Saturday, September 06, 2008

A Chocoholic Family's Snack Confessions

Parent Bloggers Network and Brothers-All-Natural are doing a blog blast this weekend on snack confessions. They want it all out there in the open. Every unhealthy snack we've given in on and let our children have. Every once in a while, it's time to come clean, open up the pantry, and let out the dirty secrets. It's therapeutic... and at least I'll feel better about myself when I read the other entries!

Let me start out by saying that I don't serve unhealthy snacks all the time. My two youngest are actually big fruit eaters and I can always get everybody to drink some Danimals yogurts or eat some string cheese. There are times when nothing but chocolate will do, and I totally understand as I have those times myself.

#1 Chocolate Snack: Nutella. We'll all sit around the table with spoons and go to town on a jar of nutella. Sometimes we slather it on Nilla wafers or toast. Sometimes we just eat it with a spoon. It gets ugly when we're fighting for the last few spoonfuls but at least it's made with skim milk!

#2 Chocolate Snack: Trader Joe's Milk Chocolate Covered Pretzels - these are quite simply the perfect combination of salty and sweet. First you get the sweet, velvety chocolate then you get the slightly salty pretzel.... heaven.

#3 S'Mores: Jack likes them cold, Bella and Juliette like them melted - but we all love S'Mores. There's just something about that combo of Hershey's chocolate, Graham crackers and marshmallows that really hits the spot.

#4 Dunkin' Donuts - That box was full this morning. Enough said.




This post was written for Parent Bloggers Network as an entry for a contest sponsored by Brothers-All-Natural.

4 comments:

Dawn said...

I feel a late night snack coming on after seeing this! THANKS! LOL

I hope you win the contest.

Karen said...

Oh man. . .we ALWAYS have Nutella around here. We're also major chocoholics. You ever check out chocosphere.com?? Deadly. If you want something that tops Nutella? Get a hold of the Venchi Giandjuia spread. Oh dear.

This is random, but my husband and I went out for dinner last night and had THE best warm chocolate cake we've ever had (and we've had a lot of them). We were rendered speechless.

Anonymous said...

Oh geez, I LOVE chocolate-covered pretzels. One time for Christmas, I got a giant tin of covered pretzels -- dark chocolate, white chocolate, and peanut butter -- sort of like people get those tins of popcorn. It was the BEST Christmas gift that year!

Maria's Space said...

You guys eat the way I want to eat. Yummy.

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