Chocolove

I recently had to come to the painful realization that I have a degree of milk allergy. While I am not a milk drinker by any means, the hardest part is admitting to myself that the milk byproducts that I have come to love so much - ice cream, cheese, chocolate - all have to be severely limited. It's not too serious of an allergy, really, but for the sake of my heartburn I really need to cut out the big diet offenders - cream cheese and ice cream.

I've also been working on eliminating foods from my diet that have processed grains and fake sugars, which takes a lot of foods out of my life as well. While these are all good things diet wise, I really end up missing one of my favorite guilty pleasures- chocolate. I am a big fan of chocolate, but unfortunately most brands contain milk products and some even have HFCS, which means that they are off limits.

This is why I am so happy to have found possibly one of the best chocolate brands out there: Chocolove. While their Milk chocolate (33%) does have milk in it, all of their chocolate from 55% and up does not, showing the quality of the cocoa that they use, as a lot of companies add milk in order to cover up the poor quality of the cocoa beans that they use. Their dark chocolate goes from 55% - 77%, and for a 77% bar to still taste rich and sweet is perhaps the biggest sign of their quality.


Chocolove is sold in Target of all places, along with Whole Foods and World Market stores. For their quality they have an amazing price, and I'm determined to stock up next time I visit the store so I don't feel tempted to buy lesser quality products. And I saved the best thing about this chocolate for last- on the wrapper of every chocolate bar, there is a love poem. I think we all need a little love in our day to day lives, and why not make that love Chocolove??