Chocolate Is Healthy

Scrub soak and drink in the healthful goodness of Organic and Fair Trade chocolate Enjoy the health benefits of dark chocolate inside and out. Features

• 1 Dagoba Hot Chocolate Organic & Fair Trade Drinking Chocolate
• 1 Koko Beauty Hot Chocolate Milk Bath made with Organic & Fair Trade cocoa butter
• 3 jenzenorganics Chocolate Bath Truffles made with Organic & Fair Trade cocoa butter
• 1 Giovanni Hot Chocolate Sugar Scrub

Koko Beauty and Giovanni bodycare made in California and Dagoba chocolate made in Oregon. All this delicious organic and fair trade goodness is thoughtfully packed up in Earth Friendly 100% post-consumer paperboard gift box tied with Earth Friendly 100% cotton/soy ink Natural Ribbon.

We love giving chocolate gifts and party favors as they are loved and cherished at weddings, birthdays, anniversaries or any special occasion.   Even better, you can have personalized chocolate in any size of bar, and custom wrappers with any design you wish.  But from a chocolate lover’s perspective, how do they stack up?

It’s difficult to find personalized chocolate gifts that are comprised of high quality, dark chocolate.  Of course, we prefer it to be minimally-processed, fair trade and organic, but we know we can’t have everything.  But personalized chocolates always seem to be made from generic, too-sweet milk chocolate.  We love the design, concept and spirit of personalized chocolates, but we hope you’ll let us know of any gourmet options out there.

Below is a helpful list of the pros and cons of giving personalized chocolate as gifts or favors.

Chocolate Bars With Personalized Wrappers – The Pros and Cons For Choosing Candy Party Favors at Articles for Mom.

We found this killer list of delicious chocolate gifts including bars, truffles and even chocolate spa treatments.   While we can’t say that every item on this list is healthy, there are some wonderful options either on their own or to create a chocolate gift basket.

Here are a couple of our healthier chocolate favorites:

Alter Eco Dark Cacao Chocolate

“Alter-Eco is a San Francisco based gourmet food company that offers a full line of Fair Trade gourmet chocolate. The ingredients used in the chocolates are sourced from marginalized farming cooperatives in the global south – providing fair wages, direct trade and funding for community development, scholarships, women’s empowerment programs and more. The company offers a unique variety of chocolate bars crafted with passion by a master chocolatier in Switzerland from all natural ingredients and Fair Trade Certified ingredients. Alter-Eco’s Dark Cacao Chocolate blends a fine dark chocolate (73% cocoa) with crunchy nibs of roasted Organic cacao beans—the perfect balance of bitter and sweet! The chocolate is both Fair Trade Certified and USDA certified organic. To make this chocolate, Alter-Eco uses the finest ingredients harvested by the members of the El Ceibo cooperative located in the heart of the Bolivian Amazon who use sustainable farming methods that preserve the local agricultural biodiversity. www.altereco-usa.com

Navitas Naturals Make-Your-Own Organic Chocolate Superfood Kits

Navitas Naturals is making it easy for people to bring home the art of chocolate making with their innovative new Organic Superfood Chocolate Kits. Available in three delicious organic superfood varieties – Goji Berry, Cacao Nib and Goldenberry. Each fun and unique Kit creates 12 organic chocolates. Navitas Naturals Organic Superfood Chocolate Kits are full of healthy antioxidants, and these treats can be prepared in just minutes. In addition to the Kit ingredients, the only other items needed to complete the easy recipe are a knife, a small bowl, a large bowl and an ice cube tray. Each Organic Superfood Chocolate Kit contains raw: organic cacao butter, organic cacao powder, organic mesquite, organic lucuma, organic maca and the specific organic superfood which is featured in the chewy center of the chocolates (Goji Berry, Cacao nib, or Goldenberry).”

Chocolate Gifts – Chocolate Gift Guide for 2009.

Here’s yet another wonderful recipe using raw dark chocolate, this time in a powder form.  It’s combined with fresh blueberries for an amazing dessert that’s an antioxidant joyride!  It’s sweetened by the natural fruit flavors of blueberries and dates, as well as agave nectar.

Raw Blueberry Chocolate Pie – Filling from Shazzie and David Wolfe’s Naked Chocolate Book, Crust from Nomi Shannon’s The Raw Gourmet

Pie Crust:

1 1/4 Cup Organic Raw Almonds (Soaked)
6 Organic Dates
1 Tbsp Water
1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla
Dash of Cinnamon

Pie Filling:

2 Cups Organic Raw Cashews
2 Cups Fresh Organic Blueberries
2 Tablespoons Raw Agave Nectar
2 Tablespoons of Raw Cacao Powder

Instructions: Put all pie crust ingredients into a food processor or Vitamix and blend. Press into a pie dish and dehydrate for 4-6 hours. Put all pie filling ingredients into your Vitamix and blend. (Pretty simple right?) Put pie filling into pie crust once it’s dehydrated and put in the freezer for 1 hour. You can keep it in the freezer for a while, just make sure that if you don’t serve it within the hour, that you take it out and let it warm up for 30-45 minutes before serving!

Enjoy!

How Raw Blueberry Chocolate Pie Is Like a Gateway Drug… In a Good Way – The Renegade Health Show Episode #32 | The Renegade Health Show – Fun and Educational TV on Raw Food, Vegan Diet, Healthy Living.

The perfect treat you’ll want to enjoy daily. These .35oz. pieces are made with organic-certified, shade-grown, ethically traded dark chocolate with 70% cocoa content. Dark Chocolate Bug Bites are certified Kosher by Orthodox Union and organic by the USDA and Oregon Tilth. Each box contains approx. 64 individual dark chocolate pieces.

On the outside of the box you can learn about the National Wildlife Federation and their Backyard Wildlife Habitat program as well as Endangered Species Chocolate’s story and mission. Along with bite-sized squares of organic dark chocolate, each piece contains 1 of a set of 32 insect trading cards from Dexter Sear.

Endangered Species Bug Bites Organic Dark Chocolate 64 Units / 0.35 oz