Looking for Gifts for Your Foodie Friend? Here are 12 Gifts Your Food Lover Friend will Love and Appreciate! (2020)

Foodie is not a word - it is a concept that defines the specialty of a person! Eating can be a hobby, along with knowing about different restaurants, chefs, and cooking styles. Your friend indeed is a foodie if you have noticed the following in his habits.

Matcha is a staple in Japanese tradition, and it is sometimes called ‘Maccha’. It is a popular choice worldwide, known for its high levels of antioxidants, catechins, and theanine. It is globally recognized for its health benefits and widely admired in Japan. The traditional Japanese Tea Celebration centres around the preparation, serving, and drinking matcha as hot tea; it is also used to flavour the food.

The Matcha tea brewing kit can be a classy gift to your favourite friend, who might be a food or tea lover. The ‘Matcha Brewing Kit’ from udayantea.com brings you a high-quality matcha tea kit for Rs. 2,000. Just like the Japanese, you can make your tea making ritual by using this grand combination of the finest handcrafted matcha-ware. This kit comes with a treasure chest of matcha tools, which is a handcrafted bundle of finest match-ware.

The bamboo scoop gives a perfect measurement, the handcrafted ceramic bowl helps to keep away the clumps, and the whisk creates smooth matcha tea. The material is made of ceramic and bamboo. This delightful kit is a gorgeous black, and it will surely give you the comfort of treating yourself to the better brewing of traditional Japanese Matcha Tea right from your own home.

Since early human history, spices are connected to magic, culture, tradition, and medicines. Indian spices are a mix of vibrant colours and tantalizing aroma. The spices make the dishes unique with sweet, spicy, and tangy flavours. The box of Indian Gift Selection of Spices has the assortment of both essential and unusual flavours.

It comes with a recipe book and usage ideas book enclosed. The pack contains Ajwain Seeds, Whole Garam Masala, Sri Lankan Curry Blend, Cardamom Masala, and Pilau Rice Spice Mix. As we know, Ajwain or Carom Seeds has a bitter or pungent flavour, due to this aromatic quality, it is often used in pickles and curries. There are several health benefits of these seeds, too; they are rich in vitamins, antioxidants, minerals, and fibres. It helps in treating indigestion, common cold, toothache, prevent greying hair, among many other benefits. Cardamom is used in many Indian sweets, and it has a distinctly sweet flavour used in making tea. It costs Rs. 1,200 on seasonedpioneers.com, and is an excellent gift for the food lovers.

Imagine you are invited to a food-loving friend’s house warming party, and you are thinking of giving something different. A rolling pin is such a unique tool to carry on such occasions. It is a useful tool in the kitchen which will surely be appreciated by your foodie friend. What makes it even more attractive is the engraved prints.

The wooden rolling pin from Tanser has flower embossed in it. It has a beautiful print of flowers that will show up immediately when it will be rolled over the dough, which you can use to make cookies. It comes in yellow and is priced at Rs. 1,149 on ubuy.co.in. Its size is approximately 38 cm (15 inches) in total, and the diameter of the roller is 4 cm. It is made of natural wood with no paint or wax, which makes it environmentally safe.

As it is natural, it has some colour difference, partial roughness, occasional knots, and different textures, which are the attributes of natural wood. This embossed rolling pin is a perfect souvenir along with being a part of a kitchen tool. If you have kids at home, then the cookie making can be a fun project with them to do with this tool.

A donut-shaped soap will be a fun gift for your foodie friend. These soaps are so beautiful to look at that you will instantly want to taste them. But don't do that, as they are made from glycerine base soap colourants and cupcake fragrance oil sometimes. They also have colourful rainbow sprinkles. Etsy has these playful soaps which look and smell cool, and it is such a lovely gift for the food lovers. You can purchase these for $8 (approx. Rs. 600) per piece with additional shipping charges.

The conical-shaped beauties named strawberries don't only look good but also are fantastic for your skin too. The food lovers all know that there are several recipes they can make with this super fruit and stay healthy because it has powerful anti-oxidants and loads of vitamin C. This vitamin C gives the skin strength to fight against free radicals. It is anti-ageing and clears sebum, which prevents acne along with providing UV protection. A strawberry fruit scrub helps to make the skin look fresh, soft, and hydrated.

Soapsquareindia.com brings you this body scrub made from crushed strawberries and Calamine clay. Calamine clay helps to soothe the irritated skin along with doing detoxification. It gives a matte finish to the oily skin too. This scrub also has skin-loving oils which help to make skin smoother and softer. The price for this strawberry body scrub is Rs. 550 and the ingredients consist of crushed strawberry extract, calamine clay, sweet almond, coconut oil, cane sugar, and Vitamin E. It is also SLS and paraben-free with no artificial colours. It is an entirely natural and handmade scrub, which can be a great addition to the food lover's life.

You want to set up a vertical garden from scratch or gift the same to a food lover friend with all the organic plants? Then a stackable planter is one of the best ways to do it. It is easy and ready to use that allows you to make a vertical garden right in your kitchen. You can put any herbs or small veggies and keep it in your kitchen where it fits and be a helpful addition during your cooking.

Trustbasket.com is offering a stacked planter which can be used as a flowerpot or herb stacking basket. You can make your combination of fruits, flowers, or herbs. It is a 100% virgin plastic, and it is made from UV protected plastic grade, which will prevent these pots from fading due to sunlight. The pot has a drainage system, and it is priced at Rs. 1,618.

A food lover loves creative ways to organize and save space as much as possible in the kitchen or dining table area. The ‘Durobar Pyramid Vertigo Pro Set’ will surely steal the hearts of everyone who loves presenting foods nicely. They will love this pyramid stack up, which can be used to keep gourmet dessert or bouche; it has three different sized dessert bowls and a topper. It is also dishwasher safe and easy to maintain. The price for these four sets of Belgium glass stack is Rs. 1,980, available on urbandazzle.com.

After a nice dinner, hold those cute beer coats and have a fun time with friends. These little puffer jackets are cool to look at and keep, and you will get these in two colours - navy blue and plum shade. It is soft nylon from outside with a metallic lining from inside so that it remains cool from inside and dry from outside. These features make it a fun gift for all the food as well as beer lovers. The price of one beer can is Rs. 1,073, and it is a kitchen and barware accessory. Buy it from uncommongoods.com.

Among many kitchen tools, a cast iron pan is one of the readily available things which is extremely useful for daily cooking purposes. It is nonstick and chemical-free, less expensive, and easy to clean. We have selected this iron skillet from theindusvalley.in that can be bought for Rs. 999.

A customised juice or wine glass can be a distinctive wedding gift, which can be a special one. These can be elegant, fun as well as touchy. Buy these from fnp.com for Rs. 1,299.

A reusable food storage bag, on the other hand, can be a convenient and less expensive gift. Try the hygienic, leakproof, and BPA free storage box or bag, which is safe for microwave, dishwasher, and freezer. Available on Amazon for Rs. 399.

A mini cake making kit is not only useful for those who want to make a cake but also it will inspire the ones who never tried baking before. It is very convenient to carry around while your friend travels to various places. Available for purchase on Amazon for Rs. 1,099