Gifts with good in mind for all, including your wallet.

1. GIVE FROM THE HEART

Homemade gifts, no matter how frugal, always strike a chord because it's clear that you spent one of your most valuable resources…your time. Our Holidays 2010 site has simple "Gifts from the Kitchen" recipes (with printable gift tags).

2. PRESENT GREAT TASTE

Gifts of food or body care are always well received. Here are some tips and ideas:

• For a foodie, an exceptional item with a card (and perhaps a gift card, too) such as Fleur de Sel French Caramels, Bouchard Belgian Chocolate Collection or Isigny Ste. Mère Brie with fig spread.
• For a household or business group, pull together a collection of goodies to make gift basket with a theme, like local foods, Italian supper, tea time, snack time or bath time.
• For someone somewhere else, order a gift box of the same high quality products you find in our stores. Just purchase the gift box online and we'll ship it right to their door.
• For your own sanity and savings, use an assembly line method at home to make gift baskets for a dozen different households or groups. Take advantage of better pricing with bulk-bin snacks, multipacks and our buy-by-the-case discounts on almost everything in the store.

3. WASTE NOT

Whole Foods Market® gift cards make sure the recipients get just what they want — no re-gifting, no returns — and of excellent quality, if we may say so ourselves.

4. SIDESTEP, SURPRISE AND DELIGHT

Instead of showing up at the door with a typical host/ess gift, make them smile with something for their kids or pet. Our natural and organic pet and children's toys and treats are worry free. Or make homemade Peanut Butter Dog Treats for all the dog lovers on your list.

5. SHARE THE LOVE…OF HEALTHY FOOD!

Gift a healthy eating cookbook or put together a recipe box or binder with Health Starts Here™ recipes from our website and a list of your favorite healthy eating tips and foods.

6. LIGHT UP A LIFE

Long-burning beeswax or soy-based pillar candles make beautiful, practical gifts that can last and last.

7. BE ENCOURAGING

Jumpstart someone's January fitness resolutions by helping them get ready with a yoga or Pilates DVD. Make it actually happen by committing to exercise with them.

8. FEEL GOOD ABOUT WHAT YOU GIVE

A gift that you believe in is worth all the more. Whole Trade™ chocolate and flowers are great examples because they are committed to ethical trade and the environment as well as the highest quality. Plus 1% of sales goes to Whole Planet Foundation!

9. WRAP SAVVY

You might not realize how much you spend on wrapping paper and ribbons until you get your credit card statement. Try these ideas instead:

• Place your gift in a cute reusable bag that is a gift in itself and one that keeps giving. Here are the top 10 reasons to use our "A Better Bag" instead of gift wrap.
• Reuse bows, ribbon and boxes from previous gifts or buy a skein of pretty yarn and use to secure brown-paper-bag wrapped gifts for a trendy "Martha" look.
• Get creative with wrapping paper, using children's art, brown paper bags, comics, crossword puzzles, posters, sheet music, maps, dish towels, etc.

10. GIVE A GIFT THAT GIVES MORE AND CAN COST YOU LESS!

Many people these days are simplifying their lives with less "stuff." Help them out with a gift that means more without adding more clutter.

• Our Whole Planet Foundation™ calendar costs only $2 and includes more than $20 in coupons! All money goes to support micro-lending in areas of the world where we source our products.
• Give a bottle of vitamins, and tell the story! Look for the Vitamin Angels symbol on certain supplements from companies that donate a portion of sales to Vitamin Angels, which helps save children from disease and blindness. Learn more about the great work of Vitamin Angels.
• Help Share Our Strength's "No Kid Hungry" campaign that addresses childhood hunger in the U.S. Simply buy a gift card online. During December we're donating $1.00 to Share Our Strength for each gift card you buy online! Read more about "No Kid Hungry."