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Milky Way Simply Caramel: Simply Delicious

Carl — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:55:48 +0000

Chocolate. Yum. Caramel. Yum. Put them together. Yum! Gooey and delicious. I can’t think of a better afternoon treat.

Godiva Truffle Holiday Goodies

Carl — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:48:30 +0000

This Christmas Beautiful Girlfriend got something cool in her stocking. My father or some other elfish person slipped a box of truffles in there. Unfortunately BG does not eat sugary treats, so this may work out in my favor if I play my cards right. Maybe I can trade her my Ernie Kovacs DVDs for the truffles. After I watch them, of course.

What goodies did you get this year?

Star Wars Han Solo Carbonite Chocolate

Carl — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:04:36 +0000

The people at ThinkGeek have done it again, coming up with a great creative product just in time for the holidays. This is genius. Good job, folks!

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Taste the rich, chocolate bounty

Straight from Tatooine’s Tasty Treats

Looks like Han Solo trapped in carbonite

Made from delicious dark chocolate

Product Features

Gourmet Dark chocolate molded to look like Han Solo frozen in carbonite

Trust us, chocolate tastes much better than carbonite

Comes in a box suitable for gifting to your favorite Star Wars fan

Officially licensed Star Wars edible delight

Exclusive product designed and manufactured by ThinkGeek

Each bar is 4.5 oz of premium dark chocolate and measures 6 inches in length

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15% off Cyber Monday Sale at Blair Candy!

Carl — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:41:55 +0000

Go to Blair Candy and use the code Cyber15 to get 15% off your order today.

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Marshmallows: You are Doing it Right

Carl — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:19:10 +0000

When I was a kid my mother would never make sweet potatoes like this but sure enough Beautiful Girlfriend’s family does it right. What a great Thanksgiving. I hope you all had a good holiday with family and other loved ones.

Music Video with 288,000 Jelly Beans

Carl — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:15:52 +0000

Singer/songwriter Kina Grannis recently produced a music video for her song “In Your Arms,” which featured 288,000 jelly beans. Pretty cool stuff. The first part of the video reminded me of the opening of the movie Juno, but the rest of it made me remember Peter Gabriel’s video for ~~“Big Time”~~ “Sledge Hammer” with all the stop-motion animation. Kina Grannis and her producers did a great job with this and I applaud their successful use of candy. Very creative, and surely delicious as well.

Ritter Sport on Sale? Hellz Yeah!

Carl — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:31:16 +0000

I went to Target on my lunch break today and saw that Ritter Sport was on sale. Should I get some? Who wouldn’t want this? I also bought a birthday card and a box of wine, but I think the thing that takes the cake is this chocolate. Go out to Target and get some of this stuff!

Chocolate Refreshment in Flight

Carl — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:15:06 +0000

Thank you, Virgin America, for including a little chocolate square in Beautiful Girlfriend’s in-flight meal. Of course she gave it to me. That’s just how sweet she is. I am a lucky guy.

Only Tootsie Rolls Left

Carl — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:09:55 +0000

Earlier the post-Halloween candy bowl at work was brimming with goodies. Now it’s just the Tootsie Rolls that are left. It makes me wonder whether candy companies do market research by seeing what people eat and leave alone in offices.

Trick-or-treating dilemma: What to do with the Halloween candy?

Carl — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:51:24 +0000

This is a good article about how to manage candy consumption among children at Halloween time. It is a fun celebration and candy is a great part of the fun, but the young ones might need some help rationing it out.

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Trick-or-treating dilemma: What to do with the Halloween candy?

“You walk around and they get a giant bag of candy,” says the mother of four, who lives in St. Paul, Minn. “Then what do you do? Just let them have at it, or what?”

This question will be on the minds of millions of parents Monday night after their kids collect candy bars, lollipops, peanut butter cups and other goodies from well-meaning neighbors: The National Confectioners Assn. estimates that 93% of children younger than 13 will go door-to-door this Halloween, asking for treats.

Parents can start by making sure their little pirates and princesses don’t try to eat all of their loot right when they get home. The key, says Dr. Elizabeth Prout Parks, a nutrition specialist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, is to dole it out in limited quantities over the course of several days or weeks.

An appropriate amount is “not more than the size of the palm of their hand, which should not be more than about two or three pieces,” depending on the type of candy, she says. Too much candy in a short period of time can not only make kids feel sick to their stomach, it can cause blood sugar to spike, leading to a crash later on.

If parents are willing to count calories — which can be a challenging proposition, since nutrition information is usually printed on bags of Halloween-sized candy rather than on individual pieces — a reasonable target would be to give kids no more than 100 calories of sweets a day, Parks says. Ideally, those calories would be offset by cutbacks elsewhere: skipping the bag of chips at lunch, for instance, or the extra roll with dinner.

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