Another heads up! Currently Aldi are selling dark chocolate bar branded as ‘Choc o low’ by Diary Fine with 80% less sugar!You’re right, they do vary considerably, but those seem very high. What percentage cocoa were they?
Montezuma’s 100% run at about 9%/g; same for Hotel Chocolat 100%
Lindt 90% = 14g
Aldi Moser Roth 85g = 18g
Sainsbury’s 85g = 16g
There are others, but those are the most easily available
Just come back from Lidl and nobody could find the chocolate. @Resurgam could you post a picture of it if you still have a bar?
@Oleblueseyes have you tried Aldi Moser Roth 85% chocolate? It comes in a 125g packet of little 25g bars, each bar is 4.6g carbs.
Cheese advent calendars? Sounds good.Thank you. I saw some Arriba chocolate there but not 95% I’ll have to go back next week. They didn’t have the cheese advent calendar I wanted either, sadly.
Other than all those above - and yes I found the Lidl one this week- is Cavalier Belgian chocolatier 85% with Stevia. It is difficult to find but delicious . Carbs 18.7g per 100g but that includes polyols 8.7g.
Now why has no one mentioned Aldi's 85% which is always on sale. Can't give you the carbs (but they won't be high otherwise I wouldn't have bought it) because I don't have any in at the moment as bought Montezuma's 100% with orange and cocoa nibs from Amazon in a 3 pack. OK it was expensive but I have never seen it in a shop and it makes a pleasant change!!
Cheese advent calendars? Sounds good.
I'm going to drag my beloved there's tomorrow especially as I have a £10 off coupon when spending £40 from the Mail this morning!Yes what a good idea, they said they’d only had a few in though and they seem to have disappeared very quickly so I hope they get more.
I recently discovered there's a technique to eating very high cocoa chocolate - if you gently suck the square rather than chew it it releases the most amazing tastes rather than just glooping in your mouth. Try itAnything about 85% is horrible! Just gloops in your mouth.
I get my chocolate fix with Hershey’s 100% cocoa with a big dollop of skinny sauce chocolate fudge - 3grams of carbs and no sugar per cup and once you master it it’s a very good hot chocolate
Oh grief - polyols - I overindulged and thought that I was going to become Geography - so bloated it was really painful.
My favourite is Hotel Chocolat's 100% chocolate drops, carbs 10.4g per 100g. They work out cheaper than the Montezuma's bars and obviously I don't have to face the challenge of breaking them up. I doubt if I would enjoy less than 100% now. I signed up for a membership card and every so often they send me a money off coupon, which makes them even better value. https://www.hotelchocolat.com/uk/100-dark-chocolate-drops.htmlI used to make my own 100% chocolate using cacoa butter and cocoa powder. Barely had any measurable effect on blood glucose. Likewise Montezuma's Absolute Black.
Try ASDA they had some in my local one tonight.Cheese advent calendars? Sounds good.
Thank you Daphne917. My carer went to our nearest Asda this afternoon and said that most of the shelves were empty, she had to finish up her shopping in Tesco's on the way home. I don't think I've been in an Asda for four or five years, my beloved does most of the top up shopping we need in his lunch break and a nice man from Waitrose brings the big shop. But I do like the sound of a cheese advent calendar, we've got a dog one ready for dog, two cat ones for my carer's cats but I'm pretty sure we haven't got one for us yet. We really thought we'd be in our new home by now, it's very frustrating especially as we are only waiting for the decorators to go back in and finish then the carpet people.Try ASDA they had some in my local one tonight.
Thank you DJC. I should write a book about my Mother's experiences abroad, I might even start it once we've moved. My parents were the first ones of their friends and family to go abroad and live overseas. My grandparents had never even left the county that they were born in. My Brother and I had so much fun with them. Mum keep all our letters to them and copies she wrote to us when we were away at school, up country and back in England. Plus her letters to her sisters which told how really scared she was of everything in Kenya. But she was rather brave in other things, she didn't drive so she would catch the local bus into town, frequently having to step over the holes in the floor of the bus in the aisles and by the seats, and she would either share her seat with someone's goats or chicken or the owners and by the time they got into town she would be firm friends with everyone. Happy days.I got a cheese one in Asda today @Daphne917
And @Norfolkmel btwI loved your Black Magic story.
@Alexandra100 I agree the Hotel Chocolate 100% drops are my favourite too. @shelley262 recently posted elsewhere about their Christmas release of chocolate cream drink which is zero carbs!