Sweets

[Kaylz]

Well seen as my tasted have changed and I no longer like the malteser reindeer I'm going to have to give them to my mum as for the milky bar I'm not even going to bother trying it so that will have to go to the other half but I will still eat the peanut butter kit kats but it got me thinking I'm not going to give up the occasional chocolate bar but why don't british companies make a variety of their products with dark chocolate - I can only think of at the moment kit kat, bounty, kinder bueno and I think terry's do a dark chocolate orange but not sure x

 

[john pardo]

You can get dark chocolate orange, i now have 85% dark chocolate as it's better for me

 

[Kaylz]

You can get dark chocolate orange, i now have 85% dark chocolate as it's better for me

Yeah I usually have the 85% stuff too but give in to a kit kat peanut butter chunky x

 

[KookyCat]

Dark chocolate isn't very popular it seems, I've always had a preference for dark, the darker the better but it's tricky to get hold of. Aldi and Lidl do some excellent dark chocolate though including dark chocolate bars, Aldi do a lovely orange fondant thing, not super low in carbs but rather delicious. They're reasonable priced as well. My favourite is hotel chocolat but you need a second mortgage for their stuff! You don't even see black magic around much anymore which was always my Christmas treat when I was a kid (strange tastes even then). I think the Brits like their chocolate sweet, which furthers my belief that I'm really German and I got switched at birth, that would also explain my height and the fact that every one of my family is olive toned with black hair, then there's me slightly ginger, corpse pale, with distinctly continental taste in food....good God I actually think I was switched 😱...did I mention I love a Birkenstock, a good Bavarian cheese and I'm genetically programmed to only walk when the green man shows 😱

 

[Kaylz]

I've always preferred dark chocolate too fortunately I can get black magic quite easily round here, currently no aldi near me but will have a look in lidl x

 

[Radders]

Last weekend I decided to experiment in making some chocolates for myself using the very dark Lidl chocolate (81% cocoa solids).
I found some tiny petit four cases in the cupboard that I think came from Poundland, so I made peanut butter cups, Nutella cups, coated Brazils and some pralines which were just chocolate and peanut butter mixed. They worked out between 1 (the coated Brazils) and 4g ( Nutella cups) carbs each and were very yummy.
I much prefer milk chocolate but am training my tastebuds. It is working: I ate some Galaxy yesterday and found it far too sweet, which is not a phrase that has ever really figured in my vocabulary before!

My Mum always preferred dark chocolate but she was alone in our family!

 

[PhoebeC]

Green and black do some very nice flavors.
And most supermarkets do there own dark chocolate versions.

 

[Kaylz]

I have plenty green and blacks in the house don't worry about that haha x

 

[Kaylz]

Last weekend I decided to experiment in making some chocolates for myself using the very dark Lidl chocolate (81% cocoa solids).
I found some tiny petit four cases in the cupboard that I think came from Poundland, so I made peanut butter cups, Nutella cups, coated Brazils and some pralines which were just chocolate and peanut butter mixed. They worked out between 1 (the coated Brazils) and 4g ( Nutella cups) carbs each and were very yummy.
I much prefer milk chocolate but am training my tastebuds. It is working: I ate some Galaxy yesterday and found it far too sweet, which is not a phrase that has ever really figured in my vocabulary before!

My Mum always preferred dark chocolate but she was alone in our family!

Out of curiosity what is the carbs in Lidl chocolate, could do with a cheaper alternative haha x

 

[Kaylz]

Dark chocolate isn't very popular it seems, I've always had a preference for dark, the darker the better but it's tricky to get hold of. Aldi and Lidl do some excellent dark chocolate though including dark chocolate bars, Aldi do a lovely orange fondant thing, not super low in carbs but rather delicious. They're reasonable priced as well. My favourite is hotel chocolat but you need a second mortgage for their stuff! You don't even see black magic around much anymore which was always my Christmas treat when I was a kid (strange tastes even then). I think the Brits like their chocolate sweet, which furthers my belief that I'm really German and I got switched at birth, that would also explain my height and the fact that every one of my family is olive toned with black hair, then there's me slightly ginger, corpse pale, with distinctly continental taste in food....good God I actually think I was switched 😱...did I mention I love a Birkenstock, a good Bavarian cheese and I'm genetically programmed to only walk when the green man shows 😱

Happy to mention I will be getting some of the individually wrapped Moser Roth bars there is a plus side to having a OH with work mates that live in a town with an Aldi haha x

 

[Radders]

Out of curiosity what is the carbs in Lidl chocolate, could do with a cheaper alternative haha x

The one I used is 24g per 100g.

 

[Kaylz]

The one I used is 24g per 100g.

Thanks will have to get myself up there for a look 🙂 x

 

[khskel]

Tesco do a nice own brand 85% £1 per 100g bar about 22 g of carbs per bar

 

[Kaylz]

Tesco do a nice own brand 85% £1 per 100g bar about 22 g of carbs per bar

Just had a look at it will have to give it a go and I'm assuming they are bigger squares than Green & Blacks so will be much easier to break too 🙂 x