In most grocery stores? Hershey Special Dark. The big bars.
There's better tasting out there, and even better for feeding the monkey on my back, but for basic medicinal use on a budget, Hershey Special Dark does the job. (The Ghirardelli Dark that anniemal gives me satisfies the cravings with a smaller quantity as well as tasting better most of the time (if I've been eating Ghiradelli, once in a while I still want Hershey just for a change), so it's probably better for me calorie-wise. Putting cocoa powder into vegetarian gel-caps didn't work as well as I thought it would; apparently the fat and sugar are involved, not just addiction to theobromine, so I don't get away with a really low-cal/low-budget solution. Oh well.)
If I completely run out of chocolate in the house, the next time the craving hits I wind up eating everything else in the house (some part of my brain keeps hoping the other foods will turn into chocolate in stomach or something, but it never does), blowing my grocery budget and just plain eating too much. It's much safer to make certain I've always got chocolate in the house.
Then there are the chocolates that get reserved for special treats, to be enjoyed specifically as cuisine, not to be taken as a drug. I don't encounter those very often.
I'm sure you've mentioned it before, but I've forgotten. What effect does chocolate have on you, other than satisfying your chocolate craving and need to devour all food-like substances in your house?
I'll keep those types of chocolate in mind for the next time I visit. &:) What kind of chocolates are reserved for special treats? Do they have the same effect on you as the medicinal chocolates?
I think it might provide a very small amount of pain relief as well, but that might be in my imagination (in response to hearing a few other fibromyalgia sufferers mention a similar effect). And sometimes when I'm feeling a little agitated, eating a significant amount of chocolate seems to settle me a bit (this is different from the cravings).
If I eat a lot of chocolate, it's been known to incite me to write strange short fiction.
Special treat chocolate is ... Lindt, some stuff I never remember the names of, basically chocolates more {potent, rich, complex-tasting, smooth} than Hershey/Nestle/Dove.
As far as I can tell, the medicinal properties are related to how much chocolate is in the chocolates, and the more enjoyable ones also tend to be more potent in that regard.
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What kind of chocolate is the right kind?
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There's better tasting out there, and even better for feeding the monkey on my back, but for basic medicinal use on a budget, Hershey Special Dark does the job. (The Ghirardelli Dark that
If I completely run out of chocolate in the house, the next time the craving hits I wind up eating everything else in the house (some part of my brain keeps hoping the other foods will turn into chocolate in stomach or something, but it never does), blowing my grocery budget and just plain eating too much. It's much safer to make certain I've always got chocolate in the house.
Then there are the chocolates that get reserved for special treats, to be enjoyed specifically as cuisine, not to be taken as a drug. I don't encounter those very often.
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I'll keep those types of chocolate in mind for the next time I visit. &:) What kind of chocolates are reserved for special treats? Do they have the same effect on you as the medicinal chocolates?
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If I eat a lot of chocolate, it's been known to incite me to write strange short fiction.
Special treat chocolate is ... Lindt, some stuff I never remember the names of, basically chocolates more {potent, rich, complex-tasting, smooth} than Hershey/Nestle/Dove.
As far as I can tell, the medicinal properties are related to how much chocolate is in the chocolates, and the more enjoyable ones also tend to be more potent in that regard.