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Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:35 am  |
I've been eating half a small bar of dark chocolate every day for the past year or two, for the supposed antioxidant effects (honestly!)
I get the kind that's at least 70 - 80% cocoa.
Wondering does anybody else here do this?
Am thinking of increasing my "dosage"  |
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Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:38 am |
I love dark chocolate but I had to give up all caffiene because it causes my heart to beat irregularly.  |
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Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:50 am |
Freefall2,
I'm with you. I love dark chocolate too! I just love the potency of it...the mixture of bitter and sweet. Yummy.  |
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Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:00 am |
I have had to give up all chocolate  due to lactose intollerance but when I used to enjoy chocolate I loved Lindt 70% cocoa solids and for you hardcores out there I recomend the Lindt 85% cocoa solids.
Green and Blacks do delicious chocolate.
For anyone who is like me I have just discovered Chocolate flavoured tea: Celestial Seasonings and Yucca do good Chocolate tea |
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Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:31 am |
| rosebud wrote: |
when I used to enjoy chocolate I loved Lindt 70% cocoa solids and for you hardcores out there I recomend the Lindt 85% cocoa solids.
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The Lindt 70% is my regular that I have every day... just half of one of the small bars. Of course I only do this for the purported skin benefits 
Hey, Rosebud, re your lactose intolerance, I always thought this kind of dark choc contained no milk, so I got a bar of 70% Lindt out of the fridge to check the ingredients. There's no milk products listed as ingredients, as such, but it does state that it may contain "traces" of peanuts, soy, hazelnuts, almonds and MILK. Maybe they make it in the same factories where they make the milk chocs, so there's the risk of cross-contamination? Maybe you can find a brand of dark choc without any traces of milk? But you've probably looked into that already, as you seem to know your chocolate  |
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Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:52 am |
I usually end up eating chocolate every day - but I'm not going to embarrass myself by pretending that it's for health reasons.
Happily, I do prefer dark, intensely flavoured chocolate, which is supposed to be better for you. But I have been known to eat cooking chocolate when there was nothing else in the house and I absolutely had to have some.
I'm another Lindt and G&B fan, but would always, always choose La Maison du Chocolat instead, given the option. Personally, I think that's the best chocolate in the world. Belgian chocolate is too sweet and sickly for my taste. (So says the cooking chocolate eating freakoid.  ) |
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Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:08 am |
| I'm a big coffee drinker, but when I was living in Japan I didn't care for the coffee that was available so I started pouring boiling water over unsweetened cocoa powder and drinking it in the mornings--- it was delicious!!^-^ |
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Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:12 am |
| majorb wrote: |
| I have been known to eat cooking chocolate when there was nothing else in the house and I absolutely had to have some. |
When I was eating it a lot, it usually was chunks from a baking bar. I'd get the Bernard Callebaut bittersweet or semisweet 16oz baking bars and bash them into little chunks with a kitchen mallet. I still have a bit of that in the fridge and when I really have to have a taste that's what I nibble. I only have it in the morning because I can handle the arrhythmia during the day but it keeps me awake at night. |
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Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:45 am |
| I love milk chocolate, hate the dark stuff. My husband eats the dark stuff so you could say we have a partnership based upon the keeping the mitts off each others chocolate |
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Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:38 pm |
| I love, love, love chocolate. However, I have been watching how much I eat lately. Also, I am not a big fan of dark chocolate. |
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Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:06 pm |
I eat milk chocolate for a calcium benefits.
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Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:24 pm |
| I have a chocolate allergy which totally sucks. I try my best to avoid it. |
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Sat Aug 26, 2006 2:56 pm |
| I binge on chocolate every day - when i am at work - i go out and buy several bars of chocolate and eat them after lunch........ |
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Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:52 pm |
| All I can say is Mmmmmmmmmmmmm Chocolate! |
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Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:34 pm |
| I actually FOUND a bar of Lindt 99% - but yeah, that's not very good for eating |
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Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:10 pm |
| Yen wrote: |
| I have a chocolate allergy which totally sucks. I try my best to avoid it. |
That's interesting - I thought I was the only one! It's not fair. Why not an allergy to anchovies, liver, or anything else like this  - oh it's so sad... 
OK, enough drama. Seriously, I react only to milk chocolate, but not dark - which is my favorite anyhow. |
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Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:25 pm |
Not to start a riot but I don't like chocolate very much and only eat it once or twice a year. Of course, I don't have a big sweet tooth so that's probably why.
I think I am in the minority! |
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Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:39 pm |
I like to eat the chocolate that others, like scalawaggirl leave behhind. I wouldn't want there to be homeless, unloved, unwanted chocolate in the world. I am non-discriminating when it comes to chocolate.
I was especially happy to hear that they say pregnant moms who eat chocolate have happier babies. So now, I do it for next-generation. We don't want a bunch of sulky, ticked-off people running the country when we're old.
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Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:53 pm |
| scalawaggirl wrote: |
Not to start a riot but I don't like chocolate very much and only eat it once or twice a year. Of course, I don't have a big sweet tooth so that's probably why.
I think I am in the minority! |
Mmmmmmmmmmm that means more for us
Chocolate, the 5th food group  |
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Sun Aug 27, 2006 2:52 am |
| I am not a big fan of dark chocolates, however my high school math teacher was so whenever we had exam she would bring these dark chocolate bars and they are by far the best one I've had. I can't remember the brand though. |
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Sun Aug 27, 2006 5:29 am |
| ArtTeacher wrote: |
I was especially happy to hear that they say pregnant moms who eat chocolate have happier babies. So now, I do it for next-generation. We don't want a bunch of sulky, ticked-off people running the country when we're old.
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I am so happy to hear that
Now I know why I have to have my chocolate...and though I am not pregnant (yet!)here's to happier future babies
Love my Lindt Wafers ! |
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Sun Aug 27, 2006 6:13 am |
[quote="Poppy
Love my Lindt Wafers ![/quote]
 Mmmmmmmmmmm Lindt Wafers |
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Sun Aug 27, 2006 9:58 am |
| sormuimui wrote: |
| I actually FOUND a bar of Lindt 99% - but yeah, that's not very good for eating |
99%! That must be some serious chocolate. Did you try it? I find even the 85% a little bitter for my taste and stick with the 70% |
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Sun Aug 27, 2006 10:38 am |
| i love chocolate not so crazy about the dark kind but i have been trying to buy it for the benefit of my skin |
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Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:28 pm |
| You mean eating chocolate will help my skin? Well, that's great news! |
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