Feel Good Friday - Last Minute Gift Guide

Happy Feel Good Friday! Hanukkah is here, Christmas is coming... if you're like me, you've waited until the last minute to do your shopping. Don't worry, there's an upside!

For today's Feel Good Friday, we're going to take a look back at companies we've profiled in 2014 that have a feel good product to sell. Given how last minute this list is, you may need to make these presents for the new year or save them for someone's birthday in 2015. But hey, now you've got your birthday shopping taken care of too. You're welcome.

Click on the links below to go to the original FGF posts and get all the details!

Guardian Princesses - books about "super heroines who work together to protect the people and the planet."

GoodWeave -  rugs made without child labor by a group that also provides "education and opportunities to rescued and at-risk children."

Thistle Farms - beauty products made and sold by women in Tennessee "who have survived lives of prostitution, trafficking, addiction and life on the streets."

luminAID - a solar-powered, waterproof, inflatable light. When you buy one for yourself, take a moment (and get a discount) to buy one for a person liven in a country without reliable access to electricity.

ChopChop Magazine - a magazine full of recipes to teach kids how to cook real food with their families.

GoldieBlox - engineering toys designed for girls to get them interested in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

Wonderbag - "a non-electric, heat-retention cooker that allows food that has been brought to a boil, to continue cooking after it has been removed from the fuel source." For every Wonderbag you buy, one is sent to a family in Africa!

If you'd rather make a donation to another organization in someone's name or buy a goat for a family in Guatemala, you can scroll through the Feel Good Friday archives to get ideas or just to feel good.

Happy Holidays!

Feel Good Friday - ChopChop Magazine

It's Feel Good Friday! Who's hungry besides me?

Before you go out and order a burger with pink slime or a sandwich with bread made from yoga mats,  let me introduce you to ChopChop Magazine.

The quarterly magazine (published in both English and Spanish) promotes the mission of ChopChop Kids, "an innovative non-profit organization whose mission is to inspire and teach kids to cook real food with their families." As they continue to explain on their website, "we believe that cooking and eating together as a family is a vital step in resolving the obesity and hunger epidemics."

The magazine "is filled with nutritious, great-tasting, ethnically diverse, and inexpensive recipes. It also has fun food facts, games and puzzles, and interviews with healthy heroes ranging from kid chefs to professional athletes to the White House Chefs."

Great if you have kids or the attention span of a kid when trying to follow a recipe! I'm no French chef but am convinced even I can make these dishes.

While ChopChop is distributed at public schools, children's hospitals and health centers, you can also subscribe or read their content online.

To learn more about Sally Sampson and the creation of ChopChop three years ago, you can click this link to an article about people making a difference.

To stay aware of the latest awards, recipes and news, like their Facebook page. Yum!