The food Christmas gift guide

You can't go wrong with a gift they can eat or drink, and this year our Foodhalls are bursting with thoughtful ways to spoil them. Whether they'll love that viral treat everyone's been talking about, something delicious to drink, or a beautifully packaged panettone, we've got spot-on gifts in the bag. Stock up now with our editor's guide to all the best gifts in the Foodhall this season.

Best get-ahead food gifts

Stock up on these tempting treats to keep on standby for last-minute guests, those gifts you always forget, or unexpected visitors.

• Our light-up tins are always a massive hit, and this year they're as magical as ever. Pick up our Luxury Gold Light up Tea House, cute Light up House Tree Decoration with Truffles, or vegan Plant Kitchen Dark Chocolate, Cranberry and Orange Cookies Light up Tin.

• Our Salted Caramel and Chocolate Chunk Cookies Tin is filled with chocolate-covered chocolate chip and salted caramel fudge cookies, while our Santa Jack-in-a-Box Musical Tin has a fun wind-up mechanism and plays a festive tune.

Best foodie stocking fillers

Fill their stockings with these under-£5 gifts or leave a treat on the desk of your favourite work colleague.

• If they love all things pistachio, they'll have our Collection Pistachio Gnomes on their list – hand-decorated milk and blond chocolate with a pistachio filling.

• How about a cute Hot Chocolate Bombe to make the ultimate cosy festive drink?

• This vintage Christmassy car tin is filled with fruity jelly presents.

• Spencer Bear is back, and this time he's got his winter snowboard ready.

• Our prettily packaged Swiss Santa Dispenser comes with 12 bars made from creamy Swiss chocolate in tempting flavours.

• A bag of festive Colin and Connie the Caterpillars Christmas Time is a stocking non-negotiable.

The best drinks gifts

Looking for gift ideas for budding mixologists and cocktail geeks? We've got you.

• Our bar-quality The Marksologist Seville Orange Gin Cocktail is a heady combination of London Dry Gin, Seville Orange Marmalade, Orange Liqueur, Canadian Maple Syrup and VS Cognac. Serve over ice with a twist of orange.

• If they love a liqueur, they'll love our new Collection Chocolate and Cherry Flavour Irish Cream Liqueur. Made with Belgian chocolate and fresh cream from the Arrabawn creamery, it's like a Black Forest Gateau in a bottle.

• Fans of our iconic tinnies will enjoy this trio of our favourite The Marksologist pre-mixed cocktail cans – Cherry Mai Tai, Blood Orange Margarita and Salted Caramel Espresso Martini.

• Made with zesty Italian lemon peels, our Limoncello Liqueur comes in a beautifully illustrated ceramic bottle.

Best secret Santa gifts

£10 and under ideas to help you ace the office Secret Santa.

• Everyone will want to get their hands on one of our munch tins this year. As well as the return of last year's viral The Original Very Moreish Munch, this year our Peanut Butter and Jelly Munch, featuring peanut butter cups, fruity jellies, caramel peanuts, crunchy pretzel sticks, milk chocolate popcorn and white chocolate malt balls.

• Stateside-inspired goodies, like our moreish Peppermint Bark or Caramel Crunch tins, will go down a treat.

• Let them enjoy their favourite festive flavours – think mandarin, clove and cinnamon – in scent form with a festive candle.

The best chocolate gifts

• Look out for our Enchanted Winter Wonderland in store from 1 October – a magical illustrated chocolate box filled with milk, white, dark and blond chocolates, which twinkles and plays a Christmassy carol as it opens.

• Stock up on cute peanut butter-filled milk chocolate reindeer, our must-try Maple Caramel Whip and Cookie Dough Snowballs, in store from 1 October.

• Chocolate connoisseurs will love our Collection Single Origin Chocolate and Choc Marks Library.

Best gifts for foodies

Stock their storecupboard with edible goodies to elevate the flavour of festive dishes.

• Our Sticky Fig and Hot Honey Chutney and Apricot and Sauternes Fruit for Cheese will elevate their cheeseboard.

• They can use our Collection Mulled Fruits for Wine to make mulled wine, of course, but it's also brilliant in desserts and cocktails.

• Our Peaches in Cognac are heaven spooned over vanilla ice cream.

• Need a great gift for a coffee lover? Our 100% Arabica Christmas Ground Coffee Blend will hit the spot.

Best gifts to bring as a guest

Whether you want to thank them for hosting Christmas dinner, or looking for something different to bring to a seasonal get-together, these gifts will guarantee you best guest status.

• In store from 5 November, our Collection Cherry and Single Origin Chocolate Panettone is made in Italy according to a traditional family recipe, loaded with chocolate and cherries, and comes in a gorgeous keepsake tin.

• A bottle of top-quality olive oil, like our Collection Sicilian Nocellara Del Belice Extra Virgin Olive Oil, is a great alternative to wine.

• That said, you can't go wrong with a carefully chosen bottle – anything from our expert's pick of the best Christmas wines will go down well.