ChocolateBet: March 14, 2010

Chocolate of the Day:
1 "potato"
See's Candies
St. Patrick's Day Potato
Good + - Very Good
Weight: 2 oz. (56 grams)
Calories: 340 calories for 1 potato
Cost: $3.50 (gift from Megan - thank you!)
Purchased from: See's Candies, in/at Stanford Shopping Center, Palo Alto, CA

This week has been a salute to the color green, and countdown to St. Patrick's Day. Hats off to the chocolatiers at See's. This really looked like a baked potato, inside and out.

ChocolateBet: March 13, 2010

Chocolate(s) of the Day:

1.) World Market - Dark Chocolate (bar) 72% cacao; 1/5 bar
Good + - Very Good
Weight: .6 oz. (17 g.)/3 oz. (85 g.) total bar
Calories: 88 calories in 1/5 bar
Cost: $1.99 total bar
Purchased from: World Market/Cost Plus, in Mountain View, CA

2.) World Market - Reserved Green Tea - Chocolate Jasmine tea (1 tea bag)
Good+
Weight: .07 oz. (2 g.)/1.55 oz. (44 g.) total container of 22 bags
Calories: 1 calorie (estimate) in one tea bag
Cost: $6.99 for total container, 22 bags
Purchased from: World Market/Cost Plus, in Mountain View, CA

A toast to St. Patrick's Day this next week, with Green chocolate tea today. The tea did contain roasted cacao nibs. However, just in case some think this isn't "real chocolate," I sampled part of a dark chocolate bar, also from World Market/Cost Plus.

ChocolateBet: March 12, 2010

Chocolate of the Day:
1 package
Kara Chocolates
Leprechaun Droppings - Gold Coins
Good - Good +
Weight: 2 oz. (56 g.) in total package
Calories: 299 calories
Cost: $3.99
Purchased from: Piazzas Fine Foods, in Palo Alto, CA

I tried another type of gold chocolate coinage today. This time courtesy of a leprechaun.

ChocolateBet: March 11, 2010

Chocolate of the Day:

1/2 container
Lucerne Foods
Mint Chocolate Chip flavored ice cream
Good +
Weight: 3.75 oz. (111 mL)/ 7.5 oz. (222 mL) total container
Calories: 180 calories in 1/2 container
Cost:
Purchased from: Safeway

It seemed appropriate to eat green foods in honor of St. Patrick's Day next week. And this ice cream was a nice green color, although probably with the assistance of some artificial coloring.

ChocolateBet: March 10, 2010

Chocolate of the Day:
1 piece
Cadbury Roses (assortment package with 10 different flavors)
Caramel
Good - Good +
Weight: .35 oz. (10 g.) in 1 piece / 7.7 oz. (220 g.) total package
Calories: 51 calories in 1 piece (estimate)
Cost: $7.99 for total package
Purchased from: World Market/Cost Plus, in Mountain View, CA

I was wondering....But, fortunately, when I took the shiny aqua blue wrapper off this Caramel, I found it came coated with chocolate. Because, it would have been awful if I'd had to eat yet another piece of chocolate today if this one didn't work out.

ChocolateBet: March 9, 2010

Chocolate(s) of the Day:

1.) Cadbury Roses (assortment box of 10 different flavors) - 1 piece
"Golden Barrel" - Good + - Very Good (gold wrapper)
Weight: .35 oz. (10 g.) in 1 piece /7.7 oz. (220 g.) total package
Calories: 51 calories
Cost: $7.99 for total package of 10 flavors
Purchased from: World Market/Cost Plus, in Mountain View, CA

Nice butterscotch flavor. Yes, it was sweet, but in a good way.

2.) Cadbury Roses (assortment box of 10 different flavors) - 1 tiny bar
"Blush" - Good + - Very Good
Weight: .316 oz. (9 g.)/.95 oz. (27 g.) total package/box of 3 tiny bars
Calories: 44 calories in 1 tiny bar (estimate)
Cost: (don't have info)
Purchased from: (don't have info)

I liked the tiny 9 gram size bar. Larger bars are harder to finish if there are not people to share them with at the time.

ChocolateBet: March 8, 2010

Chocolate(s) of the Day:

3 pieces
Cadbury Roses (assortment package of 10 different flavors)
1.) Hazel in Caramel (2 pieces) - Good - Good +
2.) Hazel Whirls (1 piece) - Good - Good +
Weight: 1.06 oz. (30 g.) in 3 pieces / 7.7 oz. (220 g.) total package
Calories: 153 calories in 3 pieces (estimate)
Cost: $7.99 for total package
Purchased from: World Market/Cost Plus, in Mountain View, CA

The Roses assortment box has allowed me to try several different, individually-wrapped Cadbury chocolates this past week. Some were even adulterated and mixed with real roses and other edible flowers. (See Chocolate and Flower Theme Week posts, March 1-7, 2010.) Today was hazelnut and chocolate day. (See image.) I tried two of Cadbury's Hazel in Caramel chocolates (shown in front with shiny purple wrapper), and one of the Hazel Whirls (in back of this group with purple and orange wrapper).