Melanie Giandzi
Senior Food & Drink Writer
Mel is the Senior Food & Drink Writer for Good Housekeeping UK, covering all the delicious new product launches that come her way, writing about food and drink topics, and curating gift guides for the best foodie products to buy. Alongside that, she can be found developing and creating cocktails for GH and holds her WSET Level 2 in Wine and Spirits. She was part of the Good Housekeeping Institute food testing team for over four years before moving over to the digital side, so knows a thing or two about great food products. You'll find her scouring the supermarket shelves in her spare time for new and exciting ingredients to experiment with in her kitchen.
The best LEGO advent calendars for Christmas 2025
From Star Wars and Harry Potter to Marvel and Friends, these are the best themed LEGO Advent calendars for 2024.
Lighters at the ready - these are the best candle advent calendars for Christmas 2025
Bored of chocolate and beauty products? Try out a new scent and add ambience to your home each day!
16 of the best alcohol advent calendars for a fun-filled Christmas countdown
Whether you love wine, gin, whisky or cocktails, there's a calendar for you..
Costa's new butter pecan toffee latte is the standout drink from their Christmas menu
Plus, there's a Dubai-inspired sweet treat on the menu that we can't wait to try and the festive cups are back!
18 really cool and stylish Christmas gifts ideas for men
From personalised treats to limited-edition goodies, we've hand-picked gifts he'll definitely love.
Nespresso launches really fun Christmas coffee flavours and their coveted advent calendar is back!
It's our favourite time of year for fun food launches! 🎁☕
16 of the best food advent calendars to make Christmas even more special
Sweets, cheese, chocolate and coffee - we've found our favourite advent calendars to count down December!
11 of the very best Christmas advent calendars for men 2025
From craft beer, socks, biscuits and tea - we've hand selected the best ones for the lead up to the big day.
Our favourite autumnal dessert now comes in a coffee flavour and we're running straight to try it
This is the most innovative and exciting coffee flavour we've seen all year! ☕
30 Christmas gift ideas that every woman wants in 2025
Thoughtful, unique and genuinely exciting gifts no matter your budget.
From a 'hard honey' liqueur to the best salt and vinegar crisps - here everything our food writer loved this month
It's a hard job, but someone has to do it!
The spookiest decorations for your home this Halloween
No pumpkin carving skills required! 🎃
10 of the coolest and spookiest Halloween trees to decorate your home with
Move over pumpkins, there's a new Halloween display in town..🎃🌲
Our favourite cake flavour now comes in a gin and we think it's perfect for this drizzly weather
Slippers on, candles lit and a glass of this on ice please!
It's decided, this M&S Christmas Colin with popping candy and confetti is the cake we're serving at Christmas
He's had a special makeover for our favourite festive occasion 🎄❄️
Earl of East launches candles inspired by Italian food and they all smell absolutely delicious
Candles that evoke a perfect Italian dinner? Good luck trying not to eat them..
Gordon's new drinks range is made for mixing with prosecco and is perfect for the upcoming festive season
We think this will be our go-to drink for all the celebrations..
Our Place launches dreamy cookware collection with two icons - and it's their best colour yet!
We've never wanted a product more.. 🧈🍳
Shopping for a picky teen? Here are 22 of the best Christmas gift ideas they'll love
Shopping for teens can be notoriously tricky but these gift ideas will certainly earn you the cool title! 🎁
Lindt launches two new Dubai chocolate bar flavours because one wasn't enough
We aren't mad about this news though..😍🍫
'Perfect little morsels' - Little Moons new ice cream flavours were a huge hit in the office
We can't get enough of these mochi-covered ice cream treats. 🍡
Baileys new Christmas flavour is the best launch we've seen all year
We actually can't wait to get cosied up with a glass of this...🛋️
From a DIY chocolate haunted house to pickled onion 'worm' crisps: M&S's Halloween food range is making us want to go trick or treating..
So many deliciously grotesque food items to choose from...🦇🎃
M&S drops adorable new Colin and Connie Christmas decos plus loads of food favourites are returning
We cannot wait to feast on all of these goodies!
Costa just dropped their autumn menu and they're bringing back this popular hot drink
Warm drinks and chunky knits are back everyone! 🍂☕
McVitie's Penguin is back with a brand-new flavour - and just in time for the school lunchboxes
This new flavour is the perfect addition to school lunch boxes and office treats.
Aldi has launched a gender reveal Cuthbert the Caterpillar cake and it's brilliant
The clever idea is to celebrate September being the month with the most births! 🎂🐛
M&S has launched a very affordable bubble tableware range and it's the best designer-dupe we've spotted
Stock up quickly though as they're selling fast! 🫧
Dubai chocolate recipe - your very own at home version
The GH cookery team put their spin on the viral Dubai chocolate bar... 🍫
Starbuck's Pumpkin Spice Latte is back and there's an exciting new flavour added to the line-up
And there's a pretty range of new cups to suit the autumnal weather 🍂☕🎃
Terry's Chocolate Orange has launched a new flavour...and it has nothing to do with orange
You know it's truly autumn when a Terry's comes out..🍊🍫
There's a new M&S Colin the Caterpillar in town and it's the coolest one yet!
We actually don't know how we lived without this before...