in 1966, all of the original beers were lost. None of it was saved.
Or so people thought.
Deep down in one of the basements, covered by a pile of rubble, a single bottle of the original KEREL beer had been preserved. The glass was unbroken. The bottle cap was firmly in place. Luck? Destiny? No one wasted time on these philosophical questions. What they needed now, was the miracle of science. With the greatest of care, the bottle was whisked off and offered to a team of Belgian experts and university scholars to analyze and extract the original KEREL yeast DNA.
Think about how special that is.
Not only is every bottle of KEREL you’re holding today rooted in a tradition that goes back several centuries. This is a beer that has survived against all odds. It was left behind, abandoned to become part of the past. It was never meant to survive. But it did. Somehow, it came back stronger than ever, bringing its full flavours and strengths into a new age.
Available in our 100% Belgian giftbox en mix boxes.
Belgian made in Tielrode.
Ferm kombucha
Ferm is a premium fermented kombucha tea.
Brewed with natural and organic ingredients. Low in sugar, alcohol-free.
FERM stands for different things. It comes from “Fermentation” but also has a Dutch link meaning ‘good’ and ‘strong’. The company was founded by Wouter who had long been a restaurant manager and chef. Since the early teens, customers were increasingly asking for low sugar alternatives and alcohol free options.
Fermentation became a fad a decade ago. Sauerkraut, which has a thousand year history in the Northern hemisphere, was revived. Kimchi, the Korean fermented cabbage, ginger beers and water kefirs, they all resurfaced. Merits go to a very large part to American fermentation enthousiast Sandor Katz. His “The Art of Fermentation” is already a classic in culinary circles.
Wouter took a deep dive in the world of fermentation. A few years later he resurfaced. With a lightly effervescent and mildly sour bottle. It smelled like lambic beer, though tasted like nothing other. Kombucha wasn’t invented in the West. It probably originated thousands of years ago in a forgotten jar of sweet tea. Airborne yeasts and bacteria colonised the batch and transformed it into something completely different, sour, vinegary.
For the longest time that’s also what kombucha was, vinegar’s smelly cousin. Until a young man called GT Dave from Bel Air decided to start some experiments in the late 90’s.
We can’t know for sure of course. But it’s definitely possible that we wouldn’t have the current billion dollar kombucha industry without GT Dave. He took the ancient drink and transformed it the delicious drink you now find in many restaurants and shops around the world.
It took a while for popular kombucha flavours to cross the Atlantic. In 2016 we finally launched our first drinks in the Belgian market. Wouter, armed with a flavour development background took the brewing activities out of his home kitchen to a full scale brewery. Pascal, joined the team and went from restaurant to bars and anyone brave enough to try this new old thing out. And Kester, he made sure they didn’t go bankrupt!
At the time of writing, FERM Kombucha is one of the fastest growing kombucha businesses in Europe and there’s no end in sight!
Available in our 100% Belgian giftbox en mix boxes.
Belgian made in Bruges.
MISSION @RIVER CLEANUP
RIVER CLEANUP has a beautiful mission & we are proud to introduce our partnership .
With every BE KIND GIFTBOX sold, we donate €1. This donation contributes to the wide setup they have around the world & helps them cleaning up waste out of our rivers & riverbanks.
Their mission is to stop plastic before it can reach our oceans. Together, they aim to collect 100 000 000 kg of river plastics by 2025 and activate people in the fight against plastic pollution!
So if you choose a BE KIND GIFTBOX, you automatically contribute to a higher purpose as well. Check below & have a look at what this great Belgian non-profit organisation has up his sleeves.
every
be kind giftbox sold
1 kilo plastic recoverd by rivercleanup
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to spread the sustainable message as much as possible by offering businesses the best sustainable gifts there are.
Choosing a 100% sustainable giftbox is the best way to show your netwerk your commitment towards sustainability. It will strengthen your core sustainble values. This gift will also inspire your netwerk to tryout new plasticfree alternatives for household & on the go.
Gifting a box filled with 100% Belgian food & drinks will boost our local economy & support local small business & start-ups. Don't forget that buying local lowers our global ecological footprint by reducing CO2 in the air.
ABOUT ME
As a plantbased chef for Lovelly.vegan & inspirational blogster & founder of Løv | Elly eco -lifestye shop, I inpire people to take their first steps towards a more sustainable lifestyle. Teaching people how to switch to a more plantbased diet is one of my favourites things to do. Is it a cooking class or a teambuilding at work, or maybe a priviate workshop with friends in my kitchen. I'll guide you with my creative skills & plantbased knowledge & teach you how to introduce more plants in your daily diet.
Check my website www.lovellyvegan.com if you are interested to learn about a plantbased lifestyle.
Two years ago I started my first webshop www.lovelly.be. An eco lifestyle shop where you easily can shop your first plasticfree household items. Are you willing to gradually switch to a more plasticfree living? Have a look at my preselected products & get started.
Hope to see you soon!