Giveaway: $50 iHerb Shopping Spree (2 Winners!)

I'm so excited to be hosting an awesome giveaway this week: two lucky winners will each receive a $50 shopping spree at iHerb.com!  If you're not familiar with iHerb, I highly recommend that you check it out.  In addition to offering herbs, supplements, and lotions, they have an amazing selection of natural food products.  It's a great place to order hard-to-find things like coconut sugar, almond flour, and sunbutter.  You can enter code TKM858 to get $10 off your first order of $40 or more.  See the Rafflecopter widget at the bottom of the post to enter the giveaway!

I recently ordered a bunch of iHerb's products, and loved every single one.  The picture above shows what I got, and here are links to the individual items: dark chocolate almonds (so good!), almond flour, coconut butter, coconut flour, coconut aminos, blueberry jam, coconut sugar, Celtic sea salt (I used this to make vanilla salt), maple syrup (I put a splash in my morning coffee), unrefined coconut oil, chocolate chips, sunflower seed butter, four-pepper grinder, pink Himalayan salt grinder, mini Chocolove bars (these would make perfect stocking stuffers), and lip balm in mint chocolate, mint burst, vanilla beeswax, cocoa butter, and honey (the honey lip balm is FREE right now and most of the others are just 85 cents).  I have used all of these things already and love them!

iHerb also has a great blog called the Healthy Haven with recipes and tips for healthy living.  Right now they're featuring my mocha mexicano recipe!

A Calculated Gift Guide: Make a Difference with 10 Presents Under $50

I had so much fun putting together this list of ten great gift ideas that support amazing causes around the world.  Spoiler alert: if you're on my Christmas list, you're probably getting one of these (hi, Mom)!

Ever since my first graders voted last year to name our class the cheetahs, I've been keeping up with conservation efforts to save the marvelous cats.  You can help cheetahs by sponsoring a livestock guarding dog in the name of someone on your list.  The Cheetah Conservation Fund's unique project raises and trains Anatolian shepherds to protect local farmers' herds, thus reducing the number of cheetahs that are killed by farmers to save their livestock.  Donations start at $10, and you can download a personalized sponsorship certificate and a picture of one of the dogs.