Healthy Twists

The winner of my giveaway is: #64 (using random.org)

Missy @ Missy Maintains! Congrats, girl. Your gift of some of my favorite goodies is on the way…tell me what you think about the PB&J chocolate bar because I’m SO curious.

In case anyone else was looking for fun, inexpensive gifts to make for friends and family this holiday season, here’s a list of the suggestions people submitted as part of my giveaway. I wanted to give some link love to the bloggers who entered my contest (if I missed you, let me know!) because through this contest I found some awesome new blogs! Always love that.

Inexpensive, Homemade Holiday Gifts

We gave our family little pound cakes one year tied with a card that said we’d donated to a food bank. It didn’t cost us nearly as much as 10x gifts would have. I don’t think they took it very well though. –Kath

My fave non expensive holiday gift is pictures! I haven’t read enough of your blog yet to know if you have kids or a significant other, but take the pic youself, go somewhere and have it blown up and that will be a cherished gift that can be kept forever! –Denise

Maybe you can buy some ring blanks (cheap) and then glue some random trinkets to them… Ta-da! Rings. LOL –Harley

You could always put upload pictures to CVS or a nicer photography place (Kodak, or a store near you) and make mugs, or placemats, or hats or whatever you would like with specific pictures on them of family and friends. Some places will even make photobooks for you!  Ally

If you have a picture printer, print a pic of you and the recipient, or just a really good one of them, and send it in a nice Christmas/Hanukkah card. Or get cheap frames at the Christmas Tree Shop.  –Carla

I would say bake something cute for the holidays such as gingerbread cookies or pumpkin chocolate chip cookies! –MissyMaintains 

I might make nice jars of muesli/oatmeal bases as gifts for people since nobody I know in real life does anything more than add some milk and sugar to their oats. Dried fruit, nuts/seeds, chocolate chips, etc For non-foodie gifts… Buying some plain picture frames is good (I get cheap ones at IKEA) and making cool individualised collages to frame –insideiamdancing 

Framed photos always are a go to plan when you cant think of anything, or maybe a slideshow of digital pictures that your friends and family can display on their computers. –Linsdey

Ideas for cheap, meaningful gifts = framed photos, a mixed c.d. of someone’s fave songs or songs you think they’ll enjoy, you can print from your computer a very inspirational quote that you think would be meaningful to someone and print and frame it. –Annabel @ www.FeedMeImCranky.com

I’m too food-oriented to come up with anything else! I love love getting granola bark around the holidays–a nice way to not contribute to all the cookie dangers!–Sarah @ The Foodie Diaries 

Make cookie flowers! Make sugar cookies, frost them like flowers and attach to candy cane (rainbow, fruit flavored) as their stems! super cute, super cheap and everyone loved mine last year! –Lo

You should make these fleece, no-sew blankets. http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Make-a-Blanket They are super easy, and you can make them unique by picking out special fabric for each person. –Katie R

You could make personalized mirrors!! Kind of like the same concept of operation beautiful, you can take and average mirror and decorate it with affirmations, pictures, stickers, etc. –Kelsey

Rather than exchanging gifts each year, my family exchanges recipes. Every member picks their favorite recipe, writes/types it up very nicely on cool paper, then makes 30-something copies, and sends one to each family member. It’s very inexpensive and very neat to get a bunch of new recipes every year. –Emma

Handmade “green shopping bags”, I think it is very eco friendly and simple to make. There are many patterns online, you just print and cut the fabric according to the print and sew together. Maybe add a personal touch to each of the bag by sewing on their initials or just the first letter of their name? Everyone needs more “green shopping” bags. The Skinny Plate

How about making your own coupon books to give out? You could cut them out of magazines and newspapers or print them off your computer. –Laura

My sister makes homemade peppermint-chocolate bark each year- SO good and SO cheap (and everyone always loves it) –kk

I bought each of my friends a cute coffee mug that I thought they would like and stuck a $5 gift card to a local coffee house inside. the coffee mugs I got for $3 each, making each gift a cool eight bucks! the year before that, i bought everyone a book from Barnes&Noble, from the bargain priced books, i found a ton of cool books that were all under $10 each. –Janetha

I like doing frames or origami boxes filled with yummy candies! –Junghwa

I made my mom homemade teabags-it was really easy and cheap!! You can buy the bags and any flavor loose tea you like and tie a little string on each one and write what it is on a little paper…I mixed and matched an gave the teas stupid names, she loved them!!:) –Erica

You could give little handmade ornaments as a good Christmas present. my sister and i used to like take colored string, spray glue on it, run it through sprinkles and coil it around and it’s like an abstract ornament. =D or make cool ornaments with popsicle sticks- little trees and paint it green, or better yet, make little friendship bracelets or lanyards! –Tra

I think that framed photographs are a great gift. They can be photos of you or of beautiful things you capture with your camera. It doesn’t cost too much to print the photos, and you can get some very affordable frames (often with mats) at your local craft store. You could even decorate the frames a bit or write a caption across the bottom of the mat with a pretty pen. –Sweetie Pie 

Cookie mix in jars (all the dry ingredients with instructions), have calendars made with personal pictures for each month – I think craft stores/Wal-Mart booths do this?, dry soup mixes in jars with a ladle + instructions, scarves/knitting type things if you do that, cookbooks with your favorite recipes + pictures –brandi 

This year I will be making homemade granola and putting it in goodie bags, along with chocolate dipped waffle cones!! I also think candles are a nice gift, and stationary. Both of those NEVER get old. Also homemade magnets are fun. -Gina

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