ChocolateBet: April 15, 2008

Chocolate of the Day:

1 piece
Camille Bloch
Cognac Noir (Dark Chocolate bar, with Cognac filling)
Very Good
Wt: .5 oz. (14.2 g.) / 3.5 oz. (100 g.) total bar
Calories: ~ 75 cals.
Cost: $5.99
Purchased from: Z. Cioccolatos, in San Francisco, CA

Happy U.S. Tax deadline day.

ChocolateBet: April 14, 2008

Chocolate of the Day:
1 piece
Ethel M/ethel's chocolate
Coconut Samba
Good+ -Very Good
Wt: ~.4 oz.
Calories: ~75
Cost: $1.50/pc.
Purchased from: ethel's chocolate lounge/store in Las Vegas Airport, NV.

ChocolateBet: April 13, 2008

Chocolate of the Day:
1 piece
Ethel M/ethel's chocolate
Macademia Crunch - Dark Choc. version
Very Good
Wt: ~.4 oz.
Calories: ~75 calories/pc
Cost: $1.50/pc
Purchased from: ethel's chocolate lounge, Terminal C in the Las Vegas Airport, NV

ChocolateBet: April 12, 2008

Chocolate of the Day:
1 piece
Ethel M/ethel's chocolate
Raspberry Rhapsody
Very Good
Wt: ~.4 oz.
Calories: ~75 calories
Cost: $1.50
Purchased from: Ethel M shop/ethel's chocolate lounge, in Terminal C of the Las Vegas airport, NV
(picture of chocolate to follow); traveling on business this week.

ChocolateBet: April 11, 2008

Chocolate of the Day:

1 brownie
Arrowhead Mills brownie mix + Lucerne Cream Cheese + other
= home-baked cream cheese brownies
Very Good
Wt: ~4 oz.
Calories: Probably a lot (300?)
Cost: Total estim. cost for ingreds. = ~$10.00
Purchased from: Piazzas, in Palo Alto + Safeway in Palo Alto, CA

This is Day #8 of eating items that have both chocolate and cheese in them, and this concludes Chocolate and Cheese Week on the blog.

It's on to thinking about the next "theme." I am contemplating - chocolate cats and dogs, chocolate mice, chocolate items of the old West, chocolate and meat (not as bad as it sounds - I think), chocolate cars and trucks, and many more.

ChocolateBet: April 10, 2008

Chocolate of the Day:

5 pieces
Meiji Seika Food Industry Co. Ltd.
Meltyblend - Green Tea
Very Good
Weight: 20 grams / (total box = 2.2 oz.)
Calories: 120 calories for 5 pieces
Cost: $2.39 (estimate) for 1 package
Purchased from: (small shop in Chinatown, in San Francisco, CA)

This is Day #7 of eating items with both chocolate and cheese. Chocolate and cheese week continues, for at least one more day (tomorrow), and after that I may run out of items. We'll see. I'll have to move on to a new chocolate-related theme.

These chocolate/cocoa powder covered Meltyblend Green Tea confections from Meiji Seiki Food Industry (Shanghai; Product of China) contained whole milk powder, and cream cheese powder. I like tea flavors, so this flavor combination worked for me.

ChocolateBet: April 9, 2008

Chocolate of the Day:

1 serving
Kraft Philadelphia
Ready-to-eat Cheesecake Filling (Chocolate Dream)
OK+ - Good; very convenient - just spoon into a crust and eat; however, it doesn't quite have the flavor of a home-baked from scratch version. Trade-offs.
Wt: 86 grams in 1 srvg; 24.3 oz. (1 lb. 8.3 oz. (688 g) total container
Calories: 270 calories in 1 serving
Cost: $5.49 for a whole container
Purchased from: Safeway, in Palo Alto, CA

Welcome to Day #6 of Chocolate Cheese week on my blog. Today, I had a few spoonfuls of chocolate cheesecake - the filling and not the crust (as I can't have wheat).