2020 Gift Guide for Healthy Gifts
This year, those who are looking for holiday gifts have health top of mind. Sometimes it can be hard to find gifts that promote health in the season of perpetual eating, not sleeping, drinking more (oh who am I kidding, that’s been since March), but now more than ever we are aware of just how important underlying health is. Finding healthy gift ideas for those who are focused on overall health and wellness can be a little tricky, but we’ve put together a 2020 healthy gift guide for those who want to gift health- to someone they love or maybe even themselves. After all, the best gift of all is good health!
#1 Four Sigmatic coffees and elixers. These are a great healthy gift, offering the added health benefit of adaptogens, probiotics, or mushrooms in your cup of joe. They also offer non-caffeinated mixes full of healing mushrooms like cordycepts and lion’s mane. A perfect stocking stuffer.
#2 Glass food prep containers. Meal and food prepping is a HUGE part of healthy eating, and no tool I’ve found has made food prep easier than these glass containers. First, they are glass which is ideal for food storage vs. plastics. Second, they come with two compartments, making it easy to separate different prepped parts of meals. Third, they are square so fit perfectly in your fridge. An ideal addition to your healthy holiday gifts!
#3 Digestive teas. Teas with herbs like dandelion, ginger, cardamom, fennel, and peppermint aid in digestion and can help with gas and bloating, but are also just a comforting cup of warmness in uncertain times. Sometimes gifting someone a moment to themselves is just what they need. (Make it even more cozy with one of these cute folk art mugs from Natural Life.)
#4 Cookbooks. Another challenge with switching to healthier eating habits is figuring out what the heck to cook. So gifting cookbooks that already focus on using whole food ingredients, less refined ingredients, and still taste good can be a huge help. Here are the stars:
Practical Paleo by Diane Sanfilippo is a great book for a person looking to start on a new health journey but eat food that is still exploding with flavors.
The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters is just simply a cookbook everyone should have in their kitchen, with it’s focus on the basic simplicity of food as the star.
Small Victories is a cookbook that focuses on whole food ingredients while offering variations on each recipe to make it your own (the kimchi fried rice is a staple in our house!).
Cook Once Eat All Week is the batch cooking bible, perfect for families.
#5 Duo Diary Postpartum Journal. This one-of-a-kind journal was created for moms, by a mom. Inside this beautifully designed journal, moms will find a space for them, and a space for their baby. Meant to help moms with newborns get a handle on all the things going on with their health and their baby’s health (how many dirty diapers did the baby have?! How much water have you had today?! Are you sleeping?! Is the baby sleeping?!) this journal offers a small sense of sanity in a chaotic time.
#6 Balanced Bites Spices. These spices are the brain child of Diane Sanfilippo (mentioned above, author of Practical Paleo) who came up with her spice blends for all of her cookbooks (she also authored the popular 21 Day Sugar Detox books). The spices are the stars of her recipes, so she created the blends for sale, all organic and available for shipping. They are only available on her website, which you can purchase here.
#7 Philips SmartSleep Wake-up Light. Have you ever been woken up by a jarring sound that rouses you from a deep slumber, forcing you to start the day off groggy? If you are like most people, the answer is yes. The Phillips SmartSleep alarm wakes you up by gradually getting brighter and brighter, with warm tones mimicking the sun coming up, waking you up in a more gentle way. Yes, it really works. But just in case, there is an actual alarm or clock radio option.
#8 A gift card to a butcher. OK, this one may sound weird but hear me out: meats raised in their natural environment, eating whatever they are biologically meant to eat, are good for us. This means grass fed beef, pastured chicken, wild caught fish. There are a couple of places that specialize in these types of meats, so gift someone the gift of more Omega-3’s, more conjugated linoleic acid, and more nutrients with a gift card to a butcher like US Wellness Meats or Belcampo, both which ship nationwide.
#9 Bone Broth. Similar to the meats mentioned in #8, bone broth can be a wonderfully health promoting food, especially for gut health, hair, skin and nails thanks to the abundance of collagen and amino acids. Bone broth is different than your normal stock, so a cookbook by Bone Broth guru Marco Canora can teach the basics. Or, you can buy premade and shipped frozen from companies like Osso Good Bone Broth.
#10 Glass bottles. These glass bottles are one of those finds that you didn’t know you needed, but can’t live without. Perfect for anyone who likes to juice (or blend) at home, but they are also perfect for homemade almond milk.
While these gifts may be a bit unconventional, isn’t that what makes a great gift? This healthy gift guide is full of ideas for the health- conscious person in your life (or maybe, its you!) for this holiday season.
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