The 30 Best Food Gifts You Can Buy Online
If you're celebrating a loved one known to chef it up in the kitchen (or anyone who appreciates great food), you can't go wrong with a gift basket brimming with delicious goodies. The options are pretty much endless, too, whether your recipient is a connoisseur of meat and cheese, vegan snacks, gourmet pasta sauces, or a little something sweet from their favorite out-of-town bakery. Food gifts are a simple yet meaningful method for showing gratitude, sympathy, or congratulations.
To help you find the best food gifts you can buy online, we researched dozens of options in a wide mix of food types and price ranges, covering sweets, savory snacks, entrees, appetizers, and more. We also spoke with Lindsay Schey, founder of The Gift Insider, for expert insight on how to pick the best food gift.
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If your giftee loves cookies, they’ll go gaga for this four-pack assortment from Levain Bakery. The package has four of the store’s most popular cookies—chocolate chip walnut, dark chocolate chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, and dark chocolate peanut butter chip—all baked fresh daily. They can be stored in an airtight container for a week and/or be frozen before getting heated up in the oven.
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This delectable prearranged cheese and charcuterie board serves three people and comes with 17 delicious artisan cheeses, meats, nuts, chocolates, dried fruits, crackers, and olives, along with the wood serving board and bamboo cutlery kit. It’ll be shipped overnight, so the recipient can enjoy the goods while they’re still fresh, and you can also schedule the delivery as an e-gift, so they can pick their own ideal delivery date.
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Available at ButcherBox, this filling collection comes with beef, pork chops, bacon, and more. All of the meat has no added hormones, and the free-to-ship package will come vacuum sealed and frozen with dry ice, so it can stay fresh for hours on end if not frozen immediately.
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This movie night popcorn set comes with three types of non-GMO kernels (crunchy big and yellow, delicate tender and white, and an oversized caramel mushroom), plus five fun flavors of popcorn seasonings (buttery jalapeno, cookie dough, dill pickle, movie theater, and zesty cheddar). Any popcorn lover will be drawn to these unique flavors.
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This elegant olive oil dipping set comes in either a sampler or deluxe size, and both options include a bottle of organic cold-pressed extra-virgin olive oil, six seasonings, and two gorgeous deep blue dipping plates. The spices include smoked paprika and crushed chilies, and the plates come divided into two sections for bread and oil.
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In this seriously hearty Williams-Sonoma set, you’ll get five entrees made by Oregon’s Elephants Delicatessen: beef lasagna, beef stroganoff, meatloaf, polenta dolcetto, and zuni stew. Each entree can serve up to four people, and they just need to be thawed for 24 hours before heating.
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Hot sauce connoisseurs will love this variety pack of Texas Pete hot sauces, which contains three 6-ounce bottles of some of the brand’s most popular sauces: original hot sauce (which is fairly mild), hotter hot sauce, and sauteed garlic hot sauce.