Welcome to our ‘For Foodies’ Christmas gift guide. This is a favourite gift guide for PackThePJs as we get introduced to lots of fantastic artisan brands, as well as genius foodie tech! And it’s Christmas – the season to eat, drink and be merry!
PackThePJs has scoured the internet (as we can’t go shopping) to find what we think are the best gifts for the chefs in your lives this Christmas. Enjoy x
*Contains Press Samples
VEGAN Happy Apron
VEGAN Happy is one of our new favourite brands. If you are going to be a vegan chef, then you need to make sure that the apron is a 100% animal cruelty free product. Well, this one is – as are all the clothing in the VEGAN Happy range. This apron comes in 20 different colours, and from every purchase 10% of profit goes back to help fund animal rescue. A perfect gift for foodies this Christmas.
RRP: £19.50
Teifi Coffee
Croeso i Coffi Teifi Coffee – Welcome to Teifi Coffee, an ethical coffee shop and roastery based in Llandysul in wild mid-Wales. Teifi is a charitable coffee shop that donates 50p per kg sold to charity. They source quality coffee beans from around the world and produce five premium blends that have been master roasted (in small batches) to perfection. Shwmae, can I try a Teifi Flat White please? They currently have a range of coffees available as beans, or various grounds, including their Teifi Bore Nadolig (Christmas Morning) blend. There’s also Teifi Dragon, Teifi 100% Arabica, Teifi Dim Caff (decaffeinated), Teifi Organic and Teifi Espresso. All lovingly sold in compostable packaging.
RRP: From £4.49 for 227g bag
Kikkerland 3 Blind Mice Cheese Knives
How cute are these? This is a set of three stainless steel cheese knives with rubberwood mice handles. They are quite chunky, so will definitely raise a smile over Christmas, New Year … whenever they are used really! There is a fork to hold the cheese, a wide knife to crumble hard and soft cheese, and a tear-drop blade for cutting cheddar/brie cheeses and for spreading soft cheese on crackers.
RRP: £16.99
Top Trumps Great British Bakes
We love Top Trumps cards. They are entertaining, educational and portable – and now they are bringing our favourite sweet treats to life! Find out if the Victoria Sponge is more popular than a Chocolate Cake or if a Battenberg is more festive than a Bara Brith, in this edition of Top Trumps Great British Bakes. A great gift for foodies and bakers.
RRP: £4.99
Sober Sauce – Alcohol-free Beer Taster Pack
Sober Sauce was started from a love of great beer, but a need to cut down on alcohol. Non-alcoholic beers have generally had a bad press. But, Adam, the founder of Sober Sauce went around the world tasting over 200 alcohol-free beers. He has now picked an amazing selection and can share them with you. He says “I promise you there are beers out there that taste as good as their full-strength equivalents. You just can’t find them easily!” Buy a discovery box and find the ones you like.
RRP: £19.99
Proper Goose Personalised Cake Tin
A cake tin points to only good things! This is the perfect gift for foodies and any star bakers in your household. You can keep all your delicious bakes stored safely in a wonderful personalised cake tin. Your name on the lid of the tin in big letters, what could be better? They are the perfect size to keep both cakes or any other bakes, with a handy depth of 100mm.
RRP: £25.00
Delightfully Stuffed Great British Food & Drink Map
Oh we LOVE this map! It is full-to-bursting with over 2,000 piping hot food and drink locations, with a generous drizzling of tasty trivia! This Great British Food & Drink Map will inspire foodie adventures all over the UK. You bring the crackers; we’ll bring the cheese. A full-colour, two-sided map folding out to 100 cm x 89 cm.
RRP: £14.99
Foragers Playing Cards
Talk about multi-purpose playing cards! We couldn’t decide whether to put these Foragers Playing Cards in this Foodies gift guide or our Travel Lovers guide … they should be in both! You can play regular games with these cards as they are a full set of hearts, diamonds, spades and clubs. However, in addition, each card tells you about the edibility and taste of wild plants and fungi that you can forage while out and about. There’s a selection of plants and herbs, mushrooms and fungi, nuts and seeds and berries and fruits. Even if you don’t want to play cards, just reading them is totally fascinating!
RRP: £12.32
Spiced Hazelnut, Almond & Ginger Brownies
These are amazing brownies from EK Bakery. They are warmly spiced festive brownies with toasted hazelnuts and almonds and ginger pieces, wrapped in printed paper and satin red ribbon in a gift box and sent by post. Eat them while they are fresh – they are fantastic (also recommend warming them through and serving with a blob of cream). Get your order in for Christmas. They keep for two weeks but you’ll have eaten them long before then!
RRP: £20.00
Beckfords Rum & Caramel Liqueur
A perfect gift for foodies. Back in Regency Britain, rum and toffee were two of the nation’s favourite treats enjoyed by all classes. This long-forgotten recipe from Beckford’s combines these two delicious flavours, which both originate from the same plant, into a taste sensation! To be enjoyed simply over ice, or ice cream, or mixing into your new favourite cocktail. Nothing comes close!
RRP: £25.00 for 70cl bottle
Personalised Engraved Message Heart Shaped Cheese Board
This personalised wooden cheese board from Always Personal is an ideal gift. Add a message of your choice to the top of the cheese board to make it personal and unique. It comes with a swing out compartment containing four cheese knives.
RRP: £17.95
OGGS Vegan Festive Cakes
At the beginning of 2020, PackThePJs became a vegetarian household. This has gone really well – we’re loving it – and are now debating if we’re ready to take the next step to veganism. With that in mind, OGGS sent us two of their festive products – a chocolate celebration cake, and handmade mince pies.
The Chocolate Celebration Cake is a full-size 602g chocolate cake, which is totally vegan ( no dairy, no eggs). It tastes amazing!
RRP: £6.80
OGGS Mince Pies melt in the mouth. They are crumbly deep and sweet, they go perfectly with sherry as a fantastic festive treat. They taste as good as any mince pies we’ve ever had.
RRP: £2.80
The Any Sharp Knife Sharpener
The Any Knife sharpener is a great piece of kit for the kitchen. As a gift for foodies and any budding chef it’s just right for sharpening all of their expensive knives. It sharpens hardened knives and serrated knives (e.g. bread knives, hunting knives). It has safe one handed use, with a PowerGrip suction that attaches securely to any flat surface. And it has a 2 year warranty.
RRP: £19.99
Fallen Brewing Co Discovery Pack
This discovery pack from Fallen Brewing Co contains multi-award-winning beers (including Local Motive, Odyssey, and Chew Chew) from the craft brewer based in Kippen, Stirlingshire. Expect bold flavours in every brew and a reliable focus on consistency and quality. We love the ethics adopted by Fallen Brewing Co – they brew with electricity from 100% renewable sources, their spent malt becomes cattle feed and the hops are composted. They also use recyclable materials and minimise waste whenever they can.
RRP: £35.00
Mummy Meagz Vegan Festive Chocolates
We’ve been a fan of Mummy Meagz for a long time. Their vegan chocolate tastes amazing! Two of their festive products include a Bursting Bauble and a What’s O-Stirring hot chocolate spoon.
The Bursting Bauble: A vegan festive hug in a mug. A true treat for the eyes, the chocolate bauble can be added to a mug of warm milk. There it will melt to create a luxurious hot chocolate, bursting to reveal snow-white fluffy marshmallows. These are the perfect addition to any Christmas Eve Box – simply ‘drop me, watch me, drink me’!
RRP: £1.49
What’s O-Stirring: This premium chocolate-covered spoon can be slowly stirred into hot milk for a relaxing treat, and then topped with vegan marshmallows. Named after Mummy Meagz’ favourite Barry Island-based TV show (Gavin and Stacey), and in honour of her Welsh relatives. Perfect for vegans this Christmas.
RRP: £ 1.99
See our other 2020 Christmas Gift Guides:
- Guide to the Best Advent Calendars 2020
- Christmas Gift Guide for Teenagers 2020
- Our Christmas Gift Guide For Her 2020
- Christmas Gift Guide For Him 2020
