The Wild, Whimsical Wonderbag (and Lucky Fish) Gifts That Give Twice

December 16, 2018

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Innovative Founder Sarah Collins’ portable Wonderbag is a simple but revolutionary heat retention slow-cooker, which continues to cook food for up to 12 hours after being brought to the boil by fire, cook stoves or any conventional method, without the use of any additional fuel source. For very bag sold in the Western World, a donation is made to the Wonderbag Foundation and a bag is subsidized in the developing world. For another of our favorite gives that give, the Lucky Iron Fish, please see below).

The ingenious non-electric slow cooker uses heat-retention to make the most soups, stews, roast chicken, sweet potatoes, chili, poached salmon, fall-off-the-bone lamb curry. Recipes are available on line. Savvy chefs can pop a dish from the stove into their Wonderbag, place it in the trunk, and open a perfectly slow-cooked hot meal at a family of office potluck, or campsite on the slopes.

Wonderbag has proven to be an unrivaled economic stimulant. In rural African communities the intervention of a Wonderbag can help a family go from 20 cents a day income to $2 a day. By subsidizing the Wonderbag and selling it at a price that is affordable in the local economy, women are given the opportunity to exercise dignity of choice in a financial transaction.

Ecologically significant, a single Wonderbag can reduce carbon emissions by one ton when used for one year. Over 4 billion people eat from an open fire everyday causing 4 million people to die each year from indoor air pollution-related diseases and 50% of deaths from air-related causes contribute to deaths by pneumonia of children under five. The Wonderbag has been utilized in refugee and humanitarian interventions in the Middle East since 2012 and it was accredited by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Rwanda.

The Wonderbag design using sturdy polyvinyl fabric and recycled foam allows food to be slow cooked or kept warm off of a heat source. It works in four, easy steps: Boil it, bag it, stand it and share it. To slow cook, food in a pot is brought to the boil on a stove, simmered, placed in a Wonderbag, where the drawstring is cinched tightly with the drawstring, and slow cooked to taste for up to 12 hours. A kitchen towel around your pot helps to to keep it clean and reduces spills but the clothe Wonderbag does not even require a countertop trivet. The Wonderbag can be spot washed or gently washed in a contemporary machine and with cold water and minimal detergent, then dried by hanging or in a low-temperature dryer.

For more details and to order, please see: //www.wonderbagworld.com/how-it-works/ and The Wonderbag Cookbook online: //www.wonderbagworld.com/recipes/

Another of our favorite gives that give twice are the Lucky Iron Fish. It looks like an oversized charm for a bracelet but Lucky Iron Fish is a simple but dynamic concept with a positive societal impact on an international level. The unique little, iron fish that helps fight iron deficiency, an issue affecting more than 3.5 billion people in the developed and developing world. Available online in major retailers from the Canadian company, a fish is donated for every one purchased. (//localfoodeater.com/lucky-fish-top-pick-adding-iron-diets-internationally/)