Not done with holiday shopping? No worries, I’ve done the work for you.
Forget those lame gift certificates.
Here’s a list of cool, meaningful presents that are perfect for kicking off a healthy new year.
And if you order now(like right now!), you’ll have them before Christmas and even before you light your last Hanukkah candle!
2015 Healthy Holiday Gift Guide
Slow Cooker
Wake up to a hot pot of oatmeal. Come home to a hearty chili that’s been simmering for hours. Create healing bone broths without worrying about keeping your stove’s burner going overnight.
Giving a slow cooker is like giving someone a personal chef! I use mine everyday.
Klean Kanteen
Great for that person who always carries a water bottle or worse, a plastic water bottle! We all know about the chemicals in plastic but even bpa-free bottles may now contain hormone disruptors. What’s a water drinker to do? Get them a stainless steel Klean Kanteen!
Essential Oil Diffuser
A few drops of lavender oil and this oil diffuser will make your bedroom feel like a mini spa. Great gift for a little pampering or someone who has a hard time getting a good night sleep.
Best part, Amazon offers same day shipping!
Annmarie Gianni Skincare
I've yet to try a single skincare product from this pure ingredients company that I haven’t loved. But these are my favorites for gifting: The Neroli Toning Mist (great for freshening your face without cleaning it) and the Aloe-Herb Cleanser.
Yogaglo.com gift certificate
I know I said no gift certificates this year but this one is too good to leave out.
Know someone who never has time to get to a yoga class but really needs it? This is for them. After my second child, my yoga studio days were on pause for a while. Enter my sanity, Yogaglo.com. It’s full of amazing online yoga and meditation classes. And the teachers are phenomenal!
Use this site to create a gift certificate.
Clean Slate Cookbook
Not only am I buying this for gifts, I’m buying myself one. This is the perfect cookbook to start the new year with. It’s filled with easy recipes, beautiful photos and spot-on health tips.
Cast Iron Skillet
This is for the long time cook or the newbie. Here’s why I heart cast iron skillets:
Nonstick pans are coated with chemicals that leach into your food and slowly erode your health. Cast Iron is a fantastic alternative. These weighty old-fashioned pans can go straight from the stove into the oven and they actually fortify your food with Iron…something many Americans are deficient in. It actually makes your food healthier!
Healthy Nail Polish
That noxious odor at the nail salon is exactly what it smells like, chemicals. Chemicals in nail polish often include hormone disruptors and have been linked to cancer. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give the gift of beautiful nails. Zoya nail polish is free of a lot of harsh chemicals and scores really well on Skin Deep, the Environmental Working Group’s database that rates the toxicity of cosmetics.
For more gift ideas check out my 2014 Healthy Holiday Gift Guide.