Eat better chocolate (less often)

So I’ve banished all the bad chocolate from my house. I brought it to work where I have a stock of good chocolate in case I get the urge.

Yay for good cruelty-free, high cocoa content chocolate!

But last Thursday I bought a bag of Twix minis for my office desk. I was fine with them there for two whole days – I hide them behind a bunch of folders (from myself – they’re in plain sight of the people who come to see me), but yesterday and today I caved.

I did only have one each day and that’s considerably less chocolate than I was eating before I started this goal, but I need to get thee to a Green & Black’s bar, stat. I don’t eat the crap if I’ve got the good stuff on hand.

Life’s too short to spend money and calories on chocolate that’s anything less than blissfully good.

Chocolate used to be special. It used to be an indulgence. When it was first brought to Europe, it was pure luxury. Cocoa beans had been used as currancy, for crissakes. Try wrapping your head around that – the frivolity of ingesting your currancy!?

These days people like myself eat it everyday. It might as well be one of the major food groups as far as I’m concerned. And that’s not right. I’m obviously not eating it the way it’s supposed to be eaten. It should be savored. It should be experienced. Something has to change: Better chocolate less often.