Brandless

Brandless has eliminated everything you hate about going to the grocery store by simplifying the way you shop. The online store is making everyday essentials readily available for just $3. By only offering a limited number of quality products at the same price, there's nothing to compare — saving you time and sanity. Because there's no sales or coupons, wasting money stocking up the pantry is now a thing of the past. Products include non-perishable food, household supplies, beauty, personal care items, and office supplies ranging from blueberry flax granola and organic cotton balls to measuring spoons and peppermint toothpaste. With an emphasis on providing only what matters, most of their products are organic, gluten-free, kosher, and non-GMO.

Maurten Drink Mix 320

Research shows that athletes can utilize as much as 90 grams of carbohydrates per hour. Maurten Drink Mix 320 gives you 80 grams in just 500 ml of water. Each sachet mixes with water to become a liquid sports drink containing a high concentration of maltodextrin and fructose. Through a unique process, it instantly becomes a hydrogel in the acid of your stomach, making it easier for you to absorb all the water, salt and carbohydrates found within. Each box includes 14 servings and is currently available exclusively in the EU.

Cappello's Pizza

Pizza is one of our favorite foods. While no pie is truly "healthy," Cappello's Pizza is about as close as you can come. It's free of gluten, grains, soy, and yeast, sits low on the glycemic index, and is made using all-natural, non-GMO ingredients like cage-free eggs, coconut oil, and arrowroot flour. Varieties include cheese, pepperoni, and sheep's milk cheese, as well as naked crusts for building your own, and they also make similarly wholesome cookie dough and pasta. Available in eight packs, all of which ship overnight in a custom reusable cooler.

Bee Raw Wildflower Honey Flight

Honey can be so much more than what comes out of the plastic bears you see at the store. This Bee Raw Wildflower Honey Flight gives you the chance to sample four different varietals, each with a unique character and flavor. The set includes vials containing raw honey tinged with on of these four flowers: Maine Raspberry, Colorado Star Thistle, Colorado Sweet Yellow Clover, California Wild Black Sage, or New York Basswood. They arrive in a gift-ready box, along with a handcrafted oak block for storage.

Tree Hive Maple Syrup

It can be difficult to find anything that isn't loaded with high-fructose corn syrup these days. So it's nice to see an option like Tree Hive Maple Syrup. It's not only high-fructose and table syrup free but is a natural blend of pure maple syrup and unfiltered American-bee honey infused with cinnamon and Madagascan bourbon vanilla. Use it on your waffles or pancakes or add it as a natural sweetener in the kitchen for baking or cooking.

Cosmik Freeze-Dried Ice Cream

Freeze-dried ice cream is nothing new — ask anyone who visited the National Air & Space Museum as a kid. Good freeze-dried ice cream, on the other hand, has been hard to find. Cosmik Freeze-Dried Ice Cream offers the same unmeltable, imminently packable benefits as the traditional stuff, but with far better results. It starts life in Brooklyn as 100% organic, ultra-premium ice cream then gets an added dash of sea salt added before spending a day in the freeze dryer. The result is a treat that never needs refrigerated, can be enjoyed anywhere, and comes in four delicious flavors.

Trees Knees Coffee Maple Syrup

Coffee and maple syrup are a classic flavor combination, and Trees Knees Coffee Maple Syrup mixes them together in a whole new way. It's crafted by hand in Brooklyn using maple syrup from the Catskill Mountains, infused with Stumptown Coffee Roasters Hair Bender Blend coffee. The resulting mixture offers flavors of chocolate, toffee, and cherry, and can add a kick to anything from pancakes to cocktails.

BurgaBox

The next time you decide to whip up some burgers for dinner, instead of flipping a few meat pucks on your grill and covering them with a bun from the grocery, treat yourself to something big. BurgaBox are more like the gourmet burgers you see featured on television from a restaurant nowhere near your house. BurgaBox ships the burgers — actually an entire meal kit — directly to your front door. One of their feasts includes enough meat for a couple of big burgers along with two pounds of mac and cheese and sides like fries, baked beans, and coleslaw. BurgaBox kits ship for free nationwide, with ingredients that are made from scratch and sent in insulated coolers with simple instructions.

Bill-E's Small Batch Bacon

As is the case with many things, bacon produced in small quantities offers a level of quality you won't find with mass-produced brands. Bill-E's Small Batch Bacon is made from carefully-sourced pigs, using only the best ingredients and techniques. The pork comes from pigs raised on Midwestern farms and is hand-cured for eight days in pink salt and brown sugar made from real molasses. Bill E turns the bellies every other day to further improve the flavor, before cold-smoking them in hickory for a sweet, savory, and tender result. Available by the pound, sliced or unsliced.

Blk Water

There's spring water, mineral water, tap water, and now there's Blk Water. Although it looks like something you'd drain out of your car's oil pan, this shadowy H20 is actually a mix of fulvic acid and pure Canadian spring water. The plant-based compound is mined from an 80 million-year-old source and allows for the rapid absorption of over 77 different minerals, electrolytes, and antioxidants, while also naturally giving the water its charcoal-hue. Free of sugar, caffeine, calories, and carbs and comes in a pack of 24, 8-ounce bottles.

Complements Modular Chocolate

Playing with your food is more than acceptable with Complements Modular Chocolate. A collaboration between design agency Universal Favourite and Bakedown Cakery, custom 3D printed molds create edible Legos that can be stacked in a variety of combinations to create your own unique candies. You can keep it classic with dark chocolate and strawberry, or put together something a little more interesting like pistachio and matcha. Other flavors include shortbread, black current, cookies and cream, fairy floss, cherry, watermelon, vanilla, and lemon.

Island Creek Oysters

You don't need to live near the sea to taste the ocean. Island Creek Oysters will ship fresh mollusks right to your door. Harvested daily and shipped overnight, they offer oysters grown on their Duxbury farm, as well as varieties from across an area encompassing New York, Boston, and greater New England. From simple samplers to their handy raw bar in a box, they've got selections to cover any type of gathering, and also offer an Oyster of the Month club for those that want to enjoy the freshness all year long.

Jose Gourmet Sardines

Far from their reputation as a polarizing pizza topping, sardines are actually a great source of protein, packed with Omega-3s and completely devoid of carbs. Jose Gourmet Sardines are a great way to enjoy this overlooked snack. They arrive in handsome packaging with custom artwork on the cover, and come in several different flavors, including smoked, soaked in olive oil with lemon, and our favorite, spicy with piri-piri pepper.

Paqui Carolina Reaper Tortilla Chip

Normally, you worry about eating the whole thing when you open a bag of chips. That won't be a problem here. The Paqui Carolina Reaper Tortilla Chip is made using the Carolina Reaper Pepper, also known as the hottest chili pepper on Earth. Bred by "Smokin" Ed Currie — who also helped create the chip's seasoning — the reaper has a heat rating of 1.57 million Scovilles, or over 78,000 times hotter than the hottest jalapeño you'll find. Also joining the fray are ghost peppers and chipotle seasoning, making the chip so incredibly spicy that it's sold one-at-a-time in its own coffin-shaped box.

Photos: Zachary J Johnston / Paqui

Sansaire Steak Aging Sauce

We all know dry aging creates incredibly flavorful, tender steaks. It also requires a commitment of time, space, and money that most of us don't have. Sansaire Steak Aging Sauce gives you the same flavor in as little time as it takes to cook a piece of meat. Just add a tablespoon for every pound of meat you have in your bag, cook your meat sous vide, and sear it when it's done. This mix of fish and soy sauces, molasses, and MSG for its glutamic acid gives a close approximation of the flavors you get via dry aging, but without the wait, and also provides added natural sugars to give your meat a golden crust when seared.

Impossible Burger

We're sure there's an eating challenge out there somewhere with the same name. But the Impossible Burger isn't so named because it's difficult to finish. It's named "Impossible" because you won't believe it can actually look, cook, and taste so much like beef without having any meat in it. Instead, it's made from a carefully-blended, exhaustively-tested mix of plants that gives you all the satisfaction of a traditional burger while using 95% less land, 74% less water, and putting off 87% less greenhouse gas emissions. Impossible, indeed. Currently available exclusively at Momofuku Nishi, with more spots coming in the future.

Defonce Cannabis Chocolate

Like Hershey's compared to Scharffen Berger, Defonce Cannabis Chocolate is far more than just a weed-packed candy bar. Formed by two long-term chocolate makers, the company focuses on quality instead of quantity, crafting delicate flavors with precise levels of both cacao and THC. As you might expect, the packaging is also attractive, only hinting at the easily-portioned, pyramidal bar inside.

Good To Go Gourmet Dehydrated Meals

Rarely do you see the words "dehydrated" and "gourmet" used together. Yet Good To Go Gourmet Dehydrated Meals are no joke. Designed for campers who love the freedom of a tent but crave real food, these bagged meals require nothing more than some boiling water and time to go from dry to delicious. They're made from real ingredients like fresh veggies and ground whole spices, portioned to keep your energy levels up, and come in a variety of dishes, including pad thai, mushroom risotto, and three bean chili.

Soylent Coffiest

Regular Soylent will keep you alive and healthy, but if you're used to enjoying a normal breakfast with a cup of coffee, switching solely to the liquid meal replacement can be a shock. Soylent Coffiest should help. Its plant-based formula provides 400 calories, or 20% of your daily nutritional requirements, via soy protein, algal oil for energy and essential fatty acids, and real, lightly-roasted coffee that not only provides the same caffeine as a 16 oz. cup of joe but also helps give the normally bland drink a bit of flavor. Available in pre-mixed bottles so you can slurp one down on the way to the gym, office, or lab.

Runamok Bourbon Barrel-Aged Maple Syrup

Give your breakfast a hint of smoke to go with the sweetness by pouring on some Runamok Bourbon Barrel-Aged Maple Syrup. To make this savory treat, they start with their best maple syrup — certified organic by Vermont Organic Farmers — then age it in just-emptied bourbon barrels, letting the liquid absorb the flavors of the bourbon without adding alcohol. Arrives in a 250ml bottle.

Epic Beef Tallow

Add a meaty punch to your next meal by cooking with Epic Beef Tallow. This rendered beef fat can be stored for long periods without the need for refrigeration, and reduces waste by using more of the whole animal. It comes in a handsome 12 oz. jar, and can be used for everything from biscuits and eggs to beef fat fries.

American Wagyu Tomahawk Steaks

They're not 100% wagyu, and they're certainly not Kobe, but these American Wagyu Tomahawk Steaks might still be the best cuts of meat you'll ever have. Hand cut by a master butcher from 100% natural cows that are a mix of wagyu and other breeds, each steak weighs about two and a half pounds, and arrives bone-in. They're the full width of a rib bone, measuring roughly two inches thick, aged for 28 days to improve both the flavor and texture, and graded higher than USDA Prime, so there's no worry of seeing something better at the local butcher shop.

Chocolate Chip Bourbon Bombs

Baked in small batches in Houston, Texas, the Chocolate Chip Bourbon Bombs are pairing your favorite after dinner treats in one bite. These boozy morsels take your typical cookie's semi-sweet chocolate chips and pecans and lace them with Texas Straight Bourbon Whiskey from Garrison Brothers Distillery. You can order them in a half dozen, but you know you're going to need the full.

Soylent

Sometimes Sci-Fi becomes real life. Available in powder or pre-mixed liquid forms, Soylent provides all the nutrition you need, including essentials like proteins, healthy fats, slow-metabolizing carbs for energy, vitamins, and minerals. And while most of us are likely to have a cup/bottle when we're too lazy to make real food, you could actually consume it, water, and nothing else and live a perfectly healthy lifestyle (or so the fine print says). It's also making its mark in Silicon Valley, becoming popular with programmers and other digital insurgents who use it in place of time-wasting meals to fuel marathon coding sessions. However you use it, you'll probably want to have something around to flavor it with, as while it's not necessarily "bad", it does leave at least one part of your body yearning for satisfaction: your taste buds.

DIY Jerky Kit

It's always been a healthy, lean snack that is easy to grab and go, but you've probably never made your own beef jerky. This DIY Jerky Kit changes that, giving you all the tools you need to make jerky at home, all you provide is your choice of meat. Included are two non-stick drying screens, two spice blends, a cork oven door stopper, and all the instructions to whip up a batch of homemade jerky for your next camping trip or hike.

Roe Caviar

Skip the chips and dip this year and indulge your holiday guests with some Roe Caviar. Sourced from sustainably farmed White Sturgeon in California, each tin contains the roe from a single fish, selected for size, firmness, color, and taste, with very fine salt to help enhance the flavor and without any added preservatives. Available only through the end of December, it's extremely limited, and comes in 125 gram or 250 gram tins, the latter of which arrives in a custom Monterey Pine wooden gift box.

Oats Overnight

We already know the fiber in oats can keep you going for longer than most sugary breakfast snacks. Oats Overnight does them one better with a formulated mix of proteins and nutrient-rich ingredients that helps you start your day right. Each pre-measured, single-serving pouch includes oatmeal (obviously), chia seeds, flax seeds, and whey protein. To prepare, just mix the pouch with 8 oz. of milk in a blender bottle, give it a few shakes, and stick it in the fridge overnight. When you wake up, give it a couple shakes again, and enjoy a breakfast with the protein equivalent of five eggs without needing to grab a frying pan. Available in three tasty flavors.

Gran Luchito Smoked Chilli Mayo

Just when you think you've had it all, Smoked Chilli Mayo from Gran Luchito hits your radar. Made using an underrated smoked chilli called the Pasilla Oaxaca, this fiery addition is blended with free range egg mayo and is perfect to use on burgers, sandwiches, or for a unique batch of deviled eggs. Dunk or dollop it on anything that needs extra smoke, spice, and authentic Mexican flavor.