2025 Second Harvest Holiday Gift Guide

This holiday season, we’re celebrating care for one another, for our communities and for the planet we share. Our 2025 Holiday Gift Guide brings together meaningful gifts from our partners alongside simple, low-waste ideas you can make or give from the heart.

We wish you a holiday season filled with peace, warmth and care.

Cozy Gifts That Give Back & Create Less Waste

The Cookware Set by Kilne

For the friend or family member who loves hosting, the one who’s always planning the next dinner party or Sunday roast, the Cookware Set is the ultimate gift. With premium non-stick performance, Italian craftsmanship, and a design that transitions seamlessly from stovetop to oven to table, it’s made for entertaining in style. The set includes The Ceramic Pan and Pot plus their mini counterparts, a Non-Stick Steamer, Wooden Utensil Set, two Trivets, and a Magnetic Cookware Storage System with Fabric Lid Organizer for effortless organization.

A lasting, practical gift that helps turn simple ingredients into shared meals. Each set provides 10 meals through Second Harvest.

Handmade Watercolour Cards

A simple, heartfelt way to share warmth.

Soy Candles from Brightfield

Brightfield's Evergreen Candle and Diffuser Set captures the nostalgic and uplifting scent of a real Christmas tree. With notes of balsam fir, pine, and eucalyptus, it smells like Christmas morning and will help spark joy this holiday season.

A gentle glow for winter evenings. Pair with a homemade treat or note. Every candle provides 3 meals through Second Harvest.

DIY Soup Mix in a Jar

Layer pantry staples like dried beans and lentils with herbs, spices and bouillon cubes. Pair with a handwritten recipe to create a nourishing, low-waste gift.

Fair Trade Kitchen Linens from Cooks who Feed

At Cooks Who Feed, we create fair-trade kitchen linens with a meal giveback. We fulfill this promise by sharing revenues with our charity partners that provide immediate hunger relief. To date, we've provided close to 2 million meals to those suffering from food insecurity.

Our flagship product, our handcrafted canvas aprons, provides 100 meals for every apron sold. Many of our aprons have been designed in collaboration with well-known celebrity chefs, including Vikram Vij, Brooke Williamson, Amanda Freitag and Christine Cushing.

Homemade Treats or Preserves

Share cookies, bread or preserves in reusable jars or tins to cut waste.

Natural Skin Care from Farmacy

WICKED Clean Kit: A gentle yet powerful, limited-edition cleansing balm made in collaboration with WICKED! on Broadway. Featuring one green and one pink version of our cult-favorite balm, which magically transforms into a milky oil that effortlessly melts away makeup, SPF, excess oil + impurities. Oz's best super greens-powered formula leaves skin smoothified, hydrated + soft.

Deep Double Cleanse Duo: Farmacy’s best-selling Green Clean Cleansing Balm (30ml) and pH-balanced Green Clean Whipped Foaming Cleanser (50ml). A 2-step double cleansing kit that works in harmony to meltaway makeup, spf and excess oil while purifying pores for soft & balanced skin.

An Hour (or a few) of Help

Offer babysitting, a home-cooked meal, snow shovelling or an errand run. A zero-waste experience gift that strengthens community.

Thoughtfully Thrifted Finds

Pre-loved books, mugs, puzzles, or textiles carry warmth and character.

Full Flavour Hot Sauce by Red Cap Hot Sauce Co.

This season, Red Cap Hot Sauce Co. is giving back with a donation to Second Harvest for every bottle sold. Red Cap does not water-down their sauce, but instead they put "flavour first, heat second." Made from local Ontario-grown scotch bonnet and habanero peppers (when in season), and complemented with red bell pepper, celery, cilantro, a herb called culantro or shadow beni and fresh squeezed lemon and lime juice.

Delicious on everything from morning eggs to hearty winter dishes, it’s a bold, small-batch gift for the foodie in your life.

A Donation in Someone’s Honour

This month, thanks to generous matching campaigns, throughout December your gift will go twice as far, meaning every $1 you give provides enough food for 10 meals. Thank you!