Valentine's Day Gifts for Foodies

Valentine's Day is one of the best times to give a gift showing you know what makes your loved one tick. If your Valentine is a foodie, skip the tired drugstore chocolates and the clichéd bouquet of flowers. Here are some Valentine's Day gifts for foodies that will make your special someone swoon.

Beehive Kitchenware

Kitchenware makes great Valentine's Day gifts for foodies, especially when the items are as cute as these are. The designers at Beehive use high quality, lead-free pewter to handcraft items with some designs that are perfect for Valentine's Day, such as the Heart Tea Strainer, the Heart Pancake Spatula or the Heart Coffee Scoop.

Tre Olive

Every foodie knows that a kitchen is not complete without a bottle of quality olive oil. In addition, olive oil is good for the heart, which makes it an ideal addition to the list of Valentine's Day gifts for foodies. Rather than tying a ribbon around a bottle of EVOO, though, why not give your sweetheart a whole tree? Tre Olive makes it possible. When you adopt a tree from one of their Italian groves for a year, you will receive a certificate of adoption, a photograph of your tree and approximately three liters of olive oil from your tree and other neighboring trees.

DuneCraft I Love You Bean

What better way to wish a happy Valentine's Day to your favorite foodie than with food? DuneCraft's I Love You Bean starts life as an unassuming seed in a pink heart-adorned pot. Within a week's time, it starts to grow and when the bean sprouts it bears the words, "I love you" as a sweet surprise for your valentine.

Pampered Chef

Give back while giving Valentine's Day gifts for foodies with a little help from Pampered Chef. Pretty much anything from this popular brand would be a good choice, but when you purchase a lovely heart shaped trivet, Pampered Chef will donate 14 meals (Valentine's Day is February 14, get it?) to Feeding America.

Le Creuset

Another brand from which practically any product would make a much-loved gift, Le Creuset offers several items that make up their own list of Valentine's Day gifts for foodies, such as pink, covered, heart-shaped ramekins and a two-quart, deep red, heart-shaped casserole, also with a lid. Who knows? If you give one of these items as a gift, maybe you will receive a delicious meal in return.

For more ideas on gifts for foodies, check out Best Food Gifts for Foodies, Holiday Gifts for Foodies: Gadgets and Other Goodies and Christmas Gift Ideas: Ten Books a Foodie Would Love.