David Gillespie - Chocy Night

04 Aug 2011 1:08 AM

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When my kids were little, Friday night was Chocy Night. I daren't arrive home from work without some chocolate for them. My daughter did the same with her kids.

I have continued the practice in adulthood, only stopping when I started on a fructose-free life last year. I miss the ritual rather than the sweetness. So I recently tried some 70% cocoa chocolate. To my delight I found that iit is so rich to taste that I can only eat a few small pieces before I just can't take another one. Problem solved :-)

05 Aug 2011 2:28 AM

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John, good on you, but be careful, it has calories too, and does has some sugar. Plus I can't let myself have it, as I just don't trust myself with chocolate, even though I'm neutral when shopping & I can actually smell it. I don't trust it. It's evil!! haha........

So, okay if you can resist not having more than 1 or 2 pieces now & then, but not every night, then I guess it will be all right, but I would still be wary of it....it's crafty stuff that fructose, it creeps up on you & ZAP!!!! There you are all addicted again. hehe

Just thought I'd brighten up your day, John. go on, havalaff!!!

Silver Angel

Spreading the Love around

SMILE!

13 Aug 2011 5:41 PM

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Just be careful with the sugar content John - best to eat the 85% dark choc (my favourite is Green and Blacks - super smooth - I buy it in coles). 85% dark choc has 1/4 of the sugar that the 70% has and that's pretty significant (from vague memory - its about 48-50ish grams of sugar per 100gm for the 70% and only 12-14gm sugar per 100gm for the 85%). Tastes very strong and bitter at first - I couldn't eat it at all pre sugar free but love it now when I want to eat chocolate.

06 Sep 2011 3:16 AM

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thanks for that one, I do love the 85% so I will love it even more when the sugar cravings are gone. Will check out Lindt as well

07 Sep 2011 7:19 PM

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Hi Guys,
Just to let you know that I find the 'well,naturally' brand (from Coles or Woollies )sugar free dark chocolate yummy and quite satisfying and can actually limit myself to two squares a day.
No artificial colours, flavours or preservatives and only o.2g of sugar per 100g (from chocolate).
Works for me. Took a couple of bars to acquire the taste but now prefer it to "normal "chocolate.
I keep my 'treat' for the same time each day just when I am settling down to watch the news each night.
Hope this helps,
From an "eat the whole block" Choccy lover.

07 Sep 2011 10:16 PM

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patricia jarvis wrote:Hi Guys,
Just to let you know that I find the 'well,naturally' brand (from Coles or Woollies )sugar free dark chocolate yummy and quite satisfying and can actually limit myself to two squares a day.
No artificial colours, flavours or preservatives and only o.2g of sugar per 100g (from chocolate).
Works for me. Took a couple of bars to acquire the taste but now prefer it to "normal "chocolate.
I keep my 'treat' for the same time each day just when I am settling down to watch the news each night.
Hope this helps,
From an "eat the whole block" Choccy lover.

Hi Patricia
sorry to be a wet blanket, but "Well naturally" chocolate appears in David's "Sweet Poison Quit Plan" on page180 under the heading of "Unsafe"

Page 188 tells us what Polydextrose does inside our bodies.

cheers
Freda

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