Weight Management

So, it’s no secret that one of my most favourite foods is chocolate.... ummmmmh.

As a child, any chocolate would do... funky animal chocolate bars, creamy Caramacs, chunky Yorkies, which were most definitely for little girls in my opinion!

However, after embarking on my intuitive eating programme, and listening to my body, I found that the cheaper quality chocolate was starting to make me feel a bit sick. Too much milk and other processed fat, and not enough cocoa bean. So I then converted to the darker varieties of chocolate. And oh did that hit the spot! Smaller quantities of more intense flavour, which you could really savour and taste as it melted in the mouth. Green and Blacks Cherry became a particular favourite, along with Lindt Orange and Almond (I’m not being sponsored by the way, but I am open to offers!).

I started to become a real chocolate snob, ‘Oh, I’m sorry, I don’t eat THAT sort of chocolate, I prefer dark intense chocolate’! I was becoming worse than a reformed smoker!

But, just as when you up grade your car or mobile to a better make and model, you find it very irritating to deal with any less... I was then introduced by my mum (thanks mum) to Hotel Chocolat. Oh, the chocolate is to die for, the quality and texture is the most dreamiest of dreamiest that ever a dreamy thing could find! I’m in a frenzy of excitement and dilemma, when I paw my way round the Trafford Centre shop, hot footed by my 6 year old daughter who is also in ecstasy! The drool forms rivulets as I umm and err over salted caramels, or pralines or Eton Mess or......

However, this addiction does not come cheaply! Damn, why have I forsaken good old Cadbury’s? Please no one introduce me to anything more superior for fear of my bank account being quickly depleted!