Welcome to the GZW gift guide of 2019! Creating gift guides every year is one of my favorite blog posts to write.   Both my mother and I have the love language of gifts. And, I’ve worked to reconcile that with adopting a more minimal and low-waste lifestyle to the point that my love language has probably shifted to acts of service.   But, the fact remains, I still love gifting and receiving physical gifts. I love gifting experiences and consumable gifts, but I also love giving physical things too.         Gifting physical gifts is a rare opportunity to spread the sustainable living message in a kind way. I have gifted small reusable items like straws or beeswax wraps and watched my non-eco parents and friends love the products SO much that they started adopting more zero waste habits.   If you’ve ever gifted a zero-waste swap, then you know what I’m talking about!   I’ve divided this blog post into a few separate categories so you can easily find the perfect gift for everyone on your list.  

1. gifts for the adventurer
2. gifts for the home
3. gifts for the budding environmentalist
4. gifts for the fashionista
5. gifts for the foodie

  There will also be a stocking stuffer post coming out this Friday for smaller gifts so be on the lookout!  

gifts for the foodie

  I LOVE good food. I mean who doesn’t? I love simple pleasures like my homemade morning latte traditions which are always made with tea instead of coffee as well as getting to whip up a feast and entertain a crowd. I mean, I think you’d have to, to have hosted Thanksgiving dinner for the last five years. So, here are a few of my favorite kitchen items.    

 

    reVessel Adventure Kit This adventure kit is designed as a completely modular system so all of the pieces can be used together or separate making this perfect for packing up leftovers, getting take away, bringing lunch to work or school, and even for meal prepping.   The kit is also leakproof and oven safe making it a foodies best friend. ReVessel also gives back a portion of each sale to Farmer’s Footprint and Changing Tides.   Check out the reVessel Adventure Kit  

 

  Bestselling Bundle The best thing about the Further Food blends is that they’ve already mixed the adaptogens in!   While Further Food is packaged in plastic, they use 100% post-consumer recycled plastic #2.   Using recycled plastic reduces the carbon footprint by 78%, drastically improves the carbon footprint for travel due to it being lighter than glass, it consumes 90% less energy, and it’s a pure plastic (not a mix!) so it can be recycled again and again.   Check out Further Food’s Bestselling Bundle and get 15% off with the code ‘GOINGZEROWASTE’    

 

  Homestead Turkey & Chicken Let’s be honest, Nala is probably a bigger foodie than me. And, that girl is picky! She’s a food snob and has been known to turn her nose up at A LOT of good food.   However, she LOVES Open Farm! And, I love Open Farm because they have amazing traceability, and they source from Certified Humane farms. They’ve also partnered with TerraCycle so all of their packaging can be taken back for recycling.   Check out Nala’s Fav Homestead Turkey & Chicken    

 

  Loose Leaf Tea Gift Set Wize Monkey has made an award-winning delicious tea from coffee leaves. Yes - coffee leaves! Sounds crazy, but when you taste it, you'll know why it's critically acclaimed.   Coffee leaves normally get discarded during the 9 month off season when most most farmers are out of work so Wize Monkey is helping by offering employment during that time! My personal favorite is the loose leaf Earl Gray.   Check out the build your own loose leaf gift set and get 20% off with the code ‘gwf20’   I really hope you enjoyed my gift guide this year! I’m going to link to a few more holiday posts below, and stay tuned for my Stocking Stuffer guide that’s coming out on Friday!