ChocolateBet: March 24, 2008

Chocolate of the Day:

1 chocolate egg
Dove/Mars
Smooth Milk Chocolate Truffle Egg
Very Good - Dove chocolates have a nice richness and smooth texture that balances out the sweetness in a way that is not always achieved with other chocolates.
Wt. 0.90 oz. (25.5 grams)
Calories: 150 calories
Cost: $ 0.79
Purchased from: Walgreens, in Palo Alto, CA

This chocolate egg will be the last (I think) in the Easter-related chocolates this week. Chocolate "theme weeks" are always fun.

Chocolate Eggs in the News
Reports of very large chocolate Easter eggs surface from time to time. Apparently the largest egg to date was made in Belgium. The egg measured 8.32 meters (27 ft) high and was made of at least 50,000 bars or around 2,000 kg of chocolate. (This fact appeared in a 3/24/08 article entitled "Giant chocolate Easter egg made in Brazil" about a slightly smaller 160 kg (352 lb.) Brazilian egg, courtesy of the Russian News Information Agency.)

ChocolateBet: March 23, 2008

Chocolate of the Day:

1 peep
Just Born
Peeps - Marshmallow Bunnies (Cocoa)
Good+ - nice light cocoa flavor
Wt: ~.3 oz. (~8.4 grams) per peep; 2 3/8 oz. (67 grams) total
Calories: 30 calories per peep
Cost: $0.59? (sale?)
Purchased from: Walgreens, in Palo Alto, CA

Cocoa flavored-peeps. How great is that.

ChocolateBet: March 22, 2008

Chocolate of the Day:

3 solid milk chocolate bunny ears
(1 ear each from Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail chocolate bunnies)
Beatrix Potter The Tale of Peter Rabbit (3 diff bunny characters in series)
Distributed by Frankford Candy & Chocolate C.O.
Product of Chile
Good+ (A bit sweet but richer tasting than most milk chocolate)
Wt: .1 oz. (each ear) x 3 ears = .3 oz.
Calories: ~ 45 calories in three small ears
Cost: $4.50 for all three bunnies (~$1.50 each) sale price
Purchased from: Walgreens, in Palo Alto, CA

ChocolateBet: March 21, 2008

Chocolate of the Day:

1/4 choc cross
Palmer (R.M. Palmer Company)
May His Light Shine Upon You (solid milk chocolate-shaped cross)
Good
Weight: 1 oz. (28 grams)
Calories: 37 calories (150 calories total)
Cost: $0.99
Purchased from: Walgreens, in Palo Alto, CA

ChocolateBet: March 20, 2008

Chocolate of the Day:

1 serving
Palmer (R.M. Palmer Co.)
Hear My Prayer Double Crisp
(A pair of chocolate hands folded in prayer)
Very Good
Wt. 1.5 oz. (42.5 grams)
Calories: 220
Cost: $0.99
Purchased from: Walgreens, in Palo Alto, CA

I was thinking good thoughts while munching on the chocolate hands. This was another Easter related chocolate for this week leading up to Easter Sunday.

Chocolate Bunnies in the news...

I read in an article that last year that more than 90 million chocolate rabbits were produced in the U.S. for Easter. This data apparently came from the National Confectioners Association.

"A survey by the association revealed that 76 percent of chocolate bunny eaters bite the ears first, and 42 percent of sweet eaters preferred solid chocolate bunnies. Of those people surveyed, 21 percent said they preferred a hollow chocolate bunny, 10 percent wanted to see a marshmallow bunny in their basket and 9 percent wanted other types of Easter candies."

This information was from a (New Hampshire) "Telegraph" article by Andrea Bushee entitled "Sweet shops make their own chocolate bunnies" that ran yesterday, Wed. March 19, 2008.

ChocolateBet: March 19, 2008

Chocolate of the Day:

1/2 pkg eggs
Cadbury
Mini Eggs (Solid Milk Chocolate with a Crisp Sugar Shell)
Very Good
Weight: .75 oz. (21 grams); out of a total of 1.5 oz. (42 grams) total pkg.
Calories: 105 calories for 1/2 pkg (210 total)
Cost: $0.59 per package
Purchased from: Walgreens, in Palo Alto, CA

More Easter holiday themed chocolates - little chocolate eggs this time. Chocolate bunnies in to-be-eaten-next pile are getting nervous...

ChocolateBet: March 18, 2008

Chocolate of the Day:

1 egg
Reese's
Fudge Peanut Butter Egg
Very Good
Weight: 1.2 oz. (34 grams)
Calories: 180 calories in 1 egg
Cost: $0.41
Purchased from: Walgreens, in Palo Alto, CA

Continuing along the Easter theme this week....I ate an egg, Reese's style. And it was very good. I've never meet a Reese's peanut butter item I didn't like.