Chocolate & Healthy living (intersection of tags)

Laying on my desk this morning were a stack of coins and a collection of chocolate. Why would both of these be on my desk? I run a the Maldre Post Office at my desk on the 14th floor of…

I cannot think today. In fact, I just tweeted this: Wow. I cannot think today. I wonder if this is how must humans live. — Matt's Health (@mattshealth) October 9, 2013 The very fact that I misspelled “most” reinforces the…

Thanks to lokate’s discovery of Brownie Crunch, a new idea has been born. An idea that will revolutionize how you eat cereal–chocolate cereal. It’s so incredible, I can’t decide what to name it. Take all the chocolate cereals and combine…

I so want to memorize this song and then sing it when I’m at Walgreens, in the candy aisle… or anytime I see Reese’s candy! You can have a skittle, a mento or a sweet tart. It ain’t no riddle,…

The following is a letter I sent to the Balance Bar Company: Greetings dear people of Balance, I am a fine consumer of your delightful Balance bar products. I enjoy having one before or after a workout. From time to…

Whenever I would have hot chocolate at work in my big mug, it always tasted bad. Was it the black mug sucking out the heat? Not really. Was it the Swiss Miss brand? Not really. Was it because I was…

When the only chocolate in my apartment is the empty chocolate-covered raisins bag in the garbage, it’s time for me to get some chocolate. I’m staring at the empty bag with hopes of chocolate in my head.

In various dark chocolates you’ll find claims of 65% cocoa or 70% cocoa. The cocoa percentage is nice, but what really helps you are the flavonoids in the chocolate. They reduce “bad” cholesterol and increase “good” cholesterol (source). 100 grams…

Dove very much needs to offer some sort of rewards points program. Please email Dove¬Æ and tell them to offer one. Here’s what I wrote. Feel free to copy or modify to your pleasure: =========== My dearest Dove, Your dark…

A triple threat match. Which one do people prefer the most? I want to email Kit Kat and tell them to continue to make their delicious dark chocolate kit kats, but i need the statistical ammo to convince them. So,…

Be sure you don’t read the bottom until you’ve worked it out! This is not one of those waste of time things, it’s fun. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have…

While standing in line at Walgreens to purchase six balance bars on sale, I muttered out loud, “oh crap.” The person next in line asked me, “What’s wrong?” It sounded so ridiculously silly when I responded with, “I meant to…

Hershey’s is now making York peppermint patties into chips called Swoops. And they make me *swoon.* They are soo good! So thin, so tasty. It’s the most delightful snack ever! The plain chocolate and reese’s also taste good, but there’s…

A few life lessons I learned while working at an ice cream shop in Chicago, the Beverly Yogurt Oasis, during college summers: Don’t ever put gummy bears into the ice cream; they get very cold and hard. Therefore, the hard…

Upon opening a Hershey’s Cookies ‘n’ Creme, you will see this unappetizing “chocolate cookie bits in ‘white’ chocolate.” Looks like something else to me.

ohmigosh, do not buy Yoo-hoo if you want chocolate milk. It’s like water with chocolate powder. I even tried adding five of those half-n-half mini-moo’s to give some creme texture, but it’s still awful.

You have a nice box of chocolates. You carefully pick a chocolate. With great anticipation and curiousity you bite into it only to have your mouth full of the awful texture of coconuts! Ban All Coconuts in Box of Chocolates…

A recent email I sent to the “vanilla queen” at vanilla.com What, is there some sort of vanilla brigade out there wanting to fully eliminate any traces of chocolate dominance from the planet? Face it you vanilla villians, Chocolate has…