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Best Chocolate

Mistreatedbycs — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 19:42:51 GMT

I've been ordering for years from Long Grove Confectionary

and have been very happy with their chocolate.

They have these pecan myrtles that are about 2 per pound, they are huge and oh so delicious. I also buy the English Toffee which is also truly delicious.

Where do you buy from? I like the real chocolate treats and not those fancy shiny colored boxed one's.

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skatting44 — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 21:12:03 GMT

Bissingers

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patbz — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 00:47:29 GMT

The best ever were Gifford Chocolates and ice cream, originally in Silver Spring MD. I still miss them and can taste them in my memory.

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suzyQ3 — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 16:56:26 GMT

Hand's down...See's.

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shoptilyadropagain — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 17:55:01 GMT

DeBrands out of Fort Wayne, Indiana

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Love orchids — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 20:22:24 GMT

@patbz I grew up in northern Va. in the 50's and 60's and we went to the Giffords in Arlington frequently. Did they go out of business? They had the best Swiss chocolate sauce and I have thought about it frequently over the last 50 yrs.

Living in Ca. now and I enjoy Ghirardelli, Godiva and See's chocolate the best.

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patbz — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 20:40:37 GMT

@Love orchids : They closed 20-25 years ago. I understand that at original store in Silver Spring people were outside crying.

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Love orchids — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 02:30:00 GMT

@patbz I can believe it. All good things must come to an end, unfortunately.

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ScrapHappy — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 14:06:29 GMT

Gardner's Candy is very good.

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HerRoyaLioness — Tue, 29 Jun 2021 18:18:27 GMT

I have long thought the chocolate here in US has tasted waxy, even the so called "good" stuff. Then my DD and family went back-packing through Europe and brought me back some chocolates from Belgium. Wow, was it delicious!! So creamy and flavorful. Nothing here compares to it that I have tried, except maybe for a very old local candy store that seems to have kept it's quality throughout the years in Oshkosh WI, Hughes, but I believe they are now closed temporarily.

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Elom — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:17:20 GMT

I recently tried a german small chocolate bar from Aldis. It was very good Milk Chocolate. I soon will try the dark chocolate.

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Sooner — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:21:59 GMT

There is no "best" chocolate. There's not good chocolate, good, and wonderful. And that varies from person to person and time to time.

It's like trying to think of the best peach you ever had.

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Susan Louise — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:27:20 GMT

Lily's...

The only brand of chocolate we buy now. No sugar and relatively low carbs. Once a month DH and I split a candy bar and I will use the baking chips once in awhile for desserts. Sometimes DH adds them to his home-made coffee ice cream...Yum!

We get the candy bar variety pack & baking chips through Amazon.

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LIndaMJ — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 17:56:37 GMT

My favorite has been swiss chocolate from Boehm's out of Issaquah, Washington.

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BornToShop — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 18:02:21 GMT

I have discovered Alter Eco Chocolate Truffles, wow! They are organic, gluten free, & non-GMO. They are also made with pure organic coconut oil. These are my guilt-free treat every afternoon!

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MOMMAVik — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 21:23:32 GMT

I have found some very tasty chocolate bars at Aldi's. We really like the milk chocolate with raisins & I believe hazelnuts.

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Susan Louise — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 21:32:16 GMT

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JeanLouiseFinch — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 11:15:08 GMT

@Susan Louise wrote:
Lily's...
The only brand of chocolate we buy now. No sugar and relatively low carbs. Once a month DH and I split a candy bar and I will use the baking chips once in awhile for desserts. Sometimes DH adds them to his home-made coffee ice cream...Yum!

We get the candy bar variety pack & baking chips through Amazon.

@Susan Louise I buy these candy bars too, for occasional use only. I have several in the cabinet, I rarely think about them. I keep an assortment of chocolate chips on hand so every so often I might take a few. I've also made my own mini peanut butter cup. Walmart is usually a good resource. Sometimes I buy the Bake Believe brand. They're pretty good too, but only come in dark, semi-sweet, and milk.

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Susan Louise — Sat, 10 Jul 2021 18:23:11 GMT

@JeanLouiseFinch wrote:
@Susan Louise wrote:
Lily's...
The only brand of chocolate we buy now. No sugar and relatively low carbs. Once a month DH and I split a candy bar and I will use the baking chips once in awhile for desserts. Sometimes DH adds them to his home-made coffee ice cream...Yum!

We get the candy bar variety pack & baking chips through Amazon.
@Susan Louise I buy these candy bars too, for occasional use only. I have several in the cabinet, I rarely think about them. I keep an assortment of chocolate chips on hand so every so often I might take a few. I've also made my own mini peanut butter cup. Walmart is usually a good resource. Sometimes I buy the Bake Believe brand. They're pretty good too, but only come in dark, semi-sweet, and milk.

@JeanLouiseFinch DH and I will split a candy bar once a month. I usually do a 2-week menu plan at a time and will add it in on a day that fits our macros. So we'll either have the chocolate at the beginning of the month or toward the end.

As for the chips, and he likes to add chips to his home-made coffee ice cream and occassionally I'll sprinkle a few on top of our keto strawberry waffles w/home-made keto whipped cream for an extra treat. Last week I melted some chips and made a few dozen chocolate covered strawberries and put them in the freezer. We'll each have 2 or 3 berries for dessert once in awhile.

Using a couple of KetoConnect's recipes, DH had made some great biscotti and added chips. I have made KC's Chocolate Chip cookies and added crushed pecans or walnuts.

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@JeanLouiseFinch Just an FYI

*Edited several of my typing errors. At the time when I was writing this post I was multi tasking...or trying to :/