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Extreme chocolate

Mel dCP said:
I’ve never really liked milk chocolate anyway, even as a kid my favourite was Cadbury’s Bourneville! But even that is too sickly sweet for me now.

I use almond milk for tea, and soya cream for cooking when I can’t get the goat stuff.
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I must say Dutch cheese is a treat !!
 
Can't stand Dairy Milk. It sort of tastes burnt
Like Galaxy.
Love Hotel Chocolate 90%.
Agree nuts in chocolate bars are 'wrong'. However I could possibly tolerate Nutella straight from the jar (if I knew how to bolus for it).
 
Nut-laced chocolate.
Experience the contrast in crunch between delicious chocolate and the perfect hazelnut.
Swoon over the rugged surface of nut chocolate so like live itself, up and down, raw, smooth only between upheaval, never predictable.
Savour the feel of that rugged surface on the fingers and the lips and that contrast in taste.
Even the chocolate is different from one nut variety choc to the other. Almond, walnut and that cheeky sultana or currant that surprises.
Live in heaven with your nut chocolate - staple of the gods and of the multiverse (with persuasion and bribery ever one's allies.
 
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Diakat said:
Can't stand Dairy Milk. It sort of tastes burnt
Like Galaxy.
Love Hotel Chocolate 90%.
Agree nuts in chocolate bars are 'wrong'. However I could possibly tolerate Nutella straight from the jar (if I knew how to bolus for it).
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A 'friend' gave me a 5 kg jar of Nutella for my 60th birthday - it took some time to get through it.
I think I needed 2 units per dessertspoonful. Best Wishes !!!
There is a sugar-reduced type of hazelnut chocolate, like Nutella.
It is fairly addictive, less guilt-making, the taste is not bad at all. Run away as soon as you see it on the shelves!!!
 
There is a recipe for keto Nutella here... https://ketodietapp.com/Blog/lchf/low-carb-chocolate-hazelnut-spread-aka-keto-nutella
 
kitedoc said:
Um,.... @Knikki, could you narrow that down a bit, please, for me? Everything to me means like the whole universe and every star and grain of sand. I sorta am lost in there with no comeback, as it were !!!
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Yep that just about sums up my feeling of "nuts in chocolate" just 'Everything' wrong.

Guess it come back from the old joke of What has a hazel nut in every bite?
Squirrel poop

It was a tag line "hazel nut in every bite" from a Topic adverts that were on the telly in the 70's.
 
If you have a google for 'raw cacao' a surprising number of things are thrown up. Nibs, whole beans, liquor, powder - even capsules!

a few years ago I did that and ended up with a bag of 'raw cacao liquer' from eBay, which despite the description was lumps a bit like chunks of hard fudge. Delicious!!! I used it in smoothies and for hot choc. Very good indeed. I think I need more...
 
Either Montezuma's "Absolute Black" for me (Sainsbury's stocki it) or 90% Lindt - and here's the thing - Lindt 90% tastes absolutely fabulous after "Absolute Black"!
 
I'm definitely a dark choc fan. The Milky Bar Kid deserves to be hung, drawn and quartered for his role in promoting white chocolate. Or at least dragged behind a horse for a while in the Nevada desert in his wee pretend cowboy outfit.

But, gotta be honest here, although I'm usually fairly resistant to marketing flim flam, the new Ruby pink Kit Kat caught my eye. Not pink through artificial colourings, but a new technique where the colour comes from the beans, apparently, and there was a top Japanese chef involved too. Oh, and it had, "limited edition" on it too, so it must be special.

I would like to report it had subtle notes of lychee, with a subliminal aftertaste of fresh figs, but, no, going to have to dip into Scottish slang here for a moment to do it justice: it was boufin. Sickly sweet, chucked into the bin after three bites.

Japanese chefs, my a**e.
 
Our youngest daughter is volunteering in Congo and we had the opportunity to send a small parcel with someone going out there I asked if there was any thing important that we could send She said "Coffee and chocolate " When I asked if there wasn't anything else "What is more important than Coffee and chocolate ?" Was the reply ! !
Carol
 
I have permission to have chocolate milkshakes but....... they are constantly 'out of stock'. Humf!!!
 
Mel dCP said:
I’m allergic to EVERYTHING! So the really dark stuff is MINE.
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Next time I get given any 99% Lindt or any 100% it's all yours! I love the 90% Lindt but not so keen on the higher percentages.

But, as a former milk and white chocoholic, to convert to the 90% is an achievement I'm rather proud of.
 
Mel dCP said:
I’m allergic to EVERYTHING! So the really dark stuff is MINE.
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Does this mean it was you bought up all the 100% cocoa chocolate buttons from Hotel Chocolat, so that they are now out of stock? I am getting panicky, as I have hardly any left to tide me over.
 
There's a whole foods shop just up the road from me (two doors down from a Greggs to provide some balance, with a bookies inbetween so you can place bets on whether veganism or steakbakes will kill you quickest).

It does a stack of cottage industry specialist choc, like Halo, and a hundred and one others which I can't remember the names of. But the problem is they're all so damned expensive - £3.50 a bar for some!

I've not got a sweet tooth, didn't even before I was dx'd, so it's not that much of an issue for me, but there's still a place for the mass produced stuff.

Ritter Sport Marzipan, that's got a surprising sophistication to it. Dark choc and the melt in mouth almondiness of marzipan - a few bits of that are good for a Sugar Surf nudge up instead of dextrotab chalk.

I saw a Ritter Sport Cornflakes a few weeks ago in a shop, but was in a rush so didn't buy it, will have to give that a go sometime - breakfast and dessert combined.


 
Marzipan one from threshers on old London Bridge train station used to be my favourite, til I was diagnosed.
 
Scott-C said:
Och, hen, you can still eat the almonds!
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Not at mo. On a 1meal of various veg plus 3 milk shakes to satisfy the 800cals diet. Choc flavoured shake (202cals) is my limit. If I can find it anywhere.
 
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