Here’s a little primer on handling chocolate cravings responsibly…..from a pregnant lady who knows!
I’m not going to tell you to drink some water and eat a piece of fruit. Or to have something sour instead and hope the craving goes away. No, my opinion is that if you’re craving chocolate, EAT IT!
But don’t eat a whole pound and remember that not all chocolate is created equally.
The three cardinal rules of indulging in chocolate
- Do go for dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate
- Don’t eat a whole chocolate bar, tub of chocolate ice cream, or bag of chocolate chips.
- Do explore new ground
By eating dark chocolate instead of milk chocolate your sugar intake will be lower and your antioxidant intake will be higher. Less of the bad stuff and more of the good stuff. Excellent.
By not eating the whole kaboodle all at once you’ll save some for next time and you won’t be so overwhelmed by guilt, thereby allowing yourself a next time.
By exploring new territory you too might encounter a certain fantastic new little treat that just blissfully entered my world.
Q.bel Chocolates are the brain child of a husband and wife team who wanted to appease their 10-year-old, sweets loving son but wanted to do so in a natural and wholesome way. So they created Q.bel Chocolates; all free of artificial flavors, colors and preservatives, free of hydrogenated oils, and free of high fructose corn syrup. Q.bel opened for business in the beginning of 2009, and by the end of the year it was already the number one natural chocolate covered wafer in the country, selling over a million chocolate wafers!
They have two products: Chocolate Wafer Rolls and Chocolate Wafer Bars.
Here’s how they describe them:
Decadent but light. You’ll know from the first crisp and creamy bite that these filled and enrobed wafers hit the sweet spot. We start with a thin batter and form it into a roll while it’s still soft. We add just the right amount of all natural filling, and cover the whole thing in classic milk or semi-sweet dark chocolate. Getting the right balance of wafer, filling,and chocolate is an obsession for us. We think we finally got it, though.
When we set out to make chocolate wafers bars, we had no idea how many variables were involved. How thin should each layer of wafer be? How sweet should we make the batter? How many layers? How much filling? How much chocolate? Our quest was for a product that would gratify and satisfy with just the right combination of light and airy wafer, delectable cream filling, and exceptional Belgian chocolate covering the whole shebang.
So, dig in and enjoy!
Trust me…I am!!
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