Holiday Back again and better than ever, our 2016 Holiday Shopping Guide is loaded with tasty, SHOPPING practical, and festive holiday gift-giving ideas for your family and friends. From beautiful baubles and fashion-forward footwear to cruelty-free bodycare and fair-trade chocolate, this season’s guide is packed with more green, GUIDE compassionate options than ever before. Happy shopping!
FOOD FOOD Gourmet Plant-Based Meals and Vegan Gifts Happiness Delivered to Your Doorstep for Jerky Lovers Healthy eating usually takes a back seat during the holidays—think over- Searching for the perfect gift for indulging at parties, traveling, and busy schedules. Don’t fret! Life just got your jerky-loving friends and family? a little easier. Veestro helps you stay on track by delivering chef-prepared, FakeMeats.com has vegan jerky organic vegan meals and juices. Enjoy an à la carte menu, juice cleanses, meal enjoyed by vegans and omnivores packs, and weight-loss plans. Treat yourself and your loved ones to the perfect alike. Impress the jerky lovers in your gift of high-quality, tasty food—delicious is what they do. Veestro is here to life this holiday season with a vegan- please and feed your happy with plants! jerky gift basket! > veestro.com > fakemeats.com > 855-434-8988 > 847-986-8606
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FOOD BEAUTY Almondaire Almond- Vegan Beauty Box Subscription Based Crème Liqueur & E-Boutique The world’s first vegan cream-style Catering to serious green-beauty lovers, Petit Vour (pronounced “pehtee liqueur, Almondaire has a texture vohr”) delivers the latest clean vegan finds right to your doorstep each month. reminiscent of traditional cream Inside your box, you’ll find personalized beauty products to apply, blend, liqueurs but is dairy-free, gluten-free, lather, and spray. Each box has $35+ worth of beauty and always includes free and only 83 calories per serving. shipping. Purchase new full-size favorites in the PV Shop and earn 20 percent Infused with vanilla, chocolate, and back in store credit on every purchase. Compassionate and affordable—how’s almond, now everyone can enjoy a that for guiltless? creamy liqueur this holiday season! > petitvour.com > almondaire.com VEGNEWS DEAL Use coupon code “VEGNEWS” at signup to receive a $25 bonus cream blush by 100% Pure
FASHION FOOD Handmade Vegan VeganEssentials.com is Your One-Stop Goods by Kat Vegan Holiday Shopping Destination Mendenhall With so many awesome vegan products in one location, it’s no wonder VeganEssentials.com is known as the one-stop shop for all your holiday Custom designed and handcrafted needs! Whether you’re shopping for friends and family or simply treating in Texas, Kat Mendenhall offers yourself to something fun, you’ll find more than 1,500 fantastic all-vegan vegan cowboy boots and accessories items including food and sweets (with plenty of great chocolate gift boxes!), for both men and women. A true vitamins and supplements, body care and cosmetics, footwear, home goods, pioneer, Kat’s products are special, books, t-shirts, and more. Add in fast shipping, low prices, and unbeatable collectable, artistic, and made in customer service, and VeganEssentials.com will make your holiday shopping limited production. The company’s easier than ever this season. stylish non-leather products prove that animals don’t have to suffer for > veganessentials.com fashion and comfort. > 866-888-3426 > katmendehall.com > 469-209-9022
VEGNEWS.COM VegNews 41 FOOD FOOD Badass Power Cookie: Nutrient-Dense Artisan Cheese Like a Bar, Tastes Like a Cookie Platters & Vegan Whether you’re a regular at the gym or eat a healthy diet, Badass Power Butter Cookies are a delicious and nutritious way to give your body a power boost. Every cookie is filled with From premium vegan cheese the phytonutrient equivalent for holiday parties to delectable to four to five servings of vegan butter to charm your friends, fruit and vegetables, three Miyoko’s Kitchen non-dairy products times more protein than revolutionize and redefine dairy. Gift beef, and vegan B12—not to it to yourself or your kith and kin mention a ton of antioxidants. and truly savor the holidays! Limited Choose from Oatmeal Raisin, editions and gift cards available. Chocolate Spice, and Berry— > miyokoskitchen.com all of which make scrumptious > 415-521-5313 stocking stuffers! > badasspowercookie.com
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BEAUTY FASHION Let Your Skin Shine with Cruelty-Free, Pelle Beauty’s Vegan Skincare Animal-Approved Luxury, cruelty-free vegan beauty can be delivered MooShoes offers the largest right to your door! Pelle uses the finest plant-based selection of vegan shoes and ingredients and essential oils, giving you the very best accessories in the world—online or that vegan beauty has to offer. Their sought-after facial in their New York City or Los Angeles oils and balms contain only pure ingredients and are boutiques. Browse their collection of free from preservatives, dyes, fillers, and 100-percent cruelty-free shoes, bags, synthetic fragrances, leaving your skin wallets, belts, and more for men and hydrated and refreshed. Choose from women, including their Jesse Monk their beautiful assortment of kits, Strap Oxford! facial oils, balms, cleansers, and > mooshoes.com perfumes—there is something for > 866-598-3426 everyone this holiday season! > pellebeauty.com
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FOOD CHARITY Delicious & Decadent Donate Vegan Food to Hungry Children Organic Vegan and Stop Heifer International Chocolates The Plants-4-Hunger gift-giving campaign of A Well-Fed World feeds impoverished children in Ethiopia, India, Guatemala, and the United States. Sjaak’s yummy chocolates offer a Instead of supporting the use of meat (like most hunger programs) or sending wide variety of beautifully packaged, live animals for food (like Heifer International), you can give the gift of warm holiday-themed chocolates including vegan meals and school vegetable gardens that nourish hungry children and salted caramels, chocolate Santas spare innocent animals. Plants-4-Hunger is a generous, caring, life-affirming filled with gummy candy, almond gift to give and receive. butter stockings, peanut butter trees, hazelnut snowballs, and much more. > awfw.org/gifts Choose Sjaak’s and make someone’s > 202-495-1348 sweet holiday dreams come true! VEGNEWS DEAL > sjaaks.com Use coupon code > 707-775-2434 “VEGNEWS” in the comment field, and Plants-4-Hunger will double your donation
FASHION FOOD Fabulous Cruelty- Vegan Cookie Gifts for the Holidays Free Custom This holiday season, send the gift of cookies with Nomoo Cookie Company’s Christmas or Hanukkah gift boxes. With eight unique flavors of delicious, Handbags soft-baked vegan cookies, each box of Nomoo contains vanilla bean sugar Give creativity, compassion, and palmiers, rich double chocolate cookies with Maldon salt or crushed customization with Cykochik’s peppermint, and six sweet vanilla sugar cookies topped with holiday award-winning eco-friendly and sugar. Nomoo cookies are available online by the box, or call for larger vegan handbags. Choose from catering orders! various bag shapes and sizes, 10 > nomoocookies.com vegan leather colors, exclusive artist > 267-362-5326 designs, or your own photos. All bags are handmade in Dallas, TX, and VEGNEWS DEAL gift cards and worldwide shipping Use coupon code are available. “VEGNEWS” for $5 > custom-handbags.com off your order through December 31
VEGNEWS.COM VegNews 43 FOOD FOOD Give the Gift of Growing: Organic Fair-Trade Organic Self-Watering Tomato Planter Vegan Chocolates This holiday season, bring the garden inside with Ready to Grow gifts from With a mission to inspire a plant- Back to the Roots! The Organic Self-Watering Planter lets you grow cherry based, cruelty-free lifestyle through tomatoes year-round and includes organic seeds, moisture-balancing soil, dark chocolate, what’s not to love and a clay olla pot that waters your plant just as it needs it. Simply top off your about chocolatier Nicobella? Crafted olla with water once a week, and enjoy with whole-food ingredients such as fresh tomatoes right from your windowsill. wild blueberries, wholesome nuts, Visit the company’s website for more and real cacao, Nicobella’s chocolate green gifts for families, foodies, and chefs. truffles delight the senses. Receive Shipping is free for orders more than $35! 10 percent off your purchase with coupon code “VegNews 2016.” > backtotheroots.com > 510-922-9758 > nicobellaorganics.com > 866-613-8679 VEGNEWS DEAL Use coupon code “VEGNEWS10” for 10% off all Ready to Grow products through December 31
FASHION FASHION Über-Cute Handbags Unique & Modern and Chic Cruelty-Free Vegan Clothing Accessories The Dharma Store has a huge variety of hip and fun vegan-inspired designs Bungalow 360 has it all! Since 1998, this that spread good vibes and positive vegan-owned business is renowned for energy. With everything from t-shirts creating chic fashion accessories such and tanks to tote bags, yoga apparel, as handbags, wallets, totes, satchels, and even sacred geometry clothing, hobos, and more. Operating out of a solar- the Dharma Store is PETA-approved powered farm, Bungalow’s “Powered and vegan owned and operated. By Love” program has donated solar power installations to The Gentle Barn, a > thedharmastore.com no-kill shelter, and an animal-placement society. Feel the love and shop knowing that a portion of each sale goes toward numerous animal-welfare groups. > bungalow360.com
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FASHION FASHION FASHION Beautiful Vegan Personalized Fair-Labor Vegan Handbags & Vegan Jewelry Footwear & More Accessories & Custom Gifts The Vegetarian Site offers an extensive selection of men’s whose love everyday and Shopping for someone Wear a vegan reminder and women’s fair-labor vegan for style is equaled by her passion start a conversation wherever you go. footwear and much more. Choose for animals? Starling and Ivy has you Red Panda’s Closet produces vegan from a variety of vegan products covered with unique, high-quality jewelry with meaning and custom for everyone on your list, and and eco-friendly designer accessories gifts with a message. All items they’ll donate 10 percent of every she’ll love, with 15 percent of are handmade in Austin, TX using sale to non-profit vegan and proceeds benefiting animal advocacy. recyclable, eco-friendly materials. animal-rights causes. Shop their online store! > redpandascloset.com > thevegsite.com > starlingandivy.com > 737-346-5635 > 860-519-1918
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