Christmas food and drink must haves (AD)

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Christmas time is all about being together as a family for us. My husband is a shift worker, and some years he misses most of the Christmas festivities.

This means that we want to make the run up to Christmas, as well as the big day itself as lovely as we possibly can. For us, being together and enjoying lovely food and drink, is really a big part of the festive season.

We love having nice snacks on hand, and a foodie Christmas gift, is always a winner with the older members of our family, who appreciate cooking nice food at home. 

This gift guide is designed to give you some tips, both for gifting to the foodies in your life, and for sprucing up your festivities too! 

The VonShef XL Teppanyaki Grill is the perfect gift for a loved one who likes to entertain at home, or host dinner parties.

This extra large electric Teppanyaki Grill is perfect for cooking meat, fish and vegetables in a family style setting. You can chop, stir, and flip all of the food as you cook it, and get a nice sear too. It's great for hosting dinner parties, and putting on a little bit of a show for people too.

Budding Batman fans will absolutely love making waffles in this *Batman waffle maker. This is non-stick, compact, easy to use and best of all the waffles are fun! 

Project #173 has added this really fun rum flavour to their range, Dubai Chocolate rum. It's perfect for cocktail fans and even those of us who like to make a boozy dessert from time to time.

It's available from Master of Malt and is ideal for that drink rum lover who already has a big collection.

The VonShef UltraBlend Smoothie Maker is the perfect gift for health conscious loved ones. This has a 1000W motor, combined with 25,000RPM, and razor-shape blades, making it super fast to process fruits and vegetables, to turn into delicious smoothies.

This smoothie maker comes with a large and medium cup, one a spill-proof lid, and a sip and seal lid, making it ideal for blitzing a smoothie in the morning on the way to work, or while heading to a workout. It's great for blending protein shakes, fresh juices, smoothies, and much more. I've even used mine to crush ice for iced coffee too.

This 8 person Raclette Grill is perfect for feeding you and up to 7 guests. You can enjoy grilling, searing and frying food directly at the dining table with this fantastic device. 

There is an interchangeable natural stone plate and non-stick grill, with a thermostatic dial, that offers total control over the temperature of the grill. There are also 8 cute little pans tucked underneath that are ideal for heating foods such as eggs, cheese, sauce or even a little chocolate for a fancy dessert. 

Beauty Dropz are ingestible supplements that are designed to work from the inside out to provide targeted skincare benefits. These are ideal for fast nutrient absorption, provide long-term results, and are great for the health conscious loved one you’re gifting to this Christmas.

You’ll find multiple great items within the range, and these include products to help with strengthening hair, having blemish-free skin, and even reducing the appearance of wrinkles, boosting skin elasticity, and giving you radiant skin. 

I absolutely love to gift Personalised hampers as they can be a great way to get a bundle of treats, without having to spend a lot of time or energy on shopping myself.

It's great fun to think up a slogan, phrase, or just use your loved one's name on their hamper, and see them get something that was for them, and is personal, while also being nice and convenient for you during the Christmas festive season when life is a little busy.

A fuel can of London dry gin, an Engine can, is the perfect fun and flavoursome gift for the gin lover in your life. The gin is produced with an array of botanicals from Italy, such as liquorice, damask rose, essential oils and lemon, and not a note of petrol around! 

I’m going to be gifting this gin to a car lover I know, who also loves gin, and I think this is the perfect quirky gift for a gin collector who seems to have 100s of different bottles of gin already. 

I absolutely love personalised gifts at Christmas time and VistaPrint has a wide range of fantastic products. This year I’ve opted to make personalised advent calendars for a few members of my family. Not only can you choose the chocolates within the advent calendar, from a range including Lindt Lindor and Celebrations, but you can personalise the advent calendars in a variety of ways including with photographs. 

I've also picked up a fun personalised Milka giant chocolate bar, with a personalisation for a loved one on it.

This Japanese Kiln Transformed Matcha Tea Set is the perfect gift for a matcha lover. It comes in a pretty box and contains a tea bowl, ceramic whisk stand, a bamboo whisk, a filter screen, a tea spoon, and a tea scoop.

This is a lovely quality matcha set, well designed, and pretty as well as being functional. It's a great way to add a delightful daily ritual into the life of your loved one.

This Christmas why not gift a family gift? The Christmas Sweet Box is an amazing box packed full of 20 different sweets, from retro classics and right up to current Christmas favourites. You’ll find candy canes, Christmas elves, double dips, giant strawberries and much more.

Hot chocolate is always a winner in our home, at any time of day, but there is just something so delightful about enjoying a nice hot chocolate in the colder months. We love to snuggle up with a nice hot chocolate, topped with whipped cream.

*The Salter Chocolatier cordless milk frother makes a delicious perfect milk froth, with dairy or plant-based milk, and then you can add your favourite chocolate flakes and have a creamy, indulgent and rich hot chocolate, at the touch of a button, in less than 5 minutes. You can even use this to make cold froth, perfect for frappes or topping iced coffees. 

Help the foodie in your life make their best ever loaves of bread with this stunning *Pullman Loaf Pan. I love that it comes with a lid, helping to achieve the perfect sandwich loaf, which is square in shape and will actually fit in lunchboxes. 

The quality of this is stunning and it is going to last years and years, the perfect way to let a loved one know you’re interested in their hobbies and also who doesn’t love fresh bread?! 

Christmas time is the perfect time for gifting something a little special soaked in alcohol, right? OPIES have a fantastic range of delicious, quality fruits, with delicious alcohol alongside. You can find some great recipe inspiration if you're looking for some different ideas this Christmas.

You can buy these lovely fruits with alcohol in Waitrose stores during the festive season.

We all know that Christmas is a time of indulgence, and rightly so, but if you’re looking to help your body a little along the way then take a look at the Goodie range. These super-concentrated fermented drinks contain 96 strains of live bacteria which can help support digestive health and promote overall wellbeing.

These are gluten-free, lactose-free and designed to help you have a healthier gut. Best of all they come in four lovely flavours - blackcurarnt, chokeberry, rye malt and sea buckthorn. Two shots a day are all you need and it it unpasteurised too.

This Christmas, for the relative who has everything, why not consider donating to charity instead?

Miracle's Mission allow you to purchase a cat or dog a Christmas dinner, or toy, for just £5 and they will provide you with a certificate to print out and fill in so you can show your loved one you've done something nice in their name.