The ULTIMATE Christmas Gift Guide for Foodies 2019 - Part 1
Christmas is nearly upon us, and that means it's time to think about presents! I love receiving gifts that give me a chance to indulge in gourmet food and drinks. It is Christmas after all!
Here’s part 1 of my Christmas gift guide featuring festive tipples, luxury hampers and much, much more!
Foodie Subscription Boxes
Subscription boxes are a gift that keeps giving throughout the year. uOpen is the UK’s only subscription box marketplace and is the home of brilliant subscription boxes that are approved on their quality, value for money and first-rate customer experience. It is the perfect place to find foodie gifts for all your loved ones, especially during Christmas.
For the Health Conscious Snacker - Lifebox Classic
We all have cravings from time to time and find ourselves scouring the kitchen looking for anything and everything to satisfy our post-dinner stomach itch, as I like to call it! Thankfully, Lifebox Classic provides a healthy solution to snack cravings by providing the best variety of handpicked nutritious and delicious snacks, drinks, ingredients and fabulous wellness products. All products are vegan friendly and free from ingredients containing gluten or dairy and each box contains at least 12 healthy snacks, drinks and wellness products.
Order your Lifebox Classic Subscription Gift.
For the Cocktail Enthusiast - Cocktail Club by Tipple Box
With the Tipple Box Cocktail Club all kinds of fun and tasty cocktails can be made from the comfort of the kitchen. Each box contains two curated, easy-to-follow recipes, alongside premium spirits, mixers and ingredients to create four delicious drinks. There’s also the fabulous Muddle Magazine which is full of fantastic recipes and further details of each month’s selection. This is a great box for anyone who savours the art of the cocktail.
Order your Tipple Box Cocktail Club Subscription box.
For the One with the Sweet Tooth - The Classic Cake Box
With The Classic Cake Box, each month a special someone will receive four portions of baked delicious handmade treats using the best local ingredients. Along with a combination of delectable cakes, brownies and biscuits there’s also discover taste notes and recipe cards so you can try making some of the treats at home!
Find out more about the Classic Cake Box.
For the Coffee Connoisseur - Blue Coffee Box
I know there are many like me who appreciate a good quality cup of coffee in the morning and Blue Coffee Box introduces you to unique, speciality bags of roasted coffee every month. Each month lucky subscribers receive three bags of freshly roasted coffee with tasting notes and information of the origin and farm where it is produced. Each specialty arabica coffee is ethically sourced and roasted by the UK’s best roasters. This is a subscription for anyone who loves their coffee but also for those who need to part ways with instant coffee and be introduced to flavourful fresh hand-roasted coffee.
Read more about Blue Coffee Box.
For the Spice Lover - The Spicery's Recipe Kits
The Spicery's Recipe Kits are the perfect way to discover and taste the finest spices the world has to offer. Each letter-sized box offers two carefully crafted recipe kits, packed with all the fresh spices you need to create a fantastic homemade meal for 4 people. Just add a few fresh ingredients including meat, and/or vegetables, which are all readily available at most supermarkets. From recipes like Ethiopian Doro Wat to Sri Lankan Red Curry with Coconut Sambol, it is the ultimate gift for those that love a little (or a lot!) of spice.
Find out more about Spicery’s Recipe Kits.
**To spread the Christmas cheers even further, use the code THANKS10 at checkout to claim 10% off!**
Luxury Hampers
The British Christmas Hamper from the British Hamper Company
The British Christmas Hamper is a luxury hamper that provides a fantastic ‘taste' of Britain through their carefully selected products. Housed in a beautiful box featuring iconic illustrations of living in England (rain cloud included!) the delicious products inside include Elegant & English Strawberries & Cream All Butter Biscuits, The Simply Delicious Cake Company’s Hand-Made Christmas Cake, Grate Britain Cheddar Biscuits, Cocoa Loco’s Hand-Made Milk Chocolate Christmas Santas, Mr Filbert’s Mexican Sweet Chili Mixed Nuts, and much much more.
With an incredible array of hampers to please absolutely everyone including halal, diabetic and vegan hampers, The British Hamper Company have got you covered this Christmas.
Order your hamper from the British Hamper Company.
Cumbrian Sheep Hamper Tote from Lakeland
I love trying artisanal products from around the UK and Lakeland’s exclusive Counting Sheep in Cumbrian Tote features Cumbrian made products including Triple Chocolate Fudge, Westmorland Farmhouse Chutney, Casa Blend Coffee, and Chocolate Salted Caramel Thins. It’s a fantastic hamper and perfect for that someone special who loves home-grown products. It also comes in a gorgeous reusable Counting Sheep in Cumbrian Tote featuring lovely illustrations that also teach you to count to ten in Cumbrian!
Read more about the Cumbrian Sheep Hamper.
The Classic Cheese Hamper from Pong Cheese
In the UK, cheese is consumed by more than 98% of British households and the average person eats about 10kg per year! Luckily, Pong Cheese have all types of cheeses to wow every kind of turophile (cheese lover!) Their Classic Cheese Hamper is the perfect present for the cheese lover in your life and includes a selection of artisan cheese classics like Golden Cenarth soft cheese and Cropwell Bishop Stilton, as well as Peter’s Yard Sourdough Crispbread, Cartwright & Butler’s Real Ale Chutney, all tucked inside a beautiful wicker hamper. This hamper will definitely indulge the cheese connoisseur in your life.
Order your Classic Cheese Hamper from Pong Cheese.
Festive Tipples
Hibiki Japanese Harmony Suntory Whisky
During the Winter months there’s nothing better than sitting by the crackling fireplace wrapped in a cosy blanket with a suitable tipple that will warm you from your head to your toes. For me, there’s no better tipple than whisky and Japanese distillery Suntory produce some of the finest whiskies in the world. This is a new blend of malt whiskies from the Yamazaki and Hakushu distilleries combined with grain whisky from the Chita Distillery.
This is a beautifully smooth whisky with sweet vanilla, honey tones and spice! The perfect remedy for the cold Winter months.
Order your Hibiki Japanese Harmony from 31Dover.com
Plantation XO Barbados 20th Anniversary Rum
The best rums might be from the sunny Caribbean but they are perfect during the cold wintery nights when the sun is a distant memory. The Plantation XO Barbados 20th Anniversary is an incredible rum that has exotic flavour notes including coconut, banana and mango. It’s also very smooth from being aged in bourbon barrels in Barbados before being sent to France for a secondary maturation in Cognac casks. The end result is simply a beautifully tasting rum that makes you feel as if you are on a sunny beach in the Caribbean...well, it’s the next best thing anyway. A perfect gift this Christmas for those that appreciate superior taste.
Order Plantation XO Barbados 20th Anniversary Rum from Master of Malt
Angostura Bitters
First developed as a tonic by Dr Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, a Surgeon General in Simon Bolivar's army in Venezuela, Angostura Bitters are now world-renowned for giving an "extra dimension" to a drink and can be found in high-class bars all around the world. A cocktail just isn’t a cocktail without a few dashes of Angostura Bitters, but why leave it to the professionals? Give the gift of cocktail perfection this Christmas with a bottle of Angostura Bitters for those home-made cocktail creations. No Old Fashioned is complete without it.
Order Angostura Bitters from Master of Malt
The Gin Club
Grown out of a shared belief that small, craft gin distillers & distilleries should be supported, The Gin Club is a monthly gin subscription backed by the UK’s fastest growing drinks business, 31Dover.com, that prides itself on helping gin lovers to discover new & innovative flavours of the good stuff.
Every month, a chosen gin gets boxed and delivered to Gin Club members that's either an exciting distillation available exclusively to members or a brand new flavour that members get to try first. What’s more, there are no tie-ins or membership fees and you can pause your shipment, or cancel your membership, any time you like. This is the perfect gift for any gin lover and will give them a reason to smile at the beginning of each month, guaranteed!
Order your gift subscription from The Gin Club.
Cotswolds Single Malt Whisky
Located in the gorgeous Cotswolds countryside, Cotswolds Distillery produce a fabulous range of whiskies, gins and liqueurs, and their flagship Cotswolds Single Malt Whisky is one to experience and savour. The first whisky ever distilled in the Cotswolds, it is wonderfully rich and fruity with a great balance and depth of flavour. This is a very sippable whisky and a great addition to anyone’s collection of spirits.
Order your Cotswolds Single Malt Whisky.
Akashi-Tai Japanese Sake
Akashi-Tai produce a range of true artisan sake handmade in Akashi, Japan in small batches using traditional methods and only with the highest quality, locally produced ingredients. Sake is made largely from rice and water and the fertile land around Akashi is ideal for rice-growing, and plenty of clean fresh springs supply the region with the purest water. These conditions mean it has become famous for sake and Akashi-Tai is an embodiment of this. With an extensive range including yuzu and plum flavoured sake, these gorgeous bottles would be perfect for sake lovers as well as making a great introduction for someone to enter the curious world of sake.
Mozart Chocolate Cream Liqueur
Mozart Chocolate Cream Liqueur is a unique Austrian speciality that has a decadent blend of Belgian chocolate, fresh cream and aromatic notes of vanilla and cocoa. The ingredients are used to create a wonderfully syrupy, well-rounded cream liqueur, that’s perfect simply chilled or as a great addition to a tiramisu.
Order Mozart Chocolate Cream Liqueur
Luxury Food & Hot Drinks for Pure Indulgence
Luxury Treats from King’s Fine Food
Few foods are as associated with luxury and indulgence as caviar and King’s Fine Food supply some of the finest caviar in the world. They also represent fabulous producers from across the world and any foodie would love to receive their luxury high-quality products including Orange Blossom Sicilian Honey and Sicilian Orange Biscuits from Marchesi Di San Giuliano. Spoil the foodies in your life rotten this Christmas.
Gourmet Truffle Food from Savini Tartufi
Truffle is THE definition of gourmet food and Savini Tartufi have been dealing with truffles in Tuscany for 4 generations. They sell a wide range of high quality Tuscan products featuring fresh and fragrant truffles including Truffle Crunchy Peanuts, Summer Truffle Dwarf Peaches, Parmigiano-Reggiano and Truffle Cream, and so much more. Their great range of products make perfect Christmas gifts for any indulgent foodie.
Order your delicious Savini Tartufi products.
Rococo Christmas Salted Caramel Truffle Box
Rococo Chocolates are one of my favourite chocolatiers and their signature salted caramel truffles are out of this world. Presented in a beautiful blue and white gift box and decorated with a golden Rococo dove, each of the 12 truffles has a luxuriously smooth milk chocolate shell filled with a delicate salted caramel liquid centre, which is then dusted with cocoa. These truffles are presented in a beautiful blue and white gift box, decorated with a golden Rococo dove. A beautiful gift for Christmas and one made with love (and chocolate!)
Order your Christmas Salted Caramel Truffle Box from Rococo Chocolates.
Rococo Christmas Artisan Bars & Dark Chocolate Coffee Beans
Rococo have released their Christmas Artisan Bars which capture the festive season in each bar with flavours including Gingerbread Spice, Dark Chocolate Mulled Wine, and even Gold-Frankincense & Myrrh. Each bar is unique and absolutely delicious. I also love their Dark Chocolate Coffee Beans which are rich and intense with coffee flavour. These all make perfect treats for any Christmas stocking or Secret Santa.
Order your Christmas Rococo Chocolates.
JING Classic Tea Explorer
JING source some of the finest and rarest tea leaves in the world. Their Classic Tea Explorer is a curation of their most loved classic single origin teas from across Asia. The set of 10 loose leaf tea sachets contains a perfect single serve for easy use from delicate Jasmine Silver Needle to creamy Iron Buddha. A great stocking filler for the tea lover in your life.
Order JING Classic Tea Explorer
teapigs Winter Teas
teapigs have been selling high quality tea ever since it was founded in 2006 and their Limited Edition winter teas are some of my favourites. Their Spiced Pear Tea and Gluhwein Tea literally taste and smell of Christmas and their Spiced Winter Red Tea makes you feel like it’s Christmas Day, everyday. These teas are more great stocking fillers for people that appreciate the importance of a good cup of tea.
Order your teapigs Winter Teas
Let me know which Christmas gift from my list you would most like to receive! Stay tuned for Part 2 of my ULTIMATE Christmas Gift Guide for Foodies coming soon!
Her Favourite Food x
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