Here's a great gift guide for the healthy food and wine lovers in your life, along with unique travel and wellness items. Holidays or birthdays, this mindful gift guide has something for everyone.

Whether you're buying Christmas gifts or birthday or graduation presents, here's a gift giving guide for the food, wine, travel and wellness warriors in your life.

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Food Lover Gifts

Pressure Cooker

I spend a lot of time in my kitchen so I'm always looking for products that make cooking easier and don't just take up space on the counter for once a year use. My InstantPot has become a favorite in the one short year I've had it. My recipes for chili lime chicken thighs and coconut curry sea bass were super simple using this device. Roasts, steamed vegetables, and stock are huge time-savers with the InstantPot.

Blenders

I also don't go more than a few days without using my Vitamix. My cauliflower soup is velvety smooth after a spin in here. Some people love the Blendtec just as much for the same powerful blending action.

I usually make a 3 day batch of smoothies in my Vitamix, and then store them in glass mason jars. Each morning I pull a smoothie jar out, add some collagen protein for great-looking skin, and a little Brain Octane Oil for brain clarity, and blend in my smaller NutriBullet. My morning is set. The NutriBullet is good for pesto, dressing, and quick chops. An added bonus is that the cup is dishwasher safe.

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Healthy Cookware

As far as cooking goes, I make sure to use environmentally-friendly pans. No use buying organic ingredients and cooking healthy recipes if you're just going to cook them in a pan that gives off chemicals. I've been really happy with Xtrema Cookware. Their cookware is ceramic and great for high temperatures with no issues with toxins getting into your food.

Le Creuset Dishes

Then there's Le Creuset. Their pots and pans don't have any leaching problems, and they're simply gorgeous. I bought my first one (a big red Dutch Oven) while living in Paris. It served as my oven, since I didn't have one! I love it to this day.

Baking Mat

When roasting vegetables, my baking sheets are never without a Silpat. Clean up is super easy, and it also saves the finish on the pans. These roll up nicely, making for great stocking stuffers.

Healthy Food Delivery

For the gift that keeps on giving, try giving some healthy food to loved ones.

Vital Choice is great for fresh fish and they have nice gift packages as well. I love their salmon and cod.

US Wellness Meats is a great option for quality protein. They have grass-fed, sustainably raised, 100% grass-fed, and finished beef. And of course, you’re not going to find any antibiotics, hormones, or GMO feed in the products you buy at US Wellness Meats.

Butcher Box is another good option for humanely raised meat without added hormones or antibiotics. They do online monthly deliveries but you can pause and re-start as you like. A great gift for students!

Meal Kit Delivery

If you’d like to send someone a meal kit with all the ingredients, there are now many healthy options.

Fresh ‘N Lean offers organic, fully cooked, chef-prepared meals delivered to your doorstep. You can get gluten free, dairy free, and there’s no GMOs or added sugar or artificial flavors.

Fresh ‘N Lean uses locally grown, in-season ingredients and BPA-free containers to keep the chemicals out.

Choose from Keto, Paleo, Vegan, and Low Carb meals. The meals arrive fresh so all you need to do is heat and eat!

Hello Fresh is a meal kit delivery program with chef-created dishes. You don’t have to lock into a regular delivery commitment if you don’t want to, but you can mix and match and pick your favorite dishes based on meat and veggies or low calorie or family-friendly. It’s all customizable.

You’re sent the ingredients for dishes you choose, and then you play chef in the kitchen with the enclosed recipes.

Purple Carrot is a plant-based meal delivery service. You can order any meal of the day, including snacks to arrive at your doorstep.

Choose from quick and easy, high-protein, gluten free, or chef’s choice. Meals come in 2 or 4 servings. Even if you’re one person, who doesn’t love leftovers?

At Chef’s Plate you pick out which meal plan you’d like from one of their four options. Each features seasonal, farm-fresh ingredients.

You can personalize your meal plan for family, 15-minute or vegetarian options. You can also get meat or seafood. Choose from 2 to 4 recipes each week.

Everything is delivered to you and can be prepared in 30-minutes or less. Get 50% off your first order here. Easy and healthy delivery options!

Healthy Mind Body Gifts

One-on-one Health Coaching

Are you or someone in your life struggling with your health or diet? Are you eating the same things and exercising in the same ways, but still gaining weight? Are you sleeping less and stressing more?

Unfortunately, as we age, our metabolism slows down and the needs of our body changes.

As a Certified Transformational Health & Life Coach, I help people age with energy and feel better in their bodies. Learn more about how we can work together here.

Fitness Classes

Class Pass – do you find the gym uninspiring and get bored doing the same class all the time like I do? I have exercise ADD. I love a range of different classes and teachers to keep my workout and me fresh and inspired.

That’s why I love Classpass. I pay one monthly fee and get to choose from hundreds of unique classes at different studios near me. Yoga, barre, and pilates are my staples, but I’ve also tried some fun dance classes and a trampoline sculpt class. Jumping on a trampoline is my version of a good exercise time. It’s a great gift for you or a loved one!

Use this link to try ClassPass and get 20 bonus points free.

Meditation

Bring a little quiet and calm to you, and everyone around you, with a regular meditation practice. For many people sitting and quieting the mind is a very difficult task. (You can check out some of my meditation tips here).

Meditation apps can be helpful with starting a practice, as well as keeping one going. Most apps have a free trial and then you can buy monthly subscriptions from there. The bigger meditation apps include Headspace, Calm, and the Insight Timer. The Insight Timer is my go-to app, and it has many great free features that will help you and any loved ones remain cool and balanced during the holidays or your average Tuesday!

Give the Gift of Giving

Make a Donation

Perhaps you'd like to give a gift to someone in need. Chef Jose Andres has played a huge role in helping to serve meals to people in need. He’s served over one million meals to people helping or affected by fires, floods, and other emergency situations. If you'd like to donate to his worthwhile organization, you can read more here, World Central Kitchen.

I also really like the Dress for Success organization. Their mission is to “empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and the development tools to help women thrive in work and in life.”

You can donate clothes, money, or support skills to this worthwhile organization.

Wine Lover Gifts

Organic, Natural Wine

I've definitely cut back on my drinking since I've become a nutrition coach, but I have not eliminated it. It just tastes so good with food, and everything in moderation, right? When I do drink, I try and watch the sugar and additives that get added, just like food. Dry Farm Wines is a really good company that works with vintners who only use traditional, organic, and natural winemaking methods. The wines are organic, additive free and sugar-free, which is a super win-win-win.

Amanda Thomson, founder of Thomson & Scott, also wanted to watch what people were putting in their drinks so she created vegan sparkling wines with reduced sugar. The Skinny Prosecco is 100% organic with less than 7 grams of sugar per liter - that’s nearly half the amount of sugar of traditional Prosecco. The Thomson & Scott Skinny Champagne has less than .1 grams of sugar per liter, and a rose sparkler keeps the sugar below 6 grams per liter. Now that’s cause for celebration!

Sulfite Reducer Drops

If you already have a huge collection of wine, like me, then you might want to try Just The Wine. These are drops that reduce the sulfites in your wine. Just three drops can reduce the sulfites up up to 80% or more. Try it in your red wine, white wine, or even champagne.

Coravin Wine Opener and Sealer

There's also another way to stay healthier when it comes to drinking - drink less! I know it's not always easy - for many reasons - including the one where you spent a lot of money, and don't want the wine to go bad after opening the bottle. Instead of needing to finish the entire bottle, you can use Coravin. It has a thin needle that pierces the cork to allow wine out while keeping oxygen in. It can keep your wine tasting good for weeks, months or even years after you open it.

Travel Lover Gifts

AirBnB Gift Certificate

Airbnb is my new favorite way to travel. It feels like a more authentic experience in the city I'm visiting. I used Airbnb while I was in Cuba and loved it. The owners offered to cook for us, they helped us to get around, and were there as little or as much as we wanted. If you've never tried Airbnb, click here, and you'll get $40 in travel credit when you sign up. Travel is always a great gift!

Chemical Free Candles

And if you're staying in an Airbnb or a hotel, I think travel candles always make a great item to include in your bag. They rid the air of any unwanted smells and create a nice, cozy atmosphere.

Be sure to look for eco-friendly soy or beeswax candles. You don’t want to add toxins to the air while you’re trying to include a nice scent.

Travel Bonuses

How much would you love to open a certificate for free travel? That’s one of my favorite gifts. Hotels.com offers gift cards that you can give.

Plane travel can be such a drag. I’m a total head flopper when I travel long distances, which isn’t great news for my seatmate. That’s why a travel pillow is a must.

Lifestraw is also great for filling your water bottle and protecting yourself against bacteria, parasites and micro plastics.

If you want to bring some of those travel memories home with you, and why wouldn’t you, make sure you capture it.

I love my Lumix DMC-ZS100. It's got many of the same features as a DSLR with a fabulous Leica lens and 4K video, but it fits in your pocket and takes amazing photos. Most of my travel pics were taken with my Lumix.

I hope you have some great ideas now for a loved one, or even yourself, to enjoy a holiday, birthday or anniversary!