Stocking fillers are often the last piece of the festive gift puzzle, completing your seasonal shopping. And whether the concept of smaller presents is a long-held family tradition or you’ve recently introduced the notion, these offerings can be meaningful and given with thought and love, every bit as much as the larger items. So you can do much better than a hastily grabbed chocolate orange!
Equally, these presents don’t have to be mass-produced or bought on the High Street. Save time and money by shopping online (and avoid town-centre parking), with a small, independent trader with proven ethical and environmental credentials, and find unique stocking fillers your recipients will adore.
Shop at Ganesha for Christmas
Family-run Ganesha Wholefoods has been in the business for getting on for five decades, so when it comes to wholefoods and organic products, we know what we’re doing.
- Packed choc-a-block with treats!
Top up your loved ones’ stockings with our decadent chocolate offerings from leading brands. Norfolk-based Booja Booja, for example, is an indie maker of chocolate truffles and ice cream, all of it vegan, organic and dairy and gluten-free. (Plus it’s being going 25-odd years.) Check out their deeply chocolate or orange chocolate truffles. (You might want to remind the recipient that they’re ideal for sharing!)
Or how about honeycomb caramel, salted caramel, hazel nut crunch, around midnight espresso or champagne truffles to delight the tastebuds?
Meanwhile, Clipper, established 40 years ago, is known for its fair, natural and delicious teas – but we offer their luxurious, velvety hot chocolate.
Then there’s Montezuma, founded in 2000 in Brighton by a couple who were inspired by their travels in South America. Now the brand produced everyone’s favourite confection in bar, truffle, button and drinking form, with a high cocoa content. We’ve got many of their products in exciting and unusual flavours, from chilli to dark choc orange and geranium, lime and sea salt, salted caramelised hazelnuts, ginger, Black Forest cherry and butterscotch, in both dark and milk varieties. Prefer some oversized dark or milk choc buttons? We sell dark and milk versions.
We also stock Tony’s Chocolonely, established by a group of Dutch journalists who found the world’s biggest chocolate producers were using modern slavery and child labour on their cocoa plantations. From this brand, we have products including their Extra Dark and Dark Almond Sea Salt bars.
If you know someone’s a caffeine fiend, you could also complete their pressie haul with a pack of Grumpy Mule coffee – we do a number of these including decaf plus organic Colombian, a smooth-tasting brew that’s decidedly moreish.
- Heaven-scent aromatherapy products
Stress-busting aromatherapy oils yield many benefits, from improved mood, energy levels, digestion and sleep, sickness relief, plus a better quality of life generally. Our handpicked line-up of oils, sprays and roller balls can be used in different ways to support mental and physical wellbeing.
Take your pick from a huge range of scents and concentrations – from lavender essential oil to sweet almond oil, organic rosehip, chamomile flower water spray plus tea tree, eucalyptus and argan oils. Pick up a few, either for different stockings or to give one person a selection, whether they’re new to aromatherapy or have loved it for a while.
- Hair and skincare products
Rather than settling for the first pack of bath salts you find, take a closer look at our organic haircare and skincare range. Again, we offer top brands such as Faith in Nature, which makes award-winning natural beauty products. For some of their offerings, including the grapefruit and orange, wild rose or shea and argan shampoos, plus the dragon fruit body wash (and the coconut one), we sell five-litre refills which you could decant into some nice recycled glass bottles which you could decorate with glitter and ribbon and then give several recipients the same thing. (Not forgetting to keep some for yourself!)
House of Mistrys has been going for more than 40 years. Try their nourishing Vitamin E cream.
Plus we stock Lavera, the German brand whose emphasis is on being natural, eco-friendly and cruelty-free. Check out items such as their indulgent body wash, or delicate body lotion infused with organic wild rose and shea butter, or the gorgeous hand cream and mask. The rich Repair SOS hand cream also makes a cracking stocking gift.
Know someone jetting off for some winter sun? Slip in a tube of Aloe Vera sun lotion among their smaller gifts – we have SPF 15 and 25. Meanwhile, the Aloe Vera skin gel provides replenishing skincare with purifying tea tree oil.
Order your stocking gifts from Ganesha online
We have three physical stores in Devon; in Sidmouth, Honiton and Axminster, and always love welcoming and chatting to customers there. But if you’re not local or passing through, you can order all the goods mentioned above (and more) via our user-friendly website. From free shipping on orders worth over £40 and speedy delivery taking no more than four working days, we offer a great online shopping experience.
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