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Dark Chocolate Recommendations

Lindt 90% although - weirdly - I don't have it often, even though I know I can.
 
Not had chocolate since diagnosis, have always found dark chocolate too bitter. Perhaps time to try it again. We all deserve a treat now and again x
I would suggest the Hotel Chocolat Supermilk range - its over 70% cocoa but if you dont like bitter chocolate its as close to a "normal" milk chocolate as I think you'll find. I know we're all different but I don't spike on this.......in moderation. Good luck and enjoy!
 
What does "100% cocoa" mean, is it just a block of cocoa with no other ingredients?
Listed Ingredients, per 100g:
Fat 54g [Sats 33g]
C/H 8g [Sugars<0.5g]
Protein 12g
Fibre [??] 17g
Na+ 0.02g
God knows where the fibre comes in - it doesn't taste like old rope.
Anyway, I think it tastes as good as Lindt 90%, has insignificant sugar & in #Brexit Britain, is UK manufactured!
 
Lindt 90% seems optimum. I have tried 100% Montezuma, but it s just too bitter.
 
Agree on the Lindt 90%. Found some Lindt 99% the other day and didn't enjoy it. I'm kind of addicted to the 90%.
 
Yes. It used to be in Sainsbury's.
 
Not had chocolate since diagnosis, have always found dark chocolate too bitter. Perhaps time to try it again. We all deserve a treat now and again x
I only used to have milk chocolate and found dark too bitter; but, after avoiding things with obvious sugar content for so long, I quite enjoy it now.
 
Don't worry. It will soon be flogged off to somebody.
 
I've tried three of the 100% chocs from Hotel Chocolat. They were bought as an Easter pressie by Mr Chook which meant he went right out of his way to get them. To be honest, if I'd bought them myself I'd have binned them after the first bite - but they were a present so I ate every last little bit of them and it nearly put me off of chocolate.

I've not tried the Montezuma slab chocolate - but I have tried the Montezuma boxed chocolates (another pressie from Mr Chook) which were lovely but a bit sweet for me and very expensive.
 
I only used to have milk chocolate and found dark too bitter; but, after avoiding things with obvious sugar content for so long, I quite enjoy it now.

Same here.... pre low carbing my favourite used to be Caramac.
 
I just looked up Montezuma Chocolate's website and see that they do 2 other varieties of their 100% Dark chocolate. One has almonds and the other cocoa nibs with orange oil. Reviewers on the website give them all rave reviews.
I don't think Waitrose stocks anything other than the plain 100% dark. Montezuma will mail chocolate to you but adding £5 p&p to a £10.36 order for 4 bars seems a bit extravagant. I think I'll wait and see.
 
I've tried the Montezuma 100% choc block, which I got from Sainsbury's, the only place locally that I found it in stock. Biggest problem I had with it was trying to break the ruddy stuff; in the end I had to resort to my smallest tack hammer & a wooden chopping board on the garage floor!!

I always preferred dark chocolate, even as a child, and wouldn't give a thank you for milk chocolate, so turning to higher cocoa wasn't an issue for me. In fact, it's been many years since I ate chocolate at all, it just wasn't on my radar. I read about the Montezuma somewhere on this site, (probably earlier in this thread), and decided to try it. It has taken a few months to eat my way through the whole bar; I just finished the last of it last night. It was ok, very smooth, but I found it a tad 'raw' to the back of my throat. I'm not sure that 'raw' is the right word that explains the taste/aftertaste correctly, but it's the best I can think of at the minute. I don't think I shall be buying it again.
 
Just FYI about the postage - you can get 2 bars for £6 or 6 bars for £15.45 on Amazon with free delivery (presume that cost is somehow worked into the slightly higher price).
 



Your post just brought back a memory, my father use to like the Scottish Tablet Toffee where you'd get a little hammer in the packaging, the stuff was impossible to break and when it did it would break into a thousand bits
 


Your post just brought back a memory, my father use to like the Scottish Tablet Toffee where you'd get a little hammer in the packaging, the stuff was impossible to break and when it did it would break into a thousand bits

Oh Yeh, I remember that; don't know if it was the same toffee, but we had the same result - it was always a ****** trying to eat the tiny bits afterwards; never tasted the same somehow.
I used to have one of those proper toffee hammers once, must of lost it during a house move sometime; still miss it occasionally.
 
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