2024 Holiday Gift Guide: Vegan Gifts for Every Budget

Simple and chic, this cute garlic press is a breeze to use and a fun gift for the garlic lover in your life. Just place peeled garlic underneath the holes and press down using a rocking motion for a rocker filled with pressed garlic. It’s easy to wash and doesn’t take up much room in the drawer.

Made in France, these stackable glass tumblers have a timeless vibe that suits any kitchen and are sturdy enough to use every day (they’re made with tempered glass). Ultra versatile, they’re perfect for showing off your favorite plant-based parfait, fruit salad, nice cream, oats, dip, or anything else you can think of.

Milled in small batches to ensure freshness, Local Spicery, run by husband-and-wife-duo Nicholas Davoren and Evelyn Wood, is an excellent resource for the plant-based cook looking for tasty, healthy seasonings. This 2-jar gift set features their popular Bada Bing Bouillon Oooh-Mommy Umami Powder and Sel-acious, a tasty salt substitute made from sumac, onion, tomato, mustard, kombu, thyme, and cumin. Both come highly recommended by Chef AJ!

Imagine ending your work day feeling loose and invigorated! This inspiring card deck is compact enough for any desk and offers plenty of inspiration to give you a physical and mental boost whenever you need it. The exercises fall into one of four categories, allowing you to pick the area you’d like to focus on: Chair Yoga, Standing Yoga, Pranayamas, Mudras (calming breathwork and hand gestures), and Meditation & Mindfulness.

One of the handiest kitchen tools around, these top-rated silicone spatulas feel great in the hand and are a pleasure to use. The handle has a steel core for rigidity, while the soft food-grade silicone head hugs the shape of the bowl, ensuring you get every last bit out. Heat-resistant up to 600°F, these won’t melt when stirring hot things, and they won’t scratch your favorite pan. They’re 100% BPA-free and come in a variety of colors.

Soak your worries away with this relaxing bath salt blend from the folks at Herbivore, where creating plant-based skincare is their mission. Pink Himalayan sea salt adds soothing magnesium and other minerals to the water, while a fragrant, blend of ylang-ylang and vanilla calms and soothes. With no messy dried herbs to clog the drain, this is a relaxing experience from start to finish. Each bottle is small enough to pack for an overnight getaway and contains enough for four luxury baths.

This wide-mouth funnel, sometimes called a canning funnel, is a great stocking stuffer for the foodie in your life who has everything! No more messes filling up storage containers or pouring soup into a thermos. Made from stainless steel, it’s easy to wash, and the 5.8-inch wide mouth fits most jars. Once you have one of these, you’ll wonder how you lived without one.

The Museum of Modern Art Design Store is a goldmine for home wares that delightfully marry form and function, and this eye-catching fruit basket is a perfect example: Its wire-mesh design allows air to circulate around fruit so that it stays fresh for longer, and it looks so darn cute on your countertop. It comes in four classic yet bold hues—the above-pictured red, as well as a banana-yellow, cobalt blue, and forest green—to add a happy pop of color to your kitchen.

The BlendJet is a surprisingly useful little gadget, even if you already have a plug-in single-serve blender. The portable personal blender allows you to whip up smoothies while camping and on road trips. And because it’s convenient and easy to clean (just add soap and water and blend), you may find yourself using it at home, too. It’s not for serious jobs—we’ve not found it to be effective at blending ice, and we usually let frozen fruit thaw for about 10 minutes before blending—but given the low price point and the fact that it takes up as much cabinet space as a reusable water bottle, it’s a worthwhile buy. The BlendJet 2 is BPA-free.

Goodies is an LA-based brand on a mission to make stylish home goods more affordable. No item in its brick-and-mortar or online stores costs more than $25, yet their products are well-made and feel special enough to give as gifts. We’re particularly fond of their ceramic bowls, which come in a range of styles, from shallow ones that are perfect for smoothie bowls to these deep ramen bowls. With room for ample broth and toppings, these tapered bowls cost $22 a pop and are guaranteed to elevate your homemade ramen experience. The speckled, pleasingly hefty stoneware is heat-safe and dishwasher-safe.

California Balsamic is famous among the whole-food, plant-based community for its line of top-tier balsamic vinegars that are free of added salt, oil, and sugar (aka “SOS-free”). “Since balsamic vinegar is naturally sodium-free, I made a conscious decision to never add any ingredients that contained sodium,” owner Thomas Allen says. The small business uses only fresh ingredients to infuse their products, no extracts or highly processed ingredients. The oil-free Deluxe Bestseller set bundles four of their most popular balsamics—7-Herb Italian, Gilroy Garlic, Sweet Heat, and Simply Lemon—plus a sample size of the Spice Traders Curry flavor. Indulge the WFPB foodie in your life with a tangy at-home taste test!

LifeStraw had a 20-year track record of helping transform dirty water into safe drinking water, when it launched its first straw-style device for humanitarian purposes. Now a Climate Neutral Certified B Corp, the company offers a range of water-filtration products for at home and on the go. The LifeStraw Go Series promises to “filter out the nasties” using a two-stage system: a membrane microfilter, which removes 99.99% of bacteria (including E.coli and Salmonella), parasites (including Giardia and Cryptosporidium), microplastics, sand, dirt, and cloudiness; and a carbon filter to reduce chlorine, odors, and organic chemical matter. Its pathogen-removing, taste-enhancing capabilities earned it a stamp of approval from The New York Times Wirecutter. The LifeStraw Go comes in stainless steel or BPA-free plastic (with 10 different color options) and a few different sizes. With daily use, the microfilter lasts for about five years, while the carbon filter will need to be replaced about every two months.

Dusen Dusen specializes in making irresistible, Instagrammable home goods like these personality-packed placemats, which are 100% cotton and machine-washable. The set of four comes with one mat in each colorway (Paprika, Sage, Turmeric, and Thyme); you can also opt for a set of two in one colorway. If you’re not sure what to get the consummate home cook and host in your life, these are a good option—one can never have too many placemats!

Sonder Los Angeles is a small business that specializes in one thing: cutting boards. Made in the USA using sustainably sourced American maple, the aptly named Winsome board is a beauty that you’ll be proud to whip out for charcuterie. Weighing 8 pounds, it’ll stay put while you slice and dice away, and it features a fun reversible design: on one side, a moat runs along the edges to prevent fruit or veggie juices from leaking onto your counter; the other side has a well to hold chopped ingredients when you’re using it as a cutting board or crackers, grapes, or other items when in charcuterie mode.

Make the plant-based amateur chef in your life feel like a real pro with a high-quality Japanese knife. Nakiri are designed to chop produce cleanly and precisely, and this one features helpful touches like a hollow edge (to prevent veggies from sticking to the blade) and an ergonomic handle weighted with sand inside, to create just the right balance as you’re chopping. Metal handles are easier to keep up than wood, though they can get slippery; for safety, work with dry hands and avoid using the knife for fatty ingredients. Made of exceptionally hard steel, ice-tempered, and hardened to resist corrosion, Global knives are made in Japan and come with a lifetime warranty.

Since 1996, Osea Malibu has been developing products that harness the power of seaweed—a rich source of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and antioxidants—for natural yet effective skincare. The Total Glow Body Trio offers a three-step routine for ultra-soft skin. First, use the Plant-Based Body Brush to promote circulation and remove dead cells. Then, hop in the shower or bath and gently massage the Salts of the Earth Body Scrub all over. After toweling off, lather up with some Undaria Algae Body Oil, and mwah—you've got kissable, baby-soft skin, even in the deadest, driest days of winter.

Help your bubbly-water obsessed loved one save money and reduce their carbon footprint with an at-home sparkling water maker. The Philips GoZero is a budget-friendly option with a sleek design, and it comes with a BPA-free bottle. It’s lightweight and doesn’t use electricity, so it can live anywhere in the house. Note that it doesn’t come with CO2 cylinder, so if you want them to be able to get fizzing right away, be sure to pick one up separately.

We didn’t have tomato candles on our 2024 bingo card, but they certainly took the world by storm this year—and once you’ve sniffed one, you understand why. The refreshing, earthy, slightly tangy fragrance transports you to the carefree days of late summer day with just one whiff. While Flamingo Estate’s is probably the buzziest tomato candle on the market, we love this one from Carrière Frères. The French candlemakers have been at it for 140 years, and they make their products to an excellent standard. Handcrafted in Normandy and poured into partly recycled, Italian-made glass, Carrière Frères candles are vegan and use 100% vegetable wax.

2024 was the year FOK got hip to the joys of the Ninja Creami. If you want to level up your nice cream–making game and achieve the shape and texture of traditional scoops instead of soft serve, this is the tool. It takes a little more planning than blender-style nice cream: You’ll make a smoothie-like batter and freeze it for 24 hours before the Creami’s “creamerizer blade” works its magic, milling and aerating your frozen blend into legit ice cream in about 4 minutes.

A collaboration between Forks Over Knives and the Rouxbe Online Cooking School, the Forks Cooking Course is a comprehensive, self-paced curriculum that includes 90 hours of expert-led instruction. Lessons include how to set up a plant-based kitchen, essential knife skills, basic cooking methods (such as oil-free sauteing and roasting), efficient batch-cooking, and meal planning and prepping.

Treat someone you love to the ultra luxe cult-favorite hand soap and moisturizing balm. The scent is a relaxing blend of mandarin orange, rosemary, and cedar, the ingredients are vegan and gentle, and the balm is deeply moisturizing.

Masienda is our go-to for a sturdy tortilla press, and it comes in six nice colors. This tasty kit pairs the press with two bags of heirloom masa harina and a set of reusable tortilla press liners.

In collaboration with cookbook author and Instagram star Dan “Grossy” Pelosi, Blockshop made this 100% organic cotton robe featuring our favorite fruit/vegetable screen printed over blue pajama stripes. Who wouldn’t want to spend lazy weekend mornings lounging around in this cheery robe?

For anyone who really wants to tune in to their health, consider the Oura ring. Wrist-worn trackers like the Apple Watch and Fitbit do a better job tracking physical activity, but the Oura wins out for battery life, comfort, and 24/7 ease of wear. The Oura ring tracks sleep quality, body temperature (tips you off when you’re getting sick), menstrual cycle, heart rate, and blood oxygen levels. The newest generation Oura 4 is slimmer and more comfortable than the generation 3 model, with a longer, eight-day battery life; expanded size options; and more accurate sensors.

Yes, it’s a splurge, and it’s worth every penny. The Vitamix high-speed blender can make cream-style soups in a matter of seconds, blitz nuts into a smooth butter, and transform frozen fruit pieces into a soft-serve “nice cream” treat. We like the Ascent Series A2300 model, which has a shorter, wider pitcher and cutting-edge precision settings that include a digital timer and wireless sensor.

For serious pizza lovers, this beginner-friendly, chef-loved outdoor oven works with propane tanks or a natural gas line and comes with cordierite stone baking board. Reaching up to 500°F to cook neapolitan-style pizza with a nice crispy crust in as little as 60 seconds, it doubles as a tandoor oven to bake naan or other breads. The 16-inch diameter leaves enough room to maneuver without getting burned.

This space-saving made-in-France set is the whole package: The black enamel interiors cook and clean up (almost) as well as nonstick pans—without the worry of forever chemicals or stains. The heavy cast iron provides even heat retention. This stackable set includes a 5-quart Dutch oven for soups and stews, a shallow 3½ quart braiser, a ridged grill pan for nice sear marks, and a heavyweight lid that fits all three pans.

If you want an air fryer and your toaster has seen better days, this smart convection oven is The New York Times Wirecutter’s top pick among air fryer/toaster combos. It comes with 13 presets, including toast, broil, air-fry, proof, pizza, and dehydrate. It also has two roomy levels, so you can cook two pizzas or two quarter sheet pans of veggies (or cookies) at the same time.