Gifts for Parents or Adults Who Love to Cook

Gift something increasingly original than last year with these food-themed ideas and gifts for parents or sultana family members and friends.

Looking for a holiday souvenir for the PTA mom who works full-time and cooks for the whole family? Or the watchdog who keeps your family functioning while putting in crazy hours studying every night for her next higher exam? What well-nigh the mom or dad who unchangingly hosts the play dates? Or, anyone you venerate considering we’ve all got a lot on our “plate” and can use increasingly time! (If you’ve once bought for the adults in your life, trammels out our holiday gifts for kids and teens, or gifts for family foodies.

It’s time to end the scrambling for last-minute gifts! Regardless of whether your recipient is a defended “foodie” or someone who has never turned on their stove, there are many creative ways to souvenir them a fun and useful present that they can enjoy for years to come. From the most popular cooking and sultry tools to nutrition and recipe books, this food-focused souvenir guide can help you segregate a present that matches the lifestyle of any sultana in your life. Weightier of all, these affordable items are health-promoting so you can requite the souvenir of deliciousness and healthy nourishment for the holidays. How heroic of you!

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Why requite a food-focused gift

Cooking is the weightier way to ensure healthy eating and happens to be a very fun hobby anyone can enjoy! If you know someone who is whence this new healthy habit, a kitchen tool can be the perfect souvenir to help them. At the same time, a new kitchen gadget like herb wearing scissors* or a cooking resource can be a fun way to alimony things “fresh” in the kitchen and excite plane a seasoned cook.

CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) share or produce wordage subscription

Sign them up for at-home wordage of fresh produce (you can segregate just a month or two, or plane a whole year) to help with grocery shopping! You can likely find a CSA program near their home that they can wilt a part of, and you can requite them a souvenir document for the yearly or seasonal cost!

Fruit basket delivery

Many local farms will unhook fresh seasonal fruit, jams, olive oils, or other specialty items for the holidays. When the holiday season gets super busy, they’ll have healthy and tasty snacks to reach for!

A homemade confection mix or flipside baked good mix in a jar

Combine all of the dry ingredients for your favorite baked good in a quart-sized mason jar and print up the recipe on a cute piece of paper. Next time someone has a last-minute torch sale or potluck to attend, you’ve got them covered!

Magazine subscriptions to cooking or food-related magazines

You’ll be helping them think of healthy recipes, cooking inspiration, and tips!

An instant pot, slow cooker, or pressure cooker

Cut their cooking time in half or increasingly with these wondrous machines that make batch cooking a breeze. The instant pot*, slow cooker, and pressure cooker are all hands-free, are easy to wipe up, and make it easy to create big portions to freeze or serve the whole family.

A homemade cookbook

Create a compilation of favorite family recipes or plane five of your favorite homemade recipes. It will be special and put to good use if printed on nice paper in color. Gifts for parents don’t have to be complicated!

A supplies vacuum sealer

Help your souvenir recipient store fresh foods without freezer shrivel or waste; vacuum sealing preserves foods so they can cut lanugo on cooking and shopping trips! I bought the FoodSaver 2-1 vacuum sealer for myself for Christmas this year, and I can’t wait to use it! I’m once planning to zillion freeze my woebegone stone umami burgers and mushroom yellow burgers from my cookbook.

A souvenir document to a local cooking class

This makes the perfect holiday souvenir for the new cook, a possible venture for the non-cook, or provides fresh ideas for the old cook. You can purchase two tickets to go with them, or let them go with a friend/family member. This would be a unconfined way to reservation up with flipside rented parent and get some time for yourself, not just the kiddos!

A subscription to a meal kit wordage service

There are many meal kit services to segregate from, and they can be a unconfined way to provide all of the materials for someone who is just learning to melt or cooks infrequently. They can segregate from scrutinizingly any kind of nutrition or taste preferences. When possible, segregate one that has the most eco-friendly packaging.

A tint iron pan

A tint iron is one of the best, most durable cooking mediums and truly lasts forever. These pans come in multiple sizes, are inexpensive, and a lifelong souvenir that gets largest with age! Most of these come without harmful coatings that can leach chemicals. I love Tramontina brand* which is oven unscratched until 450°Fl

Basic kitchen supplies or appliances

Choose from a set of knives, a wearing board, mixing bowls, measuring cups, a blender, spatulas, or other cooking utensils for a holiday gift. The list goes on! If you’re not sure what they once have, it usually doesn’t hurt to have a couple of uneaten nuts such as a unconfined chef’s pocketknife or stackable stainless steel bowel. I’ve moreover gifted Pyrex dish sets with lids* to family. I use every shape and size for left-overs so I can see them unmistakably in the refrigerator and decrease supplies waste!

A Dutch oven

A cast-iron or enamel Dutch oven is a holiday souvenir that will alimony on giving. It retains heat and prevents drying, which is perfect for slow-roasting succulent meats and vegetables! And it saves on tinfoil, as there’s no need to cover. You can plane pair the oven with some Dutch oven recipes so they can start cooking succulent meals right away!

An immersion blender that’s hand-held

This can be a lifesaver for time and can eliminate uneaten dishes. Plus, while the soup is still hot, you can tousle it in the pot. I use my immersion blender for this tasty spinach soup that’s an easy-to-make family favorite. I’ve had my Kitchenaid hand blender* for over a decade, and love it for homemade pureed or surf soups.

A spice set or zestless herb blend

For the new cook, go for a vital set the includes some “classic” savor profiles. For an experienced cook, you can “spice” things up with a specific savor profile that may be new for them, such as Moroccan spices or Japanese seasoning. I bought herb blends for stocking stuffers, and for our good friends who are visiting on Christmas Eve (I hope they don’t see this article) I bought them several of my favorites from Frontier Co-Op including Tandoori Masala*. And yes, I know this will lead to a supplies theme discussion!

A homemade dry rub

Rubs are unconfined for tofu, root veggies, meat, and fish. Pre-mix some spices and herbs for someone to have ready to marinate or season their dishes – you can label each with its intended use! You can moreover make taco mix that – did you know- is succulent as a veggie seasoning? A family favorite is halved Brussels sprouts cooked crispy in olive oil and taco seasoning in a tint iron pan –delicious!

A healthy recipe book

For the zippy person who is looking to add increasingly plant-based dishes to their diet, trammels out my new cookbook The Plant-Based Boost Cookbook, 100 Recipes for Athletes and Exercise Enthusiasts which has tasty recipes for meals, snacks, and desserts all jam-packed with phytonutrients for good health!

An spouse or oven mitts

During the holidays, the aprons come out! Why not get one with a holiday theme, cute pattern or fun design?

A set of fun reticulum napkins or dish towels

These are flipside favorite souvenir I love to give! These get dirty fast, so most people fathom having extra! Plus reticulum napkins are unconfined for the environment.

A lovely platter or serving bowl

Let them show off their tasty creations! Platters can be used for veggies, cheese and crackers, desserts and more.

Silicone sultry mats

I’ve had my MIU nonstick silicone mats* for years and I can only imagine how much wax paper and non-stick spray I’ve saved! It’s one of the gifts for parents and adults that are nonflexible to go wrong with.

A kitchen herb box

Fresh herb plants make every dish taste largest and fresher! Constantly paying for herbs at the grocery store can add up in a hurry, so it’s a souvenir that will save money. You can go upper tech like this Click and Grow an indoor garden for the kitchen or souvenir a little mini herb garden for their stoop or windowsill.

A personalized wearing board

For the eco-conscious, find a maintenance-free, durable bamboo one! We like this double set of bamboo wearing boards* as it offers a mini-cutting board, perfect for when you need to mince garlic or shallots but don’t want to get stuck washing a large board.

While these are unconfined gifts for parents, you may like the sound of some of these gifts for yourself too. Send this vendible withal to your spouse or partner with a note – “If you’re having a nonflexible time finding me a gift, a few of these will do!” These gifts are major time-savors for meal creations and are the perfect tools to cut lanugo on time, relieve mental vacuum of meal planning, and make it easier to have succulent healthy options ready to go!

Next see our other article, Holiday Gifts for Foodies in the Family for all your last-minute shopping needs.

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