Xmas is comes every year. People rush to the mall to buy presents and candies for their families. I have question about the candies.

Which type of chocolate is healthy to eat? there are many types being sold in department stores everywhere. I am tempt to buy one of them.

I want to say that dark choclate is....but im not sure. I heard that dark is good for you but you might wanna check it out.

i never go for healthy chocolate i just eat it whenever i do and then i just work off my butt harder to get those extra calories out.
I like heath bars because they have a lower amount of calories in them and there one of the best candies ever.

You say that like you've never had chocolate. *a horrified and concerned look on my face*

ALL chocolate is healthy, in moderation. If you are talking about the antioxident count, dark chocolate, the darker the better. Everyone has dark chocolates these days, some of which is almost to the point of being baking chocolate.

The classic dark is the Hershy Special Dark. Ghirardelli has a dark out right now that makes your tounge tingle, it is about 60% cacoa. I think of all the readily availble chocolate lines, only Nestle doesn't have a dark.

You can get, if you are lucky, dark chocolate Toblerone, which if you've never had it, uses honey rather than cane sugar and adds hazlenuts. Anyone who turns there nose up at that one is either diabetic, dead or a pod person. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Yep, the darker the "healthier" <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
... but some people are not used to the rather intense taste of dark chocolates.

Does anyone know if there is a chocolate candy out there that is more resistant to melting (other than M&Ms) and stores well for emergency purposes? Just to put a preparedness aspect on this thread.... <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

On the "living well" aspect, I can personally vouch for the quality of Ghirardelli dark chocolate. I've also found a brand called Scharfen Berger that is really great for baking.

Though I'm not really a fan of putting lots of chemicals in "diet" food to make up for the ingredients they don't have, there are some low-sugar chocolates out there for diabetics that are actually pretty tasty.

i dont know about survival choclates,but i find it funny you mention ghiardelli(or however you spell it) and that im eating a little one.

also stay away from energy bars in survival kits,unless you need it, because they taste horrible, i have never found one that was good tasting.

Once upon a time, there was something called a "d-bar", or more formaly "Ration, type D, Chocolate". It was part of every life raft and K-ration in WWII. It was a very hard, vitamine enriched chocolate bar that had a reputation for an "interesting" aftertaste. It was also stabilized somehow to raise it's melt point; I know it had oat flour and extra powdered milk in it, maybe that helped the melting.

Nowadays, just use M&Ms. Melts in your mouth, not in your pack. Just store them in a water tight container so if they squish.... Me, I'm looking for something like a dark chocolate bar, mini-sized, with peanuts or puffed rice in it, coated in in a thicker version of the hard shell that they use on M&Ms

German combat rations (EPA) had a chocolate bar in them. It did not melt even when left in car in summer. That bar was one of the things that usually were left over. The taste was not really satisfying (just to be polite). Probably you don´t even need to lock it away from children. Most wont finish their first bar let alone try another one.

what about white chocolate? is it healthy? no one mention this type of chocolate at all. I ate dark chocolate before and it had bitter taste in my mouth. YUCK !!!