What's chocolate and healthy? Or low-calorie?

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  • EmilieJA
    EmilieJA Posts: 1
    My favorites:

    1. Better Oats Lavish Dark Chocolate Oatmeal (160 calories AND it's breakfast. Yum)
    2. Silk light chocolate (90 calories for a cup, excellent with cereal)
    3. Kind Plus peanut butter and dark chocolate bar - 200 calories I believe, can also be a breakfast meal.
    4. Luna - Chocolate chunk - This is my favorite flavor, caramel nut brownie is pretty good. Pretty much all Luna bars taste like candy bars but are only 180-190 calories and can make a light meal
  • BrittanyErica
    BrittanyErica Posts: 74 Member
    I really hate dark chocolate. My mom always recommends it. I know it's a healthy, good option though. An article said having a piece or two a day is actually good for you! I just... can't do it. Or maybe I just need my mouth to adjust to it like mustard.

    then you're not addicted to chocolate. you're addicted to sugar.
  • Amazonbella
    Amazonbella Posts: 338
    Skim-milk Jell-O Pudding cups are a good choice! :)
  • Ilysandrew11
    Ilysandrew11 Posts: 133 Member
    Jello makes a Mousse that is only 60 cal per cup :)
  • Ilysandrew11
    Ilysandrew11 Posts: 133 Member
    I also mix in some Ovaltine mix with my plain Oatmeal with a little bit of milk...its filling and only about 260 cal :)
  • supplemama
    supplemama Posts: 1,956 Member
    I really like Ghiradelli Milk Chocolate Caramel Squares. I have 2 a day, sometimes 3. They are only 60 calories each! You can buy them at Walgreens, Walmart, most grocery stores, etc. I usually buy a pack a week, it's not even $5.
  • Shadowknight137
    Shadowknight137 Posts: 1,243 Member
    Organics Green&Blacks is a fave of mine, and the Lindit Exellence (both at 85% dark).

    Any chocolate is fine though, I guess. Most chocolates have roughly (roughly) the same amount of cals as nuts in weight. You could even make your own chocolate bars with eggs, sweetener and cocoa powder - double points if you have protein powder; you can make some awesome chocolate muffins/brownies/bars.
  • jilliew
    jilliew Posts: 255 Member
    OMG I am SUCH a chocoholic. Like, I seriously need to go to meetings.

    Anyway, I love the 100 cal packs of stuff that include chocolate. The chocolate popcorn is suuuuper good, for one. Also, try making yourself a coffee with a spoon or two of hot chocolate mix (or a mocha, I guess. Haha). That or a glass of chocolate milk usually satisfies me.
  • rosieg1979
    rosieg1979 Posts: 99 Member
    Nakd bars. They are all yum, but they do a chocolate one, and a chocolate orange one. Oh and a mint chocolate one. The plain chocolate one is made from dates/cashews/raisins/cocoa and thats it. 35g/135kcal

    They really are awesome :-)
  • jenniferinfl
    jenniferinfl Posts: 456 Member
    I have hot cocoa almost everyday. I make mine by heating a cup of skim milk, adding 2 teaspoons of cocoa and 1 teaspoon of sugar. Get some protein from the skim milk and it doesn't add that many calories.
  • like_milk
    like_milk Posts: 79 Member
    Oh God, I'm a chocolate addict so I understand. You just need to show self control and it's easy to fit in a chocolate fix every day.

    I know you said you don't like dark chocolate but it's worth learning to like it. Why? Milk chocolate is just so much more addictive than dark and it's easier to eat large amounts of it. It contains more sugar which only makes the cravings worse. (I'm not being scientific here, just my own experience)

    Go for a 70% or lower cocoa chocolate which contains other flavourings you might like such as orange, mint, almonds, or anything to help take some of that bitterness away. Once you get into dark chocolate you will love it, but it's not as easy to eat a whole bar as it is with milk chocolate.

    I banned chocolate from my house to help with my cravings. Well, all chocolate except some very expensive dark chocolate I keep in the fridge (so it takes longer to melt). It means I quite literally cannot afford to eat it all and I have to make it last!

    I LOVE Green & Blacks! Maya Gold is a lower cocoa 'dark' chocolate (55%) with flavouring (orange and spices) which could be a good place to start.
  • MaggieSporleder
    MaggieSporleder Posts: 428 Member
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    Break it into smaller pieces for lower calories


    Yep what they said ^^
    Or any other REALLY good Chocolate
    Just a little piece will usually knock a craving off.
  • FitFabFlirty92
    FitFabFlirty92 Posts: 384 Member
    Dark chocolate. But really dark, not the Hershey's kind that's still loaded with sugar. Your grocery store should have some that are a little bit darker -- meaning less milk and sugar. They're not too expensive and they give you a bigger, thicker bar. :)
  • alpine1994
    alpine1994 Posts: 1,915 Member
    Just work some into your day!
    I love the special K chocolate crisps.. I usually have a pack and 1 tbsp of peanut butter.. dip the crisp in the PB.. SO good

    I LOVE these
  • sharonpink
    sharonpink Posts: 76 Member
    Try the Skinney Cow line of chocolate bars. Small but satisfying.
  • margojr4
    margojr4 Posts: 259 Member
    We buy dark chocolate chips and mix them into a jar of unsalted peanuts. A capful is roughly 1oz of nut and chocolate. Not so low calorie I guess, but pretty healthy. My favorite ever day snack :)
  • jesspi68
    jesspi68 Posts: 292
    Nature Valley Protien Chewy Bar - Peanut Butter Dark Chocolate, 1 bar

    Has 190 calories and 10 grams of protien.

    these are tasty. I also like the Kashi Dark Mocha Almond Bars

    I just made this last night and it was suprisingly really tasty.... http://vegan-magic.blogspot.com/2012/09/chocolate-mousse-no-added-sugar.html?m=1
  • aagan0214
    aagan0214 Posts: 1
    I have been wondering the same thing for the past 2 weeks.... now I know :)
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    Hot Chocolate can help with the cravings and won't blow your calories out of the water. We have an Options White Chocolate mix here in the UK that is 37 cals a serving I think. They do lots of other flavours as well.

    Chocolate Milk is a good post-workout drink :)
  • sneakyjean
    sneakyjean Posts: 15 Member
    Basically, I'm addicted to chocolate.
    Addicted!
    So, what's something that is chocolate and tastes delicious but it healthy or just low-calorie?

    All I can think of is expensive things.
    Like, chocolate protein shakes. I mean, I will buy a jar of it soon but in the meantime, what's an alternative ?

    I found these and they do the trick, especially as a lte-night OMG I NEED CHOCOLATE fix... :)

    http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=14904285&findingMethod=rr

    It's a sweet dark chocolate, and the crunch makes it satisfying, at least for me.
  • losinglbslovinglife
    losinglbslovinglife Posts: 76 Member
    dark chocolate is supposed to be good for u
  • Amy_Lynn74
    Amy_Lynn74 Posts: 134 Member
    I like the Fiber One brownie bars, only 90 calories plus fiber!
  • NorthwestPA
    NorthwestPA Posts: 63 Member
    Chocolate coated Almonds. I believe made by Diamond. So yummy. Just a thin coating of cocoa powder w/sugar on almonds. It's really good! And very few additional calories from plain almonds. Totally worth the purchase!

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    These things taste awesome, almost exactly like Coco Puffs.

    I love Emerald Cocoa Roast Almonds!
  • jonesin_am
    jonesin_am Posts: 404 Member
    Nutella!! Not exactly chocolate but has some protein. My go-to snack is a banana with Nutella! Yumo!
  • Vailara
    Vailara Posts: 2,464 Member
    Green and Black's chocolate with sea salt. Just a square or two is really satisfying. I also like Galazy Bubble hot chocolate at the moment. I wouldn't say either of these are particularly healthy, but they are relatively low calorie.
  • nellbell79
    nellbell79 Posts: 1 Member
    I eat one Lacey's Cookies Dark Chocolate Almond ($3.79 per 8oz container at Trader Joes) almost every day. There are 120 calories in each cookie.
  • JezzD1
    JezzD1 Posts: 431
    I really hate dark chocolate. My mom always recommends it. I know it's a healthy, good option though. An article said having a piece or two a day is actually good for you! I just... can't do it. Or maybe I just need my mouth to adjust to it like mustard.
    :noway: You DON"T like dark chocolate!!?!??!?!?
    lol I used to not like it either but since I stopped eating junkie food and sweets my taste buds have grown to love it. now regular chocolate is nasty to me ;-) :happy:
  • Firefox7275
    Firefox7275 Posts: 2,040 Member
    Cocoa is not high fat bars have added fat.

    Actually plain cocoa powder is ~22% fat but only 0.5% sugar.

    There is as much added sugar as added fat in your average milk chocolate bar. For example Cadbury Dairy Milk (the most popular here in the UK) contains 57% sugars but 'only' 30% fat, the former being from the milk and sugar itself
    "Milk** , Sugar , Cocoa Butter , Cocoa Mass , Vegetable Fat , Emulsifiers (E442, E476) , Flavourings , Cocoa, Sugar: trade in compliance with Fairtrade Standards , **The equivalent of 426ml of Fresh Liquid Milk in every 227g of Milk Chocolate , Milk Solids 20% minimum, actual 23% , Cocoa Solids 20% minimum"
  • fattybumclaire
    fattybumclaire Posts: 91 Member
    If you live near an Aldi, their Moser Roth chocolate comes in a bar divided into 5 little 25g portions and they have 70% and 85% dark choc with all manner of scrummy flavours like mint, orange and almond etc. Helps with portion control as they are individually wrapped. :)
  • NocturnalGirl
    NocturnalGirl Posts: 1,762
    If you control your portions, you can make it "low cal".

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