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Have you ever tip-toed up to a box of chocolates feeling guilty anticipation at the prospect of beholding orderly rows of delicious delicacies? Upon raising the lid, you discover crumpled wrappers containing half eaten caramels, mauled milk chocolates, and partially nibbled nougats – sampled and rejected – leaving these bitten beauties unfit for another’s consumption. How...

The picture that we're using for our profile was taken in April 2006 in Paris, outside an ice cream/crepe stand. I ate crepes every single day I was in the City of Light -- butter and sugar, fruit, chocolate, nutella ... and the list goes on. The ice cream and gelato were fabulous, too. And the pain au chocolate. What are your favorite foods to eat in Paris? Leave a comment below and...

I'm recalling Valentine's Day. It seems like Valentine's Day was only yesterday. It seems like only yesterday. There were special displays for chocolate just for Valentine's Day at the department stores. In my family, my daughter got up early and made several boxes of chocolate with my wife. Handmade chocolates are usually preferred by the receiver, because it is a sign that the...

I'm nearly at the halfway point by this morning, and by yesterday afternoon I was about ready to kill for a bag of M&Ms. With a week to go before my daughter's wedding, it's finally crunch time to try to lose that dress size I've been planning to lose since the engagement was announced last Christmas. And for me, dieting and weight loss has always been an "all or nothing" event. So for the...

I don’t remember where I first came across the idea of replacing shortening in brownies with puréed black beans. Applesauce or vanilla yogurt had been my go-to replacements in the past. But the idea of using black beans in place of shortening intrigued me, and I couldn’t wait to see what the outcome would be. Searching through my cupboard, I found a chocolate truffle mix....

Bandit made a "squirrel run" yesterday morning. That's what I call it when I look out the kitchen window at the bird feeder on the back porch railing, notice a familiar, very fat grey visitor with a luxurious tail dipping into my eight-dollars-a-five-pound-bag of hulled sunflower seeds, and whisper the magic words to my dog: "Hey Bandit, there's a squirrel!!" The squirrel's not a dumb fellow,...

My hubby Bill and I have been turned on to Flax seed and flax seed oil. There are all kinds of great cereals, chips and trail mix bars out there. After my husband's bout with cancer last year we changed our eating habits 160 degrees. I know our eating habits probably didn't cause his cancer, but we needed a change. And change we did. I quit drinking sodas, eating chocolate, pizza, sweets and...

Hello everyone,Just wanted to post this in hopes of stopping what happened here at my house today to anyone else.We broke down and got another dog after we lost our Bruno a few months ago. Cute Beagle Lab a year old.Very active and hyper. It's like having a two year old in the house again.We love him to death. We almost lost him today due to our stupidity.He got under the Christmas tree and ate a...