ChocolateBet: December 24, 2011

Chocolate of the Day:

1/2 box
Trader Joe's
Candy Cane Coal
Very Good
Weight: 1.62 oz. (46 g.) / 3.25 oz. (92 g.) total box/package
Calories: 215 calories
Cost: $1.99 total package
Purchased from: Trader Joe's, in Mountain View, CA

Tradition has it that ill-behaved children will receive a lump of coal in the bottom of their Christmas stockings, instead of toys. Trader Joe's (Monrovia, CA) package of Candy Cane Coal makes light of this story -- with "lumps of crunchy, minty, chocolate delight." And, these tiny pieces of sweet, chocolate covered coal were pretty darn good.

Merry Christmas Eve to all.

ChocolateBet: December 26, 2009

Chocolate(s) of the Day:

1.) Palmer - Santa's Coal
1 piece
Good - Good +
Weight: .5 oz. (14.125 g.)/4 oz. (113 g.) total mesh bag of 8 pieces of "coal"
Calories: 75 calories for one piece (estimate)
Cost: $
Purchased from: Walgreens, in Palo Alto, CA

2.) Reese's - Reese's Peanut Butter Snowman
3/4 snowman
Very Good
Weight: 3.75 oz. (105.7 g)/(5 oz. (141 g.) total
Calories: 540 calories for 3/4 snowman
Cost: $4.99
Purchased from: CVS/pharmcy, in midtown Palo Alto, CA

3.) Sweet Time - Red Reindeer Noses
1 serving
Good
Weight: 0.70 oz. (20 g.) total package - chocolate round shell + red pieces inside
Calories: 100 calories
Cost: $0.59
Purchased from: Walgreens, in Palo Alto, CA

Today was a post-Christmas chocolate windfall -- from chocolate coal, to snowboarding peanut butter and chocolate snowmen and a chocolate clown nose -- no wait a minute, there were little mini red shelled chocolate candies inside this little chocolate nose orb (see image above).