Bring more meaning to your chocolate

Anyone can buy a box of chocolate for their valentine, but that's overkill (for me, that would be overindulge). If not giving chocolate says 'Valentine dearest, you need to lose weight', here's a suggestion.

Give less chocolate but give chocolate with more meaning. And yes, this is going to take a lot of explaining to your true love so don't make chocolate your only Valentines gift. You have three choices.

1. I honestly don't believe the entire premise for Intentional Chocolate™ but their hearts are in the right place and it can open up communication channels for some great discussions with your loved one. The Chocolate maker donates 50 percent of net profits to organizations committed to the benefit of humankind. For the couple of weeks leading up to Valentines' Day, they gave 100 percent of profits to Haitian relief. These are nice people.
   
   According to their website, the driving belief behind the firm is that home cooked meals made with love and care (good intentions) are satisfying and healing. The firm infuses their chocolate with good intentions. Intentional Chocolate is 'intention-enhanced food' that delivers nourishment for both body and spirit.
   
   "The good intentions are infused into the chocolate from advanced mediators -- some who have trained with the Dalai Lama -- and is delivered with love to those who eat it."
   
   Intentional Chocolate says they are 'reintroducing the ancient concept of intentional eating to refocus our attention on the important relationship we have to food' which if the food industry would embrace this precept it would bring greater health and quality of life to all beings.
   
2. Taza Chocolate makes chocolate in a socially conscious and old fashioned - as in Mayan, who kicked off the whole chocolate craze - way. With minimal processing and a traditional method of stone grinding the beans, Taza Chocolate is surprisingly pleasing with a gritty texture. The ingredients are sourced directly from small farmers that are compensated fairly for their work. Each bar is dairy-,gluten- and soy-fee for any vegan on your Valentines' list.
   
3. If your valentine is an environmentalist, try Endangered Species Chocolate which is 100% ethically traded. The firm buys cacao from small family-owned properties, helping sustain the habitats and communities in which they exist. The chocolate and its wrappers increase awareness of species currently listed as threatened or endangered on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s Endangered Species List. 10 percent of this company's profits go to organizations that support cacao farming communities.