Dark chocolate. What's not to love? Okay, I know not everyone likes chocolate, and some only prefer milk chocolate. I've been fond of ALL chocolate through the years, but since I had to quit eating dairy products a couple years ago, that put me squarely on the dark side. Which turns out not a bad place to be, after all.
I still have to read the ingredient list carefully. Cocoa butter is fine (it's not moo-cow butter). Milk and milk fat, not okay. You'd be surprised how many dark chocolates contain milk fat (I initially typed fart instead of fat right there...oh, the irony). So I can't just raid the Halloween candy.
This is my current favorite brand. It's not available in my hometown, but I happily drive 70 miles round trip for this stuff.
It's that good.
Sixty percent cocoa content is a bit on the sweet side for a dark chocolate, but it doesn't hurt my feelings. Seventy or seventy-five percent would be better, but 80 percent and up just tastes like charcoal to me. There's a fine line.
I'll have a square or two a day, so a bar lasts several days. Dark chocolate remains one of my only holdouts, as far as eschewing refined sugar, but I've heard it's good for you. I know it's good for me!
How about you? Do you have a favorite kind of chocolate?
I'd say Green & Black chocolate - mmmm! Chocolate has got iron in it - only a little bit so you do have to eat quite a lot to increase your iron levels - but I'm ok with that!
I adore dark chocolate so I can totally relate to your FTF. I also like rum and raisin, pineapple, white chocolate and peppermint. Dont even get me started on chocolate bars - I could wax lyrical and go on forever and I don't think I have any chocolate in the house at the moment (cooking chocolate doesn't really count does it?)
Yes, there is a fine line between really good and the charcoal tasting varieties:) A girl can't give up everything she enjoys, so I'm glad to hear you're holding onto the chocolate! I could probably live on chocolate and coffee:)
I love chocolate too and we get a nice organic dark chocolate with orange, delicious but I haven't had any for 2 months now as I am on a sugar detox. Getting together with an old girlfriend this weekend so I suspect that will all change! That is a long way to drive for chocolate but you know I would go that far as well :-)
I did not like chocolate as a kid. Too bad I grew out of that.
I will eat dark chocolate if that's all there is. But I really prefer milk chocolate. My current favorite way to ingest it is a nice big scoop (or two) of chocolate ice cream topped with chocolate syrup and crushed Oreo's. Or crushed M&M's. Whichever.
Yes, I KNOW it's good for me too!!!
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Helen
I love dark chocolate too or the semi-sweet kind. I think I heard somewhere that it's a vegetable .. or at least one of the necessary food groups.
ReplyDeleteI don't really like milk chocolate at all. It's funny how chocolate from different parts of the world tastes different...
I'd say Green & Black chocolate - mmmm! Chocolate has got iron in it - only a little bit so you do have to eat quite a lot to increase your iron levels - but I'm ok with that!
ReplyDeleteI adore dark chocolate so I can totally relate to your FTF. I also like rum and raisin, pineapple, white chocolate and peppermint. Dont even get me started on chocolate bars - I could wax lyrical and go on forever and I don't think I have any chocolate in the house at the moment (cooking chocolate doesn't really count does it?)
ReplyDeleteDark chocolate yum! Where do you drive to get it btw?
ReplyDeleteI love German chocolate!
Yes, there is a fine line between really good and the charcoal tasting varieties:) A girl can't give up everything she enjoys, so I'm glad to hear you're holding onto the chocolate! I could probably live on chocolate and coffee:)
ReplyDeleteI love chocolate too and we get a nice organic dark chocolate with orange, delicious but I haven't had any for 2 months now as I am on a sugar detox. Getting together with an old girlfriend this weekend so I suspect that will all change! That is a long way to drive for chocolate but you know I would go that far as well :-)
ReplyDeleteI did not like chocolate as a kid. Too bad I grew out of that.
ReplyDeleteI will eat dark chocolate if that's all there is. But I really prefer milk chocolate. My current favorite way to ingest it is a nice big scoop (or two) of chocolate ice cream topped with chocolate syrup and crushed Oreo's. Or crushed M&M's. Whichever.
Chocolate = nirvana.
xo -E
My chocolate bar of choice is Lindt's dark chocolate & orange.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm all about the dark chocolate too. :-) I've been buying Dove.
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