Have a free-from festive feast with our 2025 top picks.

Starting the festive season by checking the ingredients list of everything you buy? Whether you've ditched the dairy or getting rid of gluten, Jenna Farmer shares her top festive free-from buys to add to your trolley.

Well & Truly Cracker

Free from: gluten free, dairy free (vegan friendly)

This cracker from Well & Truly contains 10 delicious milk alternative chocolate truffles, which combines oat milk with a hazelnut salted caramel flavour. The brand uses ethically sourced, single origin cocoa and is perfect for those who are gluten free, plant-based or both!

Well & Truly Christmas Cracker, £10, Ocado.

Fairfields Farm Honey Roasted Chesnut and Sage

Free from: gluten free, dairy free (vegan friendly)

Fairfields Farm are known for their gluten-free, vegan crisps and their latest christmas edition is the taste of christmas wrapped up crunchy, addictive handcooked potato crisps.

Their brand-new, limited-edition flavour for this year is Honey Roasted Chestnut & Sage, and combines sweet and savoury perfectly to provide a perfect addictive festive snack.

Fairfields Farm Honey Roasted Chestnut and Sage: £19.20 (for a box of 10 150g share bags), https://fairfieldsfarmcrisps.co.uk/pages/shop

Rude Health Hazelnut and Pistachio Barista Drinks

Free from: vegan

Rude Health has unveiled two new products: Pistachio and Hazelnut Barista Drinks. Both made from simply roasted nuts blended with oats, a pinch of salt and natural spring water , these creamy, nutty drinks work perfectly for an indulgent latte or hot chocolate.

Rude Health Barista Pistachio and Rude Health Barista Hazelnut are available at Waitrose.

Catherine's Original Selection Tin

Free from: gluten free, dairy free (Vegan)

Whilst free-from chocolate has improved dramatically over the years, it doesn't mean we don't feel a pang of jealousy when we see someone whip out the Quality Streets on Boxing Day. Enter Catherine's Original Selection tin, all chocs inside are gluten-free, 100% plant-based, RSPO certified, fairly traded Cocoa and the packaging is fully recyclable.

The tin includes nine delicious flavours, including: The Cookie Muncher, a tasty plant-based take on a classic Milky Way; Popped Cherry, with a cherry centre and  Bite-me-Balls ( a semi-sphere filled with smooth vegan caramel)l Tease Me ( a vegan honeycomb with a tongue teasing crunch) , and lavender inflused Baby I’m Blue. A real game changer and you'd never guess these were free from!

Catherine's Original Vegan Chocolate Selection Box: £13.30, https://catherinesoriginals.com

Festive Fatso Feast Bundle (vegan)

Free From: Some Fatso bars are vegan (all in their vegan bundle) and some don't contain gluten or nut ingredients (but you'll need to check the packaging).

Fatso makes ethically sourced, single-origin dark chocolate from Colombia and are known for their unique flavour combinations. Their Christmas offering is a Festive Feast Bundle, which wraps up three of their bars, and you can choose to make this vegan bundle. Flavours include King's Ransom (with delicious mint and cocoa nibs) and Morn'n Glory with crunchy cornflakes and marmalade.

Festive Fatso Feast Bundle: £21, from FATSO

Squeaky Bean launches two new vegetable pies

Free from: vegan

Squeaky Bean's new range of delicious, naturally fermented vegetable pies not only rich in flavour but also packed with plant-based ingredients with gut friendly goodness.

Squeaky Bean's Braised Veggie Pie features shortcrust pastry filled with a flavourful medley of fermented vegetables, in a rich ale gravy, topped with golden puff pastry. 

Squeaky Bean's Spanish Chorizo Style Pie features a shortcrust pastry base packed with butter beans, courgettes, and a fermented vegetable filling, topped with golden puff pastry.

Squeaky Bean Braised Veggie Pie (209g) and Spanish Chorizo Style Pie (209g) are available in Tesco (RRP £3.75).

Palace Culture vegan cheeses.

Free from: vegan, dairy free, gluten free.

Palace Culture's award-winning plant based cheese are perfect for any festive cheese board. Flavours include Chives & Shallots Cream Cheeze, 120g, including Kimcheeze 120g, and Mouldy Goaty 120g (Each RRP: £5.95),

Palace Culture is avaliable from Waitrose.

Heart & Soul | 4.4% Gluten Free Session IPA 330ml

Free from: vegan, gluten-free

This delicious beer from ndependent craft brewer Vocation won Gold in the 2024 World Beer Awards, and we can see why. Both gluten-free and vegan, this 4.4% ABV session IPA is refreshing and full of flavour, making it the perfect beer drink for those who are gluten free.

Heart & Soul by Vocation is available from Sainsbury’s, Co-op and Waitrose.

Hydes Cyder Christmas Gift Packs

Free from: gluten, vegan, alcohol free (Hydes Lte only- 0.5% ABV)

Hampshire Premium, wild-fermented, and hand-crafted cider offers two free from festive gifts for you to enjoy giving this festive season.

The original Hydes Cyder is a lightly carbonated, medium-dry cider with 5% alcohol by volume. It has a light palate and features pronounced apple and citrus aromas, resulting in a full flavour with a long, smooth, and refreshing finish, showcasing bold apple notes.

Hydes Lyte is a premium cider with just 0.5% ABV, making it considered alcohol-free. It is expertly crafted using the original Hydes Cyder as a base and finished using unique methods to create a true cider experience without the alcohol. The result is a lightly carbonated alcohol-free cider with almost identical notes to its alcoholic sibling.

Hydes Cyder and Hydes Lyte are also gluten-free and suitable for both vegetarians and vegans.

Hydes Cyder and Hyder Lyte gift packs; £15, Hydes

Finca Lalande Organic Malbec

Free from: Vegan

This organic, vegan 100% Malbec is one of our favourite wines to reach for this Christmas. Offering rich aromas with notes of blackberry fruit and spicy black pepper, this layered red goes perfect with meat dishes or poured for a cosy night in.

Finca Lalande Organic Malbec 2024, Tupungato, Mendoza: Waitrose at £12