Looking for some items to make your home more fun while you are sheltering in place? Here are 15 fun foodie-approved items to make staying in spicy.
Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic, millions upon millions of people (if not billions) are currently quarantined in their homes with lots of uncertainty going around. But everyone needs to stay nourished and entertained, and many online retailers are still shipping the majority of their pre-COVID catalogs. Here are 15 fun foodie-approved items you gotta have.
Below are 15 items that are still available for order and likely to keep you nourished and entertained at home.
Doris Range Pads
Doris Range Pads were invented by Doris, a homemaker and a mother from Bochum, Germany. Realizing the need of a simple product for hassle free cleanliness, Doris came up with the idea of multiple-featured pads that are heat, abrasion and corrosion-resistant. When cooking, food may splash on the range top, and eventually harden, and this product aims to keep you from having to clean stove tops and shield you from both food-splashing and already-warm range tops.
The pads are made of heavy-duty high temperature silicon, designed to be placed directly over the burner. They are designed in shapes of a standard range top, to be connected together like a puzzle. They can withstand up to 480 degrees Fahrenheit, are dishwasher-safe, and they can be easily cleaned with soap and water.
RIGWA Bowls
RIGWA’s bowls are aimed to be “your most versatile bowl.” The RIGWA 1.5 keeps warm items warm for up to 4 hours and cold items cold for up to 8 hours. With their airtight seal, they are spill-proof yet also easy to open with 2 fingers. They store up to 1.5 quarts sweat-free, and material-wise, they are both BPA-free and made of food-grade stainless steel.
Minnidip
Minnidip is the first inflatable pool with designer chops to hit the market. Created in Chicago by Emily Vaca of the La Vaca design house, these Instagram-worthy pools offer up a cool place to splash down while elevating your backyard decor. If you’re looking for the next best way to party at home or keep the kids occupied — — they fit up to 3 adults with patterns ranging from festive and fun to upscale chic — Minnidip has tons of beautiful options to fit your dream backyard theme and needs.
Sonoma Wool Company’s Wool Dish Drying Mat
Business partners Joe Pozzi and Amy Chesnut share a passion for land and everything it provides. Pozzi is fourth-generation rancher in Marin and Sonoma Counties, California, and brings with him an expertise in all things wool. Chesnut is a former land conservationist, and supports the viability of working lands and agriculture. Looking for a way to share her love of wool products with the world, Chesnut bought a felting loom and began experimenting with Pozzi Wool, founding the Sonoma Wool Company in 2013.
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Drying dishes is a breeze with the Sonoma Wool Company’s Wool Dish Drying Mat With Linen Sleeve. You can eliminate the synthetics and plastics around your sink area and take comfort in these all-natural fibers as wool is simultaneously sustainable, breathable and water-wicking.
Meatless Farm Co
The Meatless Farm Co is a mission-driven, sustainable plant-based food company. Pioneers of texture and taste, the Meatless Farm Co’s team of chefs and nutritionists are dedicated to making fresh plant-based meat alternatives that taste delicious, are easy to cook and are better for the planet.
Its current line of meat-free ground and meat-free patties are gluten-free, made from non-GMO ingredients, and have 21 grams of protein per serving. As an added bonus, its products take less than 10 minutes to cook, making them ideal meal additions.
Lil Bucks
Emily Griffith has found the one superfood that is not on every influencers’ radar… yet. Griffith fell in love with sprouted buckwheat while living in Australia. She moved back home to Chicago and brought this crunchy superfood creation with her. Thus, Griffith launched Lil Bucks, the first dedicated sprouted buckwheat brand in the USA.
Lil Bucks is here to top your smoothie bowl, ice cream and toasts or add some crunch to your oatmeal, salad, sweet potato and scrambled eggs. Lil Bucks is gluten-free, vegan and paleo, and it has 10x more antioxidants than quinoa. With 5 grams of fiber and 6 grams of plant-based protein, Lil Bucks is a raw food delight. In addition, it’s a fruit seed, not a grain. Lil Bucks is currently available in three flavors: OG, Cacao Pow and Matcha.
BetterBody Foods’ Plant Junkie
BetterBody Foods — the same company that brings you PBfit — recently unveiled a new Amazon-ready line of plant-based condiments that are 100 percent plant-based, vegan-friendly and delicious. Offering a variety of salad dressings and mayonnaise alternatives, Plant Junkie is dairy, egg, soy, nut and gluten-free, making Plant Junkie the go-to options for those with food allergies.
Plant Junkie’s range of salad dressings feature ranch dressings made with avocado oil and vinaigrettes made with expeller-pressed canola oil. These offerings include Plant Junkie Plant Based Thai Peanut Vinaigrette, Plant Junkie Plant Based Chia Ranch, and Plant Junkie Plant Based Pomegranate Chili.
Soul Grind Cold Brew Coffee
Vertically-integrated cannabis company Caliva recently introduced Soul Grind, a broad-spectrum hemp-CBD unsweetened cold brew coffee. Dr. Han and the Vertosa team created an emulsion system for infusing the Hexachlorobutadiene (hCBD), resulting in maximum absorption.
Available in Black, Mexican Chocolate and Vanilla flavors, each 8 fl. oz can of Soul Grind is composed of organic cold brew with 100 mg caffeine and 10 mg broad-spectrum hCBD, a delicate formula deliberately designed to balance the energizing effects of caffeine with calming hCBD. Soul Grind is available nationwide online, as well as in select stores in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.
The GlenDronach Revival 15 Year Old Single Malt Scotch
Revered by single malt Scotch whisky connoisseurs around the world, this offering from GlenDronach was re-released in 2018 following a three-year wait. It xemplifies The GlenDronach’s rich depths of sherry wood maturation, continuing the legacy set out by distillery founder James Allardice in 1826, marrying Highland spirit to Spanish oak.
Notably, earlier this year the GlenDronach Revival 15 Year Old Single Malt Scotch was named the “Best In Show Whiskey” at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition. The SFWSC is distinguished for its esteemed judges representing renowned experts in the industry. Its 2020 Competition was another record-breaking year that featured almost 3,000 entries from all around the world.
Book: Katherine Alford & Kathy Gunst’s Rage Baking
These days, baking can be an outlet for expressing our feelings about the current state of our society. Rage Baking speaks to both skilled and beginner bakers who are looking for new ways to use their sweetest skills to combine food and activism. Altogether, Rage Baking offers more than 50 cookie, cake, tart, and pie recipes as well as inspirational essays, reflections, and interviews with well-known bakers and impassioned women and activists.
Participants within Alford and Gunst’s book include Dorie Greenspan, Ruth Reichl, Carla Hall, Preeti Mistry, Julia Turshen, Pati Jinich, Vallery Lomas, Von Diaz, and Genevieve Ko.
Book: Doug Evans’ The Sprout Book
The Sprout Book is intended to serve as a transformative plan to empower readers to embark on a plant-based way of eating that’s both low-cost and accessible. With a foreword by Joel Fuhrman, M.D., this book introduces sprouts — one of the most nutritious sustainable foods on earth — by adding a few dishes to a diet and then shifting into a raw, whole foods plant-based diet.
The 40 recipes included feature sprouts on top of raw vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, spices, sea vegetables, and top-quality cold-pressed vegetable oils for the healthiest diet possible. The Sprout Book also includes informative interviews with leaders in functional medicine and nutrition. In turn, expect to be able to use the book to change your diet and super-charge your health.
Sonoma-Cutrer’s V’18 Russian River Valley Pinot Noir Woodford Reserve Barrel Finish
The Sonoma-Cutrer Winemakers Release is a series of limited-production wines offered annually and consisting of unique expressions that showcase the craftsmanship and innovation. As a classic Russian River Pinot Noir, this wine expresses aromas and flavors of lush red and black berry fruit.
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As you swirl the wine in your glass, you will open up scents of vanilla, baking spices, brown sugar and maple from the Woodford Reserve barrels mingling with licorice, dark chocolate, black tea with just a hint of earth. Sonoma-Cutrer’s V’18 Russian River Valley Pinot Noir Woodford Reserve Barrel Finish is available now in select markets and online for a suggested retail price of $49.99.
The Great Brain Cell Sacrifice Wine
The Great Brain Cell Sacrifice was founded by two creative execs at Droga5, one of the most awarded ad agencies in the world, who both have children in the New York City public school system and saw firsthand the shortfalls in funding amid a national literary crisis. They wanted to make it so that every time you open a bottle of wine, you are donating books to kids in America. So while you might be harming a few brain cells, you are helping to build a brighter future for kids. They partner with non-profit organization Books for Kids to make this happen.
With the current closures of schools across the U.S., getting underprivileged kids access to books is more important than ever. Over 8.5 million American children lack access to the literacy resources they need to learn to read. The Great Brain Cell Sacrifice is a wine that was founded so that every bottle sold helps kids in underfunded communities learn to read.
They are now directing all their donations to provide children with much-needed literary resources while they’re out of school to support them in their journey to literacy. For every six bottles sold, a “home library” of six books will go to the children who need them most — those in isolation who are in homes without books, who now have no access to their schools or libraries, and may not for the rest of the school year.
The Great Brain Cell Sacrifice offers organically-farmed 2018 Pinot Noir, an elegant, textured wine from top Santa Barbara producer Lieu Dit; A pure-flavored, expressive 2018 Chenin Blanc which gives you a sense of chalk, and its 2019 Rosé which is produced from excess juice of the winery’s Pinot Noir. In Los Angeles and New York City, same-day delivery is powered by Ohi, the micro fulfillment platform for e-commerce brands enabling fast, same-day delivery.
Modified Theory
Modified Theory is a brand new all-natural crafted hard beverage, as launched last month in 32 states and Washington D.C. The brand essentially blurs the lines of adult beverage categories, with a nod toward craft cocktails and mixology, and an appreciation for the artistry and individuality of flavor mixing in food and beverage.
Made with all-natural ingredients and no preservatives, this crafted malt beverage is blended with fruits, herbs and spices to create a versatile drink that can be served on its own, over ice or mixed with your favorite liquor for a ready-to-go cocktail. Its available delicious flavors include Tahitian Lime Agave, Northwest Berry Lavender and Tarocco Orange Vanilla.
Segura Viudas Cava
Founded in 1959, vine growth on the Segura Viudas estate dates back to the 12th century. Over the years, the winery has combined the estate’s legacy with a refined approach to viticulture and winemaking to produce sophisticated and approachable Cavas from the renowned D.O. Penedès region of Spain, just outside of Barcelona.
In the 1980s, the estate was purchased by the Ferrer family—whose traditional method sparkling winemaking expertise remains unparalleled—and Segura Viudas was incorporated into the Freixenet Mionetto USA portfolio in 2018.
Segura Viudas is also committed to viticultural practices that preserve harmony and biodiversity in the vineyard and sustainability of the environment; it has Wineries For Climate Change-certified since 2017). Still available nationwide, the flagship U.S. portfolio of Segura Viudas includes Segura Viudas Brut Cava ($12), Segura Viudas Brut Rosé Cava ($12), and Segura Viudas Reserva Heredad Cava ($30).
Well Told’s Topography Glassware line
Your travel plans may be on hold, but with Well Told, we can always remember the places we’ve been. With a variety of classic glass styles and a list of international cities available — from Barcelona to Hong Kong to Paris — it’s a perfect and unique way to show off your worldliness and all the places that have special meaning. Exotic locales aside, I personally was psyched to see that Well Told had a glass dedicated to Long Beach, California, which I had the pleasure of visiting last year.
In terms of the map-oriented glasses, each intricately designed map wraps entirely around the glass and extends from top to bottom, achieving a striking effect that makes any beverage more fun to prepare, serve, and drink. And because the map is engraved into the surface of the glass, the result is a work of art that has a truly unique look and feel and is designed to last a lifetime. In turn, high-quality and functional glassware that is also visually stunning.
Which of these foodie-approved items will you be ordering to make your home life more fun as you shelter in place?