"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> brooklyn1 wrote:
>> "Dave Smith" wrote:
>>> Then I discovered dark chocolate. It is a little strange that on the
>>> rare occasion that I eat milk chocolate I keep eating it, even though I
>>> inevitably suffer for it, but I find that a small amount of dark
>>> chocolate is very satisfying.
>>> Once in a while I buy a large dark chocolate bar and have one square
>>> every day or two, and a bar lasts for weeks.
>>
>> You're kidding... I don't think I believe that.
>
> Believe it or not, but it's true.
>
>> I can only buy a bar of chocolate very occasionally... if I bought
>> chocolate every day I'd eat it all that day, probably all within the half
>> hour. If I bought ten chocolate bars I'd eat them all that day too,
>> probably eat them non stop. Someone told me that if I put chocolate in
>> the freezer I wouldn't eat it... yeah, right.
>
>
> You are probably getting milk chocolate. As I have said, if I start eating
> milk chocolate I get a powerful urge to eat more and more until it is all
> gone.... and then I suffer. That doesn't happen when I eat dark
> chocolate. I find it very satisfying. I can break off a square two of that
> and nibble on that and have no craving for more.
>
> I usually pick up my bittersweet chocolate bars at a German deli when I go
> for cream cheese. I may pick up a chocolate bar every second or third
> visit.
>
>
>
> If you find that you are eating too much chocolate to dare to have it
> around the house, and if you like the bittersweet stuff, you should give
> it a try. Pick up a bar of good bittersweet and have just a square or two
> at a time.

I mostly eat dark chocolate, in fact dark chocolate is much more of a magnet
for me than milk chocolate. I also have a terrible weakness for black
licorice. I don't keep chocolate or licorice in the house or it'll be all
gone before I go to bed that night... oh, and also pistachio nuts is another
big weakness. And I'm not much of a sweets/snack food junkie but those
three call me like a siren. Right now for snacks I have a pound bag of
pretzel rods, but I can eat 2-3 and put the rest way for days. Last week I
had a 1 lb bag of black licorice jelly beans, polished them off in two
evenings.