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[frustratedearthmother]

Absolutely - for health benefits!

 

[baymule]

Y'all would have to mention chocolate! My downfall!

 

[Hinotori]

So we usually get high cocoa percentage. I don't know what they use as filler in cheap milk chocolates but it tickles my throat and makes me cough.

 

[flowerbug]

It takes a lot of self-control to keep the chocolate in your mouth long enough to melt, lol. Around here it's open mouth, insert chocolate, bite once and down the hatch, lol!

i do actually melt it in my mouth to savor it as long as i can, but for some things like chocolate covered raisins and almonds it is very hard not to munch on them.

my best friend of many years used to eat an ice-cream cone in less than a minute. i would melt every little bit of it before swallowing. funny how different people can be.

 

[flowerbug]

Y'all would have to mention chocolate! My downfall!

the good stuff! i can resist the cheap stuff now. it just doesn't taste very good when it has all the odd additives.

when making chocolates i was always reading labels and figuring out what was up with all the gunk they were adding. palm kernel oil, nope, that's not chocolate, it tastes way too waxy/slimy to me.

i used to love a Babe Ruth candy bar or a Snickers, but now when i try them they taste primarily sweet and not of chocolate or the other ingredients. we make our own candies as much as possible or eat chunks of candy bars that are decent chocolate. they've not yet figured out how to ruin Payday yet, but give 'em time. my snack of choice these days is lightly salted peanuts - i have to not buy them or i eat too many. my morning fix of peanut butter with my banana has to tide me over.

the mass produced box chocolates taste too often like cardboard or the plastic containers for me to enjoy. Mom likes Russell Stover, we get them on sale for the holidays so she can have them for her birthday and for Valentines Day (her favorite holiday ).

 

[flowerbug]

Absolutely - for health benefits!

mental health benefit for sure!

 

[flowerbug]

So we usually get high cocoa percentage. I don't know what they use as filler in cheap milk chocolates but it tickles my throat and makes me cough.

could be a number of things. life is too short to eat cheap chocolate. i'd rather eat less of a good quality chocolate than mass quantities of the cheaper kinds. i can't really even eat the cheap stuff any more as i don't enjoy it. only so many calories can go in so i have to make them count.

for many years my motto has been "Life is too short, eat dessert first!" now with eating less sugar in my diet this isn't as easy to do but i think i will survive the challenge...

 

[Hinotori]

We've been dry the last couple days. It's almost a miracle. It's the first time since November Ive had to fill the water for the large fowl chickens. Usually I just alternately clean their bowls which fill with rainwater.

 

[Hinotori]

Snap goes the trap and I had to look up what the heck it was. I knew it wasn't a rat as it was eating catfood at the bowl and leaving crumbs. It was a keen's mouse. Something I hadn't seen before.

That's a good sign that we got the rats as is all the mole hills in the yard. I saw a vole the other day as well. Those pests go for chicken food as well but are so slow and stupid I can catch them by hand. Or just a plastic net around the pen.

Another space for my Native Rodent Bingo. I've had

Townsend moles
Townsend voles
Shrew moles
Shrews (didn't figure out species)
Pacific jumping mice
Beavers (I want those tree killers dead)
And now the Keen's mouse.

 

[Lazy Gardener]

Northwestern deer mouse - Wikipedia

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