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Hotel Chocolate less sugar more cocoa range

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KookyCat

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Hi all

You won't know this but I really really like my chocolate and lots of my lovely family and friends bought me "diabetic" chocolate for Easter. I am one of the apparently small number of people for whom artificial sweeteners taste like battery acid (really, really, really obnoxious) so the only sweetner I can tolerate is those in fizzy drinks because I think the fizziness distracts my taste buds. Anyway I felt bad because they were wasting their hard earned cash buying me something I wouldn't eat so I looked for alternatives. Hotel Chocolate do a range that has less sugar and more cocoa (mostly dark chocolate which is my favourite, but also 75% milk and 50% milk) including some 100% cocoa varieties that have no milk or sugar at all. You'd have to be an extreme Choc eater for those (I am) but just thought I'd let you know in case you don't know already. Obviously they're expensive because hotel chocolate is expensive, but nice for a treat.

NB I'm not deliberately spelling their name wrong, the autocorrect on my ipad is refusing the French spelling of the word chocolate!
 
"Diabetic" chocolate ought to be taken off the market, it's a big con! 😡

Not sure I could manage 100%, 70% is my limit! 🙂
 
It does sound extreme ... I better order some to try it!
 
We have a Hotel Chocolat and I love dark chocolate so will look for this. I walk past the shop at least once a week and never ventured in. Now I will!:D
 
🙂85% choccie is my fave
 
I can vouch for the 100% Peru Pichanaki, rather lovely after the initial shock 😱 I'm normally an 85% person though so I'm used to intense. I tried the 75% in the shop Northerner that was quite mild so that might be worth a try. Much better than that muck pedalled in Thorntons (the Diabetic range), which tastes like fat and still seems to have as much carb in it as proper chocolate :confused:
 
trophywench said:
It does sound extreme ... I better order some to try it!
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It is, I had a moment with it where I thought I couldn't swallow, then it grew on me, now I love it. I like a food that shocks the taste buds :D
 
Can vouch for the hotel chocolat ones although not tried the 100% one ....but I will now. The green and blacks 85% is my favourite closely followed by a Lidl one - 80% I think. It's a real treat at night to be able to eat a bit of this choccy.
 
KookyCat said:
Hi all

Hotel Chocolate do a range that has less sugar and more cocoa (mostly dark chocolate which is my favourite, but also 75% milk and 50% milk) including some 100% cocoa varieties that have no milk or sugar at all. You'd have to be an extreme Choc eater for those (I am) but just thought I'd let you know in case you don't know already. Obviously they're expensive because hotel chocolate is expensive, but nice for a treat.
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That sounds just to my taste. 😛 I shall have to keep my eyes open. :D
 
Didn't even know Hotel Chocolat had shops! In my neck of the woods we are severely deprived of high end shops. I make do with Aldi or Lidl 85%
 
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