The festive season is all about the food - don't let anyone tell you differently! The best way to celebrate is to wrap food up and give it to those you love. It's like handing someone a love letter that they get to eat later. What could be more joyous than that?
Only one thing, of course, and that's if you combine your foodie gift with a bit of love and care for a small business, especially if it supports an important cause with a heart. It's like detonating two bombs in one: kapow for the business owner, kapow for your person.
Boom!
Pack a treat
The social enterprise café has packaged up a gorgeous range of ready to send to the ones you love. There are some serious gourmet goodies in every box, which is fitting given Moon Rabbit's top-notch foodie credentials.
Nice with spice
A jar of from supports women who are refugees, asylum seekers and migrants to connect with each other and their local and global communities. Sabol is a versatile Congolese relish you can slather on pretty much everything for a spicy kick that makes a difference.
Festive welcome
Support refugee and asylum seeker entrepreneurs by buying a hamper through . We especially like the Nourish Me Good hamper, which includes Syrian nut cake from , a Habibi chamomile, rose and verbena tea pouch from and a bottle of . You can also put together your own customised hamper to suit your giftee.
Kimberly cup
celebrated their 25th anniversary this year and created some merch to mark the occasion. would make an ideal gift and all profits go to support the organisation's tireless work to protect the Kimberley.
Choc full
Wait until you sink your teeth into these unconventional flavours. Source: Meltdown Artisan
While we are deep in choccy territory, artisan chocolate made by social trader is just the beginning. They reinvest 100 percent of profits into creating employment opportunities for people with disability and the disadvantaged. Their chocolate is handcrafted using the finest ingredients with packaging that features prints by studio artists. This chocolate is literally brimming with goodness.
Starry oil
Foodies will appreciate a bottle of small-batch, from Cockatoo Grove. You know you're onto a good olive oil when it's described like a bottle of wine: delightful aromas of ripe apple, sweet spices and almond, flavours of sweet apple with hints of grassiness and citrus leaf accompanied by a luscious velvety feel in your mouth. Are we allowed to drink this stuff from the bottle?
Set the table
It's tempting to buy the entire at for yourself, but do try to keep some aside for gifts. Keep the , and for yourself, of course.
Raving good puds
You know how when someone is into Christmas pudding, they're really, really into Christmas pudding? from is the pud they'll keep raving about for years. Just so you know...
soak your own
Christmas pudding
Big thanks
Thank a foodie with a from for-purpose social enterprise . It's basically the social enterprise that supports other social enterprises. There's a memorable moment to be found here for everyone on your list this year. Little things like , or a . Or big things like a .
Well-stacked
Every foodie needs a decent lunchbox to cart their picnic around, and by B Corp certified producer does the job with style. You can get it from the Clean + Conscious awards website .
Bee good
Beeswax wraps are the bee's knees for keeping your food fresh, so your mate will appreciate a from the family-owned company . Even better, the Bee Wrappy team donate a percentage of the sale price to .
Nature's sculpture
Speaking of doing good, Mudgee apiarist and disease specialist Andrew Wyszynski is helping to fight the Varroa mite virus that's threatening bees across NSW. You can support his work by gifting a jar of . Each jar is a mini beehive sculptured by around 500 worker bees, just for you! An exceptionally sweet gift indeed.
Bragging rights
Half the delight in giving a jar of will be the bragging rights. Getting your hands on one of these jars of tomato and black garlic paste is nigh on impossible. But Christmas is for miracles after all.
Remotely good
is a paddock-to-plate product created on a remote cattle station near Hughenden, out the back of Northwest Queensland. You can get t from , an organisation that supports rural communities around Australia.
Caffeine kick
Any friend would welcome a cup of on Christmas morning. DHUWA means to 'feel alive' in the Bidjara language, which sounds like the best kind of gift around. Also, a cup from , brings some of the richness from her Ethiopian heritage straight to our morning and afternoon cups. Be sure to pop some corn for the ultimate Ethiopian coffee ceremony snack!
Home for hope
The has a slew of gifts your food-loving friend will adore. For starters, a bunch of (so handy), an (so necessary), or a . Have a look around their - all proceeds go directly towards supporting people seeing asylum.
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Coriander and mint chutney
Bush Christmas
A jar of from Jala Jala will your Christmas salad in no time. Jala Jala means very good in founder Sharon Brindley's Wajarri language and that sums up her range of native ingredient products to perfection. Also, try Jala Jala's own or .
Kingly gin
This is such a fun idea for a . Distillery Botanica has infused its classic dry gin with frankincense, gold and myrrh. It's also thrumming with more than a hint of cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and a fruity kick. Another triumph from one Australia's pioneering micro-distillers, horticulturalist Phillip Moore (check out his Mr Black cold brew range as well...)
Wattle on
We love everything Nornie Bero does and her small-batch, handmade is right up there with her best. The packaging is full of uplifting cheer, the drink is warm and the flavour is incredible.
Board member
Annie sources her ingredients from her own North East Victorian garden or sources as close to home as possible. Source: Homemade by Annie
Tea time
Roogenic has this lush out for Christmas. Think Australian festive flavours like strawberries and mango mixed with good-for-you ethically-sourced bushfood ingredients including strawberry gum leaf, quandong and Kakadu plum leaf. Roogenic works closely with their Indigenous partners to develop employment opportunities, land care initiatives and the sharing of traditional culture between generations.
Roogenic Australian Chrismas tea Source: Roogenic
