The 26 Best Food Gifts You Can Order Online, Right This Minute
The best kind of present is one that you can eat, of course. Whether it’s a birthday cake for your sister, a gourmet popcorn tin for your cinephile coworker or a bottle of red that your best friend will love, leaving something delicious on someone’s doorstep is definitely a good idea. And what better time to play Santa than right now? Here are the best food gifts to order right this minute.
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1. Milk Bar’s The Sweet Spot
This variety pack from Milk Bar comes with a dozen B’Day Truffles, six creative cookies (we’re talking blueberry cream and cornflake chocolate chip marshmallow) and their famous Milk Bar Pie. We’re pretty sure anyone would be happy to receive this in the mail, but it’s especially fitting for birthdays or a celebration you won’t be able to attend in person.
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2. Mouth’s All the Snacks Gift Box
Here’s a present for the serious snacker in your life, whether it’s your popcorn-obsessed partner or that one friend who always has a few munchies in her purse. It includes a whopping selection of 16 snacks, ranging from cracked pepper turkey jerky to vegan raspberry gummy fish and even habanero-cayenne pistachios.
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3. Murray’s Holiday Feast Deluxe
Grazing board, anyone? Bust out the fancy cheese plate and deck the halls with this holiday-ready spread. It includes three cheeses—Stilton, Gruyère and Selles-Sur-Cher—plus tart cranberry orange preserves, sopressata, prosciutto, dried cherries, two types of crackers and Castelvetrano olives (whew!). Sure, it’s ideal for an aspiring cheese monger, but also for anyone who’s ready to feast on some festive fromage.
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4. Candy Club Gift Box
Candy fanatics often belong to one of two camps: all about sweet or dedicated to anything sour. This brand caters to both teams with rotating gift boxes (choose Mostly Sweets or Mostly Sours) packed with six signature candies each. That includes everything from Gummi Unicorns to Sour Pink Cadillacs to stackable cupcake gummies. If you’re the one with a sweet tooth that just won’t quit, we won’t blame you for signing up for a tailor-made subscription box all for yourself.
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5. Winc Subscription Box
Your picky aunt is one six-question quiz away from four bottles of vino she’s basically guaranteed to love. And if they don’t meet her, ahem, particular preferences, that’s not a problem at all. In fact, Winc will replace it with bottles she does like. A membership with this California winery provides access to exclusive vintages created and curated by Winc, all with sustainability in mind. We’ll drink to that.
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6. Omsom’s The Omsom Bundle
Gift your fave cooking aficionado with one the most flavorful meals of their gosh darn life thanks to Omsom. Founded by sisters Kim and Vanessa Pham, the company is all about making flavorful, super-authentic Asian dishes attainable to home cooks who might not have the spices on hand or access to the harder-to-source ingredients required. This bundle includes the full East Asian line (Japanese Yuzu Misoyaki, Korean Spicy Bulgogi and Chinese Mala Salad) and the full Southeast Asian line (Vietnamese Lemongrass BBQ, Thai Larb and Filipino Sisig) in one set.
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7. Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams Pint Club
If we’re being honest, we think this might be the one gift that any person on your list would appreciate (…including yourself). The club perks include four assorted pints of Columbus, Ohio-based Jeni’s ice cream delivered four times a year. As for the flavor selection, we’re talking everything from gooey butter cake to frosé sorbet and even dairy-free cold brew with coconut cream. FYI, Jeni’s is PureWow’s top pick for the best vanilla ice cream.
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8. Atlas Coffee Club Coffee Lover 12-Month Gift Subscription
While you can’t give the gift of brewing a fresh pot of coffee for your pal every morning, you can sign them up for a rotating selection of beans curated from around the world. Which is almost as good. Each month brings a new bag of freshly roasted, single origin coffee beans, with the option to choose between whole or ground and light or dark.
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9. Pineapple Collaborative The Olive Oil
Pineapple Collaborative is a women-founded food company that hosts community events and also sells a really delicious extra-virgin olive oil. It’s California-grown, organic and made by women—not to mention, it comes in an artfully designed 500-millileter tin that will look so cute on their countertop. Gift it to your buddy who sounds like Ina Garten with their talk of “good olive oil.” (For what it’s worth, they also have an excellent apple cider vinegar.)
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10. Craft Beer Club Subscription
10. Craft Beer Club Subscription
Whether they’re always ordering IPAs or are “really into sour beer right now,” a Craft Beer Club subscription is sure to please the brew-lover in your life. Each box contains selections from two different small-production breweries from different regions in the U.S., and the offerings change each month. It also includes tasting notes for each beer as well as beer trivia (because why the heck not?).
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11. Popcornopolis 12-Cone Popcorn Gift Basket
You’re about to upgrade your BFF’s movie night. While logging onto Netflix, she’ll get to dig into a dozen popcorn flavors of your choosing—and, just a heads up, it may take you a while to decide. Options range from almond caramel and jalapeño cheddar to red velvet and hot cocoa marshmallow.
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12. Mouth’s Peck of Pickles
We all have that one pickle-obsessed friend, right? (If you don’t, you probably are that friend.) Lucky for them, this basket is fully loaded with five jars of artisanal, small-batch pickles. They’ll love snacking on sweet pickle chips, habanero-horseradish dills, pickled string beans, deli-style garlic dill halves and more. All that’s missing? A sandwich.
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13. Snap Kitchen
So many of us want to eat healthier but don’t have the time to cook fancy dinners every day. Enter Snap Kitchen, a meal delivery service that makes it as easy as opening a box and popping your food in the microwave. There are tons of dietary preferences to choose from (Paleo! Low-carb! Whole30!) but all of the meals are clean and good for you. Chicken butternut macaroni, anyone?
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14. Sun Basket Subscription
Inspire an aspiring (or beginner) cook with wholesome meal kits from Sun Basket or give a general gift card, so they can pick what they’ll have delivered. And if the person you want to surprise would love nothing more than not having to make dinner, go for the oven-ready dishes instead. FYI, $200 will cover two weeks of Sun Basket for two people (or three recipes per week).
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15. The Chili Lab Homemade Hot Sauce Kit
Help your spice-loving work wife go from hot sauce collector to sauce boss with this easy project. It comes with two distinct spice blends—one smoky and one citrusy—and all the tools needed to ferment their own spicy blends. They bring the peppers, this kit will bring the heat.
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16. Shaker & Spoon Cocktail Subscription Box
You know that one friend who loves playing mixologist every time you come over? Get them a Shaker & Spoon subscription and they’ll be thanking you, big time. It’s the most reviewed cocktail box on Cratejoy and makes hosting a breeze. Each month features a different liquor and includes everything you need to make 12 seasonal drinks from three unique recipes. Cheers to that.
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17. Olympia Provisions Salami Bouquet
While a bouquet of flowers is certainly thoughtful, your meat-loving uncle will appreciate this kind of bouquet so much more. Choose from a bundle of three “stems” (including one each of French, Spanish and Italian salami) or six (two Italian, two French, one Spanish and one Greek), all wrapped up in butcher paper and a bow. Even better, salami is technically shelf stable, so none of it will go to waste.
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18. Wild Alaskan Company Fish Subscription Box
Finding a reputable fish market is difficult enough; finding quality fish that’s sourced sustainably is even harder. Wild Alaskan Company removes all that guesswork—choose from salmon, white fish or a combination plan, and it will be delivered to your door on dry ice at the frequency you choose. Gift it to your friend, dad, brother…or anyone who’s skeptical about the salmon at their local grocery store.
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19. Adopt a Beehive Gift Box
Are we encouraging you to save the bees? Yes, yes we are. This set supports small-scale family farmers in Puglia, Italy, who are using sustainable and organic methods to harvest the tastiest honey possible. The gift box will arrive with two seasonal jars of that aforementioned liquid gold, plus a tea towel and a sweet certificate of adoption with the number of your hive and date of harvest.
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20. Williams Sonoma x Flour Shop Rainbow Explosion Cake Kit
You’ve seen this viral rainbow surprise cake all over your timeline. Now you can take a crack at it yourself. It’s the real deal too—New York City’s Flour Shop was involved in crafting the kit, from the cake mix to the color gels to the frosting mix. It also includes polka dot and rainbow explosion sprinkles, but feel free to go rogue with whatever treats you find in your pantry.
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21. Stone Hollow Farmstead Farm-to-Table Bloody Mary Mix
It’s time to upgrade their cocktail game from boring canned tomato juice. Each of these gourmet Bloody Mary mixes are prepared using fresh, local ingredients by a family-run farm outside Birmingham, Alabama. Choose from seven varieties (like the OG Ordinary Mary and peach-based Sweet Mary) and pair it with a bottle of vodka, to up the ante.
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22. Chicago Steak Company Best Seller Assortment
We’re predicting a barbecue in someone’s future. With top sirloin, filet mignon, lobster tail, ribeye and boneless strip steaks, there’s a cut for every meat-eater in this box. All the steaks are aged four to six weeks and graded top one-third USDA Choice or higher. Your family’s resident grill master will be psyched.
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23. Burlap & Barrel Chef’s Choice Spice Collection
We’ll let you in on a secret: We’re kind of obsessed with Burlap & Barrel’s single-origin spices, probably because they’re some the most flavorful seasonings we’ve ever tasted. Any foodie will appreciate the chef’s collection, which includes buffalo ginger, wild mountain cumin, Purple Stripe garlic, ground black lime, royal cinnamon and new harvest turmeric.
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24. Williams Sonoma Pie Baker’s Dream Set
This gift set will elevate anyone’s pastry game to new heights. It includes an Emile Henry ruffle-edged pie dish, a rolling pin, pastry cutter, pastry blender, pastry mat and pie weights (aka everything they’ll need to whip up a pro-level dessert). Gift it with a copy of Erin McDowell’s The Book on Pie, for major bonus points.
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25. The Caker Flourless Dark Chocolate Gold Leaf Cake Kit
A chic shortcut for your favorite sweet tooth? Sounds like a genius idea to us. These cake mixes—from New Zealand-based cake company The Caker—each arrive with everything you need to create a gorgeous cake from, well…you can just say it’s from scratch because it looks and tastes that good. The included gold leaf accent is just the cherry on top.
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26. Godiva Assorted Chocolate Gold 70-Piece Gift Box
You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn’t want a little chocolate for the holidays. Gift them more than a little with this extravagant 70-piece box of assorted Godiva chocolates. Don’t worry: There are milk, dark and white varieties to please any recipient (and all sorts of fillings, too).
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