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Ah chocolate, that delicious creamy treat that is everyone’s vice. We just can’t get enough of the stuff, even though we know the amount we consume is ultimately bad for us, we just can’t resist it, so there tends to be a guilt edged pleasure about eating it. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a healthy chocolate?

And the good new is that there is a healthy chocolate out there. There are many good things in chocolate such as vitamins and minerals, so what is it that makes it generally so unhealthy?

The thing is we mess about with our chocolate something rotten. We get the basic product then add loads of other stuff to it, such as extra butter, sugar, milk solids etc which enhance the flavor but make it very fattening. Dark chocolate, however, doesn’t have any of these added, but there is one more thing to think about.

Our bodies do not recognize chocolate as food, weird huh? Eat a bar of chocolate on its own and your body will pick up on the sugar etc and just store it, and the minerals and vitamins won’t be absorbed.

It’s a little known fact that dark chocolate has a very high iron content; so a perfect complement is food such a blueberries which are rich in vitamin C. This balances the nutrition and makes sure that your body absorbs the iron from the chocolate properly, and tastes delicious at the same time.

As dark chocolate contains a lot of iron, eating it with foods high in Vitamin C ensures that all the nutrients are absorbed and you get all the benefits. You have the best of both world here; you get all the iron, vitamins etc and it tastes absolutely gorgeous as well.

I used to work as a chocolatier, so you can imagine how much chocolate I used to eat! As I ate dark chocolate complimented with strawberries, blueberries, nuts etc I never put any weight on. A blood test also proved that I had the optimum level of minerals and vitamins in my system.

Next time you need your chocolate fix, ignore the fattening and unhealthy milk chocolate and reach for the dark chocolate with the fruit and nuts. No guilt but every bit as delicious.

Like everything else, if you eat too much chocolate it becomes unhealthy, so watch your consumption.

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Cooking is one of our favorite hobbies, we love going into the kitchen and creating tasty meals and treats fro our loved ones. What we don’t love, however, is the trail of destruction that we leave behind. How come there’s so much mess?

This has bugged us for generations, well, since the days of masters and servants ceased to exist. At one time, all our ancestors had to do was sit at the table, have their meals brought to them and then retire. The staff downstairs had to worry about all the tidying up.

If you were at the other end of the social scale and didn’t have servants it wasn’t a problem either as you couldn’t afford to cook elaborate meals so there was little, if anything to clean up.

The thing is, with today’s so called time saving gadgets, there seems to be more mess than ever. As well as utensils we have used, there are also a stack of appliances such as blenders that need to be cleaned out.

The nearest most of us have to servants these days is a cleaner once or twice a week, and a war zone kitchen isn’t really in her job description! So we still stress about how we can continue cooking, but without the mess.

Cooking is one of my great passions in life, tidying up after myself is not. I’ve tried various things to lessen this chore; most of them didn’t work, I’m happy to report that this one did.

Clean as you go is now my kitchen motto. Keep a bowl of hot, soapy water and wash each piece as soon as you’ve used it. Then when you’ve finished, there will only be the last couple of things that you’ve used, so much better than a teetering pile of dirty dishes.

In the long run, leaving everything to the end is making more work for yourself. This is particularly difficult if you have guests for dinner, you know what a state your kitchen is in but can’t abandon your guests to go and clean up. Cleaning as you go means you can enjoy your evening as you know your kitchen is okay.

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Was there ever a greater drink invented than Cola? I don’t think so. The amount of soda I consume is scary, so I guess you could call me an addict.

Although cola is my favorite I don’t stop there and will try any flavored beverage that I can get my hands on. I get such a buzz from finding a little known drink, trying it, and finding that it’s delicious.

You know what really bugs the hell out of me? when the list of ingredients includes such things as corn syrup and high fructose. These have been processed so cannot be called natural ingredients.

Bearing this in mind, I’m going to point you towards a few sodas which I find delicious and think that they are seriously underrated.

One of our most popular beverages in the US is root beer, and Virgil’s make the tastiest root beer that I have ever tasted. Many other people think this also, judging by the amount of awards this drink has won.

From the same manufacturer comes the wonderfully named and utterly delicious black cherry vanilla cream soda. This has a sublime flavor and so deserves to be better known than it is.

A great cola without any stupidly named ingredients is by Boylan’s and it’s a traditional tasting sugar cane cola. This has pure cane sugar and other true natural ingredients which will really give your taste buds a treat.

My final choice is the green teas soda range that is produced by Steaz. These drinks blend fruit flavor with green tea. There are many varieties to choose from including lemon & lime, raspberry, root beer and orange. Another benefit of these is that thanks to the green tea they are healthier than ordinary sodas.

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I have a friend from San Francisco who recently moved out there a few years ago. He came back to visit over the holidays, and we began talking about coffee.

I had told him about a new coffee place by me that I said roasted the best beans I had ever had. At this point, he proceeded to correct me by saying that the best coffee beans he had ever had were in San Francisco, and that he was going to send me some of them.

He was up to two cups per day, and he had never had coffee on a daily basis before this. He couldn’t help himself, as he truly loved the taste of these beans.

As a big fan of the drink myself, I decided that I was going that to try this coffee if there was any way that I could. This wouldn’t be too difficult, as he quickly offered to mail me some once he got home.

Lo and behold, a package arrived at my door a few days ago with a return address from San Francisco. He had sent me a large bag of these coffee beans, and they came from a company called the Blue Bottle company.

He had even gone out of his way to crush the beans. Since I go out to buy my coffee hot, I don’t have a coffee maker at home and had no other way to make this.

You’re probably wondering about the verdict. Is San Francisco’s Blue Bottle coffee as good as the hype it gets? Well, if you run an online search, you’ll see scores of people swearing up and down by this coffee.

I have to say that this was some great coffee. While I’m not sure that it’s the best I’ve ever had, it’s definitely up there. Anyone on the West Coast or anyone willing to mail order some coffee beans would do fine to try this company’s beans.

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I’ve always been a big fan of ice cream. For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a love for a nice cone of ice cream with a few sweet, dripping scoops. The toppings are just as enjoyable to me, and nothing beats a nice ice cream sundae or a banana split.

Besides the classics, there are also plenty of newer ice cream flavors that’d be pretty easy to miss if you weren’t getting it as often as I do. While I love the classics and they’ll never get old to me (chocolate is still my number one flavor when it comes down to it), there are some great newer flavors worth trying out.

I’ve had a number of different ice cream binges this year. It’s been a stressful one, and ice cream definitely helps out with that. I’ve spent a lot of my time trying out new flavors because I’ve read good things about them. Here are a few that really stand out to me.

The first one, and my favorite new one, is a brown sugar ice cream made by Haagen Dazs. This is an awesome flavor and it tastes so much like actual brown sugar that it’s scary.

Another can’t miss flavor is fleur de caramel, also from Haagen Dazs. The name is fancy, but I’ll break it down into more simple terms. It’s like a salty caramel. Imagine a pretzel dipped in caramel.

I hope they come out with more sweet and salty blends. It’s kind of like eating a chocolate covered pretzel, only that it’s caramel instead of chocolate. Whatever it is, I want more of it.

Another amazing ice cream flavor is the sticky toffee pudding at Haagen Dazs. It’s simply divine in my book and also tastes very much like real toffee.

The last one I’ll mention before you run out and get ice cream now is Oreo Outrageous. Baskin Robbins makes this flavor, and it’s truly one of my new favorites. Much better than cookies and cream in my book.

About Nicholas McMillan: While he’s definitely an ice cream lover, he also writes regularly about the Little Tikes country kitchen, and the Little Tikes Prep and Serve Kitchen.