Gifted items.
Christmas is around the corner – well, a few more weeks left until then. This is the best time to think about your Christmas gifts. This year I’m kicking off the season with my Christmas Gift Guide with these vegan and vegetarian Christmas gifts for all the foodies!
I’ve got fantastic items coming from indie brands and small businesses, and most of them are also either eco-friendly or ethically produced – or both! I’d like to create awareness, because making conscious choices when deciding about a purchase is more possible than ever these days. We can do better, simply by making positive choices for people and planet. Money is a vote which you can use every time you go shopping. By using your spending power wisely you can help to create a better, healthier and greener world.
Opies Fruit Compotes
Festive Foodies Unite! Opies have the perfect Christmas Gifts for Home Cooks, Secret Santas & Stocking Stuffers. Hit the sweet spot this Christmas with a delicious gift! Ideal for budding chefs, secret Santas, or that relative who’s impossible to shop for. Suitable for plant based diet. They bring bold flavour to puddings, cocktails, meringues and more.
I normally bake with them or use them as pancake or waffles topping on festive weekends. I love them, I even find ways to use the compote liquid too.
3 irresistible flavours – all in luxe Luxardo® spirits and packed in big jars:
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- Black Cherries in Kirsch 570g
- Baby Pears in Amaretto 570g
- Peaches in 12‑Year‑Old Brandy 570g
Opies Fruits with Alcohol – £10.99
Barti Cream
Barti Cream, an award-winning, plant-based Welsh cream liqueur made with coconut cream and Barti’s signature seaweed-infused spiced rum. The brand’s main focus is unusual ingredients and sustainability.
The cream liqueur is silky smooth, delicately spiced and completely plant-based, making it a brilliant alternative to traditional dairy cream liqueurs this Christmas.
Barti Cream – £24.75
Boutique Gifts Prosecco & Chocolate Gift Set
Personalised gift company Boutique Gifts has something for everyone, from their Nottingham based workshops they provide a range of premium quality handmade personalised gifts. This sophisticated Prosecco and chocolate gift set is a safe bet for most people. It comes carefully packaged in a black gift box. Inside, there is a full-sized bottle of Prosecco and some delicious chocolate treats. This hamper can be sent to loved ones with a personalised gift message.
Boutique Gifts Prosecco & Chocolate Gift Set – £29.99
OGGS Festive Treats
For all the vegan foodies out there: as a long time OGGS fan, I can tell you, these cupcakes are the real thing. They are perfected to the point you won’t be even able to tell they are completely vegan. Indulgent chocolate and filled vanilla cupcakes, generously topped with rich chocolate and cream frosting and festive decorations. Such a treat!
Low-carbon ingredients, zero animal cruelty and packaging that’s kinder to the planet.
OGGS Festive Mini Vanilla Cupcakes – £3.95
OGGS Festive Chocolate Cupcakes (2 Pack) – £2.25
OGGS Chocolate Snow Cupcakes – £3.95
OGGS Mega Party Cupcakes – £7.50
We Are Coffee Co – The Around the World Coffee Collection Series Gift Pack
We Are Coffee Co, a coffee roastery delivering across the UK (based in Glasgow), small batch roasts their coffee at their SALSA certified roastery.
Around the World, three speciality single origins from Ethiopia, Brazil and Indonesia, all SCA 84+.
The Around the World Coffee Collection Series Gift Pack – £25.99
Steenbergs Organic Christmas Tea with Infuser Gift Set
Steenbergs popular Organic Christmas Tea is a loose leaf tea flavoured with organic cinnamon, organic ginger, organic clove, organic cardamom, organic orange peel and organic lemon peel. A delightfully seasonal Christmas Chai.
Steenbergs Organic Christmas Tea with Infuser Gift Set – £16
Woolf’s Kitchen Chilli Crunch Giftset
The ultimate festive gift for chilli lovers! Featuring three irresistible jars; the award-winning original Chilli Crunch Crispy Chilli Oil, bold new Black Bean Chilli Crunch and fiery new Extra Hot Chilli Crunch, it’s ideal as a stocking filler, Secret Santa surprise or foodie gift under the tree.
Woolf’s Kitchen Chilli Crunch Giftset
Fudge Kitchen Christmas Cracker
This hand made fudge selection selection contains three substantial squares of supremely creamy fudge.
All Fudge Kitchen products are gluten free, vegetarian (also many vegan items) , and contain no preservatives as well as 100% palm oil free. The fudge is made using only natural flavourings and colouring, and ingredients are sourced as locally as possible. Fudge Kitchen only uses cardboard from derived from certified sustainable forests.
Fudge Kitchen Christmas Cracker
Atlantic Distillery
Award-winning & proudly vegan distillery crating delicious drinks since 2016. Based in Cornwall, Atlantic Distillery is Soil Association-certified organic spirit producer, they make gin and vodka is distilled in traditional copper bain-marie stills, no flavourings, no additives. They use renewable energy, produced by their solar panels at the farm and partner with exclusively green energy providers to make the shortfall. They use recycled glass bottles, FSC paper not plastic labels and have done away with printed cardboard boxes.
I received this sample pack and although this set is not available for sale, please visit https://www.atlanticdistillery.co.uk/buy-organic-artisan-gin-vodka-spirits-cornwall to check out their gift products.
Play-in-Choc ToyChoc Box
This is for the little ones! This complete set of all six PLAYin CHOC® boxes from the Christmas collection make a cute stocking filler, they can even be an alternative to Christmas crackers. Includes a snowman, a cheeky elf, a friendly ginger-bread figure, a sweet tree, an adorable reindeer and, of course, Father Christmas himself. These are dairy, nut, gluten & plastic free – also Soil Association approved.
Tracklements Jolliest Festive Favourites
Tracklements believe in business as a force for good, protecting the environment as they go and have been awarded B Corp accreditation. They’re committed to make the most planet-friendly condiments possible by minimising their environmental footprint through using recyclable packaging, their own water treatment facility, and over 10,000 square feet of solar panels, which enables the company to generate 100% renewable electricity that is also fed into the national grid at weekends through Good Energy – so they are really as sustainable as it gets!
Tracklements Jolliest Festive Favourites: £11.65
Bottle Bar Shop Gingerbread Espresso Martini
The award-winning classic cocktail with a creative twist is what this festive favourite delivers. Premixed with premium vodka, cold brew coffee, and delicious gingerbread syrup, each bottle captures the essence of the Christmas in every sip. Perfect for festive gatherings, cosy nights in, or as a unique gift, this cocktail brings sophistication and seasonal cheer to your celebrations.
Bottle Bar Shop Gingerbread Espresso Martini: £25
Healthy Metal Magnesium Glycinate
The gift of a good night sleep. We can all do with that. Healthy Metal helps you unwind naturally, sleep more deeply and wake feeling restored. Magnesium glycinate supports a calmer stress response, reduces neural overactivity and enhances GABA pathways — your body’s natural “wind-down” signals. Glycine adds an additional layer of calm. Clean, vegan, made in the UK and third-party tested for purity and consistency.
One-time purchase: £39.95 for a box of 30 sachets
Subscription: £35.96 per month