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low carb chocolate bar
ray wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:33:37 -0800, Ellen K. wrote:
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>> I have really been craving chocolate and was feeling like I could
>> loosen up a little bit and try a low-carb chocolate bar. Yesterday
>> at Trader Joe's I bought a Simply Lite sugar free Dark Chocolate
>> bar. To me it tastes like the real thing, unlike the Camille Bloch
>> one I bought last week at my local grocery store, and it was also
>> much more economical ($1.99 vs $4.49).
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>> Ingredients are Maltitol, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Inulin (natural
>> vegetable fiber), Soy Lecithin, Natural Vanilla, Cinnamon.
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>> A bar is 100 gm, 6 rows of 2 squares. The label says the serving
>> size is 25 gm, and reports that one serving contains 100 calories, 70
>> calories from fat, total fat 8 g, sat fat 5 g, trans fat 0 g,
>> cholesterol 0 mg, sodium 0 mg, total carb 15 g, dietary fiber 3 g,
>> sugars 0, maltitol 11 g, protein 1 g. The only non-zero-percent
>> nutrient is listed as Iron at 8%.
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>> I will definitely buy this again. 
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> Try Baker's semi-sweet - in the baking section.
Baker's is crap. There are many better choices, even in the supermarket.
Ghirardelli and Lindt, for example.
Not that any of the above are technically "low carb."
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