ChocolateBet: January 20, 2009

Chocolate of the Day:
1/2 container
Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker
Chocolate Covered Zante Currants (Bittersweet Drk Choc.)
Good + - Very Good
Wt.: 2.25 oz. (63.5 grams)/ 4.5 oz. (127 g.) in total container
Calories: ~ 349 calories in 2.25 oz.
Cost: $ ? (need to find receipt)
Purchased from: (need to find receipt)

ChocolateBet: January 19, 2009

Chocolate of the Day:

2 pieces/squares
Dolfin
Chocolat Noir Anis (Dark chocolate with aniseed)
Good + - Very Good
Weight: .313 oz. (.9 grams) for 2 small squares/3.76 oz. (108 g.) in total package, variety pack of 24 squares
Calories: 47 calories (estimate) in 2 squares
Cost: $?
Purchased from: (store in Montreal, Quebec in 2008 - need to find/check receipt)

ChocolateBet: January 18, 2009

Chocolate of the Day:

3 oz.-serving
M&M's/Mars
Raspberry Almond
Good +
Wt.: 6 oz. (~170 g.) pkg. *
Calories: ~960 calories in 6 oz. pkg.*
Cost: $?
Purchased from: (need to check receipt)

*I updated quantity to reflect that fact that the second half of the package was indeed polished off later in the evening.

ChocolateBet: January 17, 2009

Chocolate of the Day:
2 pieces
Alaska Wild Berry Products
Red Raspberry
Very Good
Wt.: 1.2 oz. (34 g.)/15 oz. (425 g.) in total box
Calories: 140 calories in 2 pieces
Cost: $24.00 (+ shipping)
Purchased from: Alaska Wild Berry Products (online order)

ChocolateBet: January 16, 2009

Chocolate of the Day:

1 8 oz. serving (4 oz. hot + 4 oz. cold)
Blue Diamond
Almond Breeze - Chocolate
(Non-dairy beverage, made from almonds)
1.) Hot - Good
2.) Cold - Good +
Wt.: 8 fl oz. (240 mL)/ 32 fl. oz. (1 Qt)(946 mL) in entire carton
Calories: 120 calories in 8 oz. serving
Cost: $3.21 total
Purchased from: Safeway, Palo Alto, CA

ChocolateBet: January 15, 2009

Chocolate of the Day:
1 package
Devil in an Apron
Pecan Pie ("Georgian pecans", Tennessee bourbon, Michel Cluizel 72% dark chocolate coating)
Yum. This is sin in a little red box.
Wt.: 2.3 oz. (70 grams)
Calories: 345 calories (estim.)
Cost: $4.99 (and worth every penny I might add)
Purchased from: Whole Foods, in Los Altos, CA

Where to start? Did roadside wires start bending when the Devil's delivery truck passed by, on its way to delivering these handmade chocolates to Whole Foods? I like dark chocolate, nuts, and alcohol flavorings. This cross between pecan pie filling and a high-end dark chocolate bar is the most enjoyable combination of these elements I've found yet. I wish these folks the best and look forward to trying their other flavors.

ChocolateBet: January 14, 2009

Chocolate of the Day:

1/2 cake
IKEA (Produced in Sweden for IKEA Food Services)
Tarta Mandel (Almond Cake) (sold frozen)
Very Good - especially for a wheat-free cake
Wt.: 6.15 oz. (175 grams) for 1/2 cake/ 12.3 oz. (350 g.) for whole cake
Calories: 750 calories for 1/2 cake
Cost: $4.99 for 1 cake
Purchased from: Ikea store, in Palo Alto, CA

OK, eating half a cake (even a small one like this) is excessive, but I don't often find cake I can eat (as I don't eat gluten, wheat, flour, etc.). So this was pretty darn satisfying. The chocolate ingredient in this cake is cocoa powder.