Monday, February 2, 2009

Chocolate, not just for V-Day

Some times you just need chocolate. Unfortunately, if you are dairy free your chocolate selections are pretty limited.

Your cheapest route would be to chow a handful of FMV (Kroger) brand chocolate chips. Add a few sunflower seeds or almonds and you have a sweet, salty, chocolaty snack. You could even get fancy and melt them down, pour them on a waxed paper, sprinkle with almonds and refrigerate and pretend you are eating a Hershey's bar.

I use FMV in my chocolate chip cookie recipe and they work pretty well.

Tropical Source also makes a vegan chip, and while it is much tastier it is also 4 times the price.

If you think FMV chips taste oddly fibrous and want something smoother a big jump up in quality and still available at Krogers (vs. a health food store) would be Endangered Species Chocolate's Dark Chocolate and Blueberries bar. The blueberries add a bit of sweetness that dark chocolate lacks.

Overall, I still really miss a good milk chocolate. Dark just doesn't do it for me. If anyone has a good replacement email me!!! Or email my husband and tell him to buy me some for Valentines Day. :-P

2 comments:

  1. We really like Enjoy Life's chocolate chips.

    http://www.enjoylifefoods.com/our_foods/chocolate_chips/semisweet_chocolate_chips.html

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  2. Here's the Tropical Source candy bar that helped me survive dairy free. http://www.veganessentials.com/catalog/tropical-source-chocolate-bars.htm My favorite is the rice crisp one on top in the picture. Yes, this is what my husband gave me for Valenine's Day at least once!

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