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Yikes! I seem to have become a chocoholic...how did that happen?!
Candi - now 42! Started conversation Dec 8, 2003
Where does this fit into my healthy lifestyle? Apparently you're okay if you eat 100g a week - the antioxidants are beneficial and the high saturated fat and and sugar content won't do too much harm - but AARGH! I've started consuming ever increasing quantities - whenever I go past a shop that sells vegan chocolate I have to buy some...and now, horror of horrors.... I have a spot on my nose!
HELP!
Yikes! I seem to have become a chocoholic...how did that happen?!
Evangeline Posted Dec 8, 2003
*hides 
in desk drawer*
Stop walking past that shop...
Yikes! I seem to have become a chocoholic...how did that happen?!
Candi - now 42! Posted Dec 17, 2003
Crisis over - gone off chocolate now, at least for the moment!
Phew!
Yikes! I seem to have become a chocoholic...how did that happen?!
Evangeline Posted Dec 17, 2003
If I were to go off chocolate, I would consider it a crisis. I'm pretty sure several of my friends would feel the same way. 
Yikes! I seem to have become a chocoholic...how did that happen?!
Candi - now 42! Posted Dec 18, 2003
no, I didn't express myself clearly - I don't mean "gone off chocolate" - I actually mean that I can cope for a day or two without it, that I can manage not to buy it just because I'm near a shop that sells it, that it's no longer my staple food!
I still love it...but am now able to eat it in more sensible quantities!
Yikes! I seem to have become a chocoholic...how did that happen?!
Evangeline Posted Dec 19, 2003
You expressed yourself clearly. I was probably a bit vague.
I took it to mean gone off, as in gone off the chocolate obsession, not chocolate permanately.
My friends and I are quite happy with our chocolate obsessions.
Yikes! I seem to have become a chocoholic...how did that happen?!
Candi - now 42! Posted Dec 22, 2003
I dreamed about the other night - I had gone without any for two days and in the dream I was in an enormous supermarket (in America for some reason), looking for vegan chocolate spread, .... by the end of the dream I hadn't found it, and woke up desperate for chocolate!
Luckily, when I visited my mother yesterday she gave me some - about a third of a 150 gram bar of Green & Blacks organic dark chocolate with cherries...... needless to say it was gone before bedtime....
My favourite :
http://www.greenandblacks.com/html/our_chocolate_bars.php
(My favourites are the cherry (as mentioned above!) and the Maya Gold).
http://www.montezumas.co.uk/erol.html#2030x0&&
(I 
the chilli bar)
http://www.plamilfoods.co.uk/
I have yet to try the organic cayenne and organic expressions but you can be sure I'll get round to it!
But I have tried the plain soya chocolate and that is very good
My favourite luxury :
http://www.chocolatetradingco.com/browsemanufacturer.asp?ID=3
Yikes! I seem to have become a chocoholic...how did that happen?!
Evangeline Posted Dec 22, 2003
That's odd, I tried ordering a vegan chocolate spread for our store and the distributor was out of stock. Another company, Rapunzel has a chocolate spread that we want to order(it isn't in the current catalog, but we get advance notice of new items).
I haven't tried the Green & Black's cherry bar yet. I have tried the Maya Gold, Milk, and Dark Chocolate as well as the Dark Chocolate with currants and hazelnuts. Can't decide if the next experiment will be mint chocolate or the caramel bar.
Given that chocolate has the same chemical that makes a person feel euphoric, hot peppers cause endorphin rushes, and caffeine makes a person wired, how long you reckon, before there are mocha flavored chile peppers?
Yikes! I seem to have become a chocoholic...how did that happen?!
Candi - now 42! Posted Dec 26, 2003
They could make mocha chocolate with chili in it !
My latest delight is the plamil 87% cocoa dark organic chocolate - YUM!
I also treated myself to a mixed box of booja-booja truffles - so far I have tried the hazelnut crunch rochers and the champagne truffles..both wonderful.
Yikes! I seem to have become a chocoholic...how did that happen?!
Evangeline Posted Dec 26, 2003
Oooh there's an idea...mocha chocolate with chilis...
The Aztecs would make a beverage from ground cocoa beans, water, and chilis.
*
to kitchen {there has to be a kitchen somewhere, with all the gumbo, and jambalaya around here}*
*begins melting a dark chocolate bar and brewing 
*
Yikes! I seem to have become a chocoholic...how did that happen?!
callmedave Posted Jan 4, 2004
whatever u do...? dont squeeze it.
Yikes! I seem to have become a chocoholic...how did that happen?!
Candi - now 42! Posted Jan 5, 2004
Hi Dave, are you a chocoholic? Would you like a hot ?
Yikes! I seem to have become a chocoholic...how did that happen?!
callmedave Posted Jan 5, 2004
i love it! with a passion!so much it scares me somtimes...lol
ain't i supposed to have grown out of it by now?
my little girl likes fruit pastiles and wine gums??? aarrggghhh
so i always make sure i get her something buttons lol
so there's plenty to share
by the way i'd love a hotim just off to bed
so it'll do me a treat
Yikes! I seem to have become a chocoholic...how did that happen?!
Candi - now 42! Posted Jan 5, 2004
Grow out of chocolate? No way!
I did the opposite - I wasn't too keen on it as a child but about a year ago I developed an appreciation for it.... then over the past few weeks, it has turned into an addiction.... but I can handle it - I hope...
*serves up a steaming mug of hot *
Enjoy it, hope you sleep well
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