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Our Ultimate Vegan Gift Guide for the Holiday Season

Everyone has a vegan or vegetarian friend or family member that they may not be sure how to feed or purchase gifts for.

As 3-year-ish vegan myself, I have put together a list of stuff I’d be delighted to receive. These gifts are great for vegans, vegetarians, and carnivores alike. 

Have a compassionate holiday season, everyone!

1. Eat Like You Give a Damn: Herbivore Shirt

Tanks, tees, and more. By Herbivore Clothing. Buy it here.

2. A Vegan Meat & Cheese Sampler box from The Herbivorous Butcher

Guy Fieri approved of this place, and the author can testify that this sh*t is amazing. Order one of their boxes here

3. Minimalist Baker Everyday Cooking Cookbook

The vegan queen delivered big time in her gorgeous print cookbook, available here

4. A Faux Leather Bag or Backpack from Matt & Nat

Compassion has never looked so stylish. Order here

5. A snack box subscription to Vegan Cuts

Vegan snack and beauty box deliveries. Available here.

6. Vegan shoes or boots from MooShoes

Even the name is fun. Order here.

7. A DIY Vegan Gift Pack from Trader Joe’s

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Katherine Baker

TJs has a boat-load of vegan and coincidentally vegan snacks and treats (for a comprehensive list, see this article). And most of their beauty products are vegan, too. 

8. A Vegan Ice Cream Pack from Van Leeuwen

This is the gold standard for vegan (and non-vegan) ice cream anywhere ever period. Order here and make someone extremely happy.

9. Chloe’s Kitchen Cookbook

The vegan fast-food queen, Chloe Coscarelli, has several cookbooks. From Italian foods to baked goods, all of your favorites have been perfected and veganized by Chef Chloe. Order a cookbook here, and dream in beet ketchup.

10. Beauty and Skincare from Pangea Organics

High-quality vegan and gluten-free beauty products, available here.

11. A Vegan Chocolate Gift Basket from Lake Champlain Chocolates

Two words for their chocolates: so. good. Order a box here

12. A “Plnt Bsd” hat from PLNT BSD

Sah cute. Order up, hur

13. A giftcard to Lush Cosmetics

All vegan errthang. Lush is a skincare lover’s vegan dream. Order here

14. Oh She Glows Cookbook

Another vegan cookbook staple. Order here

15. e.l.f. cosmetics

Super fun, inexpensive, and cruelty-free cosmetics. Extra rad: you can get them at Target and Ulta.   

16. Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health

For some reading and recipes. Order here.

17. An ASPCA Donation in their name/honor

They’ll get mega-feels, and you will too. Click here to #savedapiggies.

Katherine has been involved with Spoon since the early days of the NYU chapter. She continued to write for Spoon while earning her master's degree in human nutrition at Columbia University and authored the Spoon Guide to Healthier 2016. Katherine likes to avoid wearing real pants, hanging out with her rescue pup Millie, drinking iced coffee in all 4 seasons, and baking vegan treats (yes, Baker is her last name). Katherine is now a student at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and learns about how climate change impacts human health and nutrition (#school5ever). Hit her up on Insta (@katherinebaker4) and kbaked.com for more #relatablecontent.