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GIFT PICK: Kween Granola Butter

Here’s something new in the category of non-nut butters, a category that includes coconut butter, cookie butter, soy nut butter and sunflower seed butter.

Introducing Kween Granola Butter, a slightly-sweet spreadable made with granola’s rolled oats, maple syrup and cinnamon. It’s non-GMO and contains no refined sugars.

And you can give it as stocking stuffers or small gifts.

There are currently three flavors of Kween Granola Butter:

  • Original
  • Original with Collagen Peptides (more protein: see below)
  • Pumpkin Spice (seasonal)
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    The wholesome ingredients are wholesome:

  • Gluten-Free Organic Rolled Oats
  • Golden Flax
  • Olive Oil
  • Coconut Oil
  • Maple Syrup
  • Cinnamon
  • Optional Collagen Peptides (see below)
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    Per serving, these power-packed ingredients contain 4g of protein in Original, 7g of protein in Original With Collagen Peptides, 5% DV of fiber from golden flax, healthy fats and under 3g of sugar.
     
     
    HOW TO USE GRANOLA BUTTER

    Use it like any nut butter or non-nut butter.

  • Spread it.
  • Eat it from the jar.
  • Add it to smoothies.
  • Bake with it.
  • Mix it into dips and vinaigrettes.
  • You can even make Granola Butter Milk.
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    WHAT ARE COLLAGEN POLYPEPTIDES?

    Collagen peptides are a cold-soluble, easily digestible and highly bioactive form of collagen.

    Although they are not exactly the same as gelatin, both originate from collagen and are proteins made of amino acids. Here’s more about them.
     
     
    GET YOUR GRANOLA BUTTER

    One 10-ounce jar is $12.95, with discounts for multiple jars.

    Head to Kween.co.

     

    Kween Granola Butter
    [1] Kween Granola Butter, in Original and Original With Collagen Polypeptides for more protein. All photos courtesy Kween.

    Granola Butter Banana Bread
    [2] Bake banana bread, bars, cookies, and make Rice Krispie Treats and Granola Butter Cups (like PB Cups).

    Granola Butter Buddha Bowl
    [3] Whisk some into vinaigrettes, dips and sauces.

     
     

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    GIFT PICK: Chocolate Dinosaur & Other Novelties

    Chocolate Dinosaur
    Santa-saur, a Santa-hatted dinosaur in dark or milk chocolate (photo courtesy Woodhouse Chocolate).
     

    We have long been fans of Woodhouse Chocolate, a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week.

    You can count on Woodhouse for charming decorated reindeer, Santas, snowmen, trees, bears penguins and holiday bark, along with holiday boxes of delectable bonbons.

    New this year is a chocolate dinosaur, in milk or dark chocolate, painted on top with edible green confectioners paint.

    Wearing a jaunty Santa hat, he (or she) doesn’t look ferocious—just delicious.

    SEE THE WHOLE CHRISTMAS COLLECTION
    AT WOODHOUSECHOCOLATE.COM.

     
      

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    TIP OF THE DAY: GIve-Back Gifts

    For the person who has everything, how about a give-back gift with a social impact?

    These are gifts that support organizations like Feeding America, which provides meals to hungry people in our own country; and Heifer International, which provides livestock to third-world families so that they have food as well as eggs, milk, wool, etc. to sell and generate income.

    Heifer International has a catalog (and website) that showcases the different animals that you can donate, and how they help the families who receive them. For example:

    These gifts of animals change the lives of families forever. The animals go to impoverished families in countries like Bolivia, China, Ghana, Nepal, Rwanda and Zanzibar. Their lives can be changed by an animal that provides milk, meat and and/or wool to to sell the milk and wool, as well as feed and clothe the family.

    Just one animal can fund the education for a child to go to school, or a woman to start her own small business.

    Our friends and family—who have everything they need—enjoy choosing a different animal every year. You can donate a whole animal for $120 to $500, or a share of one for as little as $10 or $20.

    Options include:

  • Alpaca
  • Flock Of Chicks
  • Flock Of Ducks
  • Flock Of Geese
  • Goat
  • Heifer
  • Honeybees
  • Llama
  • Pig
  • Rabbits
  • Schools Of Fish Fingerlings (to start a fish farm)
  • Water Buffalo
  • And other options, including a mating pair of cattle
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    SEE ALL THE OPTIONS HERE.
     
     
    WORLD VISION

    World Vision is a company that also provides animal donations, and also a wider selection of items for needy children worldwide:

  • Clothing
  • Medicine
  • Mosquito Nets
  • Soccer Balls
  • Well Drilled In The Village
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    There are also giving packages for the needy in the U.S.

    Gifts start at just $16, with a good assortment for $25 or less.

    SEE ALL THE OPTIONS HERE

      Heifer International
    [1] A sheep gives a family milk, cheese and wool.


    [2] An alpaca provides wool to wear and to sell.

    Heifer International
    [3] A goat provides milk and cheese.

    Heifer International
    [4] Piglets multiply quickly to provide meat and leather for home consumption and sale.

     

     

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