I love food. Like lalalaLOVE it. But I don’t really consider myself a ‘foodie’ since I probably don’t discriminate between the fancy and the trashy enough. I do however know a few legit foodies and am still pretty obsessed with the topic in general. So, I have compiled a list of the best gifts for the food lovers in your life!
Best Gifts for Foodies:
1. Food! Unfortunately wrapping a ham sandwich and leaving it under the tree doesn’t make for the best holiday gift. (Don’t ask me how I know, but I know.)
Luckily, restaurant gift cards are a great option. Listen out for a place they want to try or get them a card for their favorite restaurant. I feel like the Cheesecake Factory is always a safe bet OR a gift card to their favorite local coffee place.
2. Food tees. A fun tee shirt with a food joke or theme makes me smile.
Food tee for guys or Legalize Sugar tee for kids.
Eat now Diet Later tee for girls. Or Keep Calm and Eat Cookies.
Cold pizza for breakfast tee – not exactly a foodie’s dream meal but fun!
3. Menu Art. A friend recently redecorated their kitchen and hung antique menus from French restaurants on the walls. It looks super classy and still keeps with the kitchen theme.
4. A kitchen tool they don’t have / don’t want to buy for themselves.
Crab cracking tools – I actually got these for a friend last Christmas. She mentioned in passing that she didn’t have any ‘good’ cracking tools for crab and I remembered. When Christmas came around I bought these super awesome crackers and she loves them!
Spiralizer – make fun noodles out of veggies. This is on my list!
Stainless steel chopsticks <- I got my own chopsticks in China this year and LOVE having a ‘real’ set.
5. A fun subscription delivery.
Examples:
Golden State Fruit basket (38.49)
Wine of the month subscription. (149.00/4 months)
Beer of the month. (39.00)
Cheese of the month. (179.98/3 months)
Membership to a CSA.
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6. Cookbook. Maybe something new-to-them like a Thai food recipe book or Vegan cookbook would be a nice change from their tried and true masterpieces of the kitchen!
Thug Kitchen Cookbook (Eat like you gift a F***)
SkinnyTaste Cookbook (LOVE Gina)
Cupcakes and Cookies You Can Make and Bring To Me <- hopefully I’ll write this one day and people will deliver my own recipes to my home so I can eat them.
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7. Coupon to make them a fancy dinner or take them out for a meal. Bonus – you get to enjoy the delicious food too!
8. Food ornament!! Last year Skinny Runner got me a watermelon ornament and it’s my favorite. Here are some other great options for people obsessed with a certain food (like me):
9. A fun novelty gift of their favorite food!
I’ve seen the small Sriracha key chains all over the internet.
Donuts – Donut socks for girls / donut tee for guys or
Chocolate – HUGE chocolate bar (seen them at TJ’s) / Chocolate framed art or this friend with chocolate sign
Bacon – Bacon t-shirt / Bacon key chain / I <3 Bacon sign
Pizza charm or Pizza charm for bracelet
Check out my Holiday Gift Guide for Runners here!
Question: What restaurant would YOU want a gift card from?
I like to give a Trader Joe’s gift card along with a little gift bag of my favorite TJs snacks (and a bottle of two buck chuck, OBVIOUSLY)
I wanna say Nobu but I don’t think they do gift cards. 🙂
The Spiraliser looks pretty cool.
I want a spiralizer SOOO badly! I’m holding off on getting one until we move in January. I need more “zoodles” in my life!
So many awesome ideas on here! I like the shirts lol. The Thug Kitchen cookbook is great- I actually got that myself recently 🙂
The donut coffee mug is hilarious. I would love a gift certificate from a great steak house or a nice mexican restaurant so I can get some margaritas!!
Pretty sure I am ordered a copy of Thug Kitchen Cookbook for every member of my family.. incredible. And spiralizer!!! Thanks for reminding me to put this on my list. I think if I bought the pretzel necklace, I would try to dip it in beer cheese dip and eat it. Have a great night!!
Ha! Love it.
a spiralizer is totally on my list.
I got my foodie husband the Tripe shirt from this website last year, the shirts are super soft! http://www.flavourgallery.com/collections/womens
I also splurged and got him the Rare Beer of the Month club subscription, he totally thought it was worth it.
I want a gift card to Zoe’s Kitchen!
Food CSA is such an awesome idea. And Thug Kitchen pretty much makes my life!
I’d love to get a healthy snack monthly subscription as a gift!
I’d rather someone just threw cash at me because we all know that I’d spend it on food anyway, but this way I could go to lots of places!
my husband actually just got a gift card to Cheesecake factory from a co-worker:) I would love a gift card to whole foods or trader joes
Lucky!
I love the bacon Shirt, bacons my favourite. 🙂
I’d want a gift card from a steak house. I always crave a good steak after a long run and fulfilling that craving is the best thing in the world! (Weirdly, I don’t really like steak any other time)
I’ve read that running burst blood vessels and stuff in the bottoms of our feet and runners should make sure they’re getting enough iron. I bet your body is really intuitive!
Suddenly I’m wishing I had held on to that giant fork and spoon my Mom had on the wall in the 70s!!!
Cold pizza under the tree OR
Gift certificate for Casey Key Fish House! (Monican – you really need to check it out when in F-L-A!)
Where is this place?! I love some good seafood!!
Just wanted to add Hatchery Box to the list. I LOOOOVED my subscription but had to cancel to save money. https://hatchery.co/tasting-box/
Ooooh, I would love a few giftcards to a few of the local places here in Naples. There are a ton of restaurants on the beach but they’re all super pricey so it would be nice to get a gift there!
Cold pizza for breakfast! Yes!!!
I guess I would want a gift card to the Outback. I love their tangy tomato salad dressing. And the warm sweet bread and butter.
And if my favorite Mexican restaurant in manhattan gave gift cards I would want from there. Dos Caminos. They have the best guacamole which they make right at your table 😉