Trying to do better with my eating habits Came across adding 1 tablespoon butter (grass fed) to my coffee with 2 tablespoons of coconut oil (the good kind). Decided to add chocolate to it and read that the cacao needs to be 70% or higher. Well there went the dove chocolate. Look at the labels. . .if it has more in it than chocolate . . .then forget it. I struck oil in one grocery store that had Lindt chocolates on sale for $.85 for a large bar. I went into a frenzy when I saw 90% cacao and 95% cacao. I bought all of them. The check out gal thought I was crazy. Dark chocolate is rare in the stores in my neck of the woods. Usually the higher cacao is left on the shelf unless there are organic health food types shopping there. OK. . .so now into the concoction goes the chocolate. . .4 squares. My next addition is Coco Monkey to tone down the bitterness of the chocolate. Is this TMI for you? Thought I would share. Oh! You must put it in a blender. Watch out and don’t blend it too long or the heat will build inside the blender and you could have a mess on your hands. I find that the butter has made the difference from when I originally made the coffee. . . .it can sit around and get cold without separation.. . . . .
Focus more on exercise and less on food. You already have good thoughts on which foods are beneficial. But you said nothing about exercise.
You add: butter + coconut oil + blended chocolate bars to your coffee? Not sure I follow the recipe, but if I lived where dark chocolate was rare, I’d MOVE. Life is too short.
Although read the labels closely because darker blends tend to be “dutch treated” , or alkalized, chocolate which manufactures out the cocoa butter and bitter taste but destroys up to 75 percent of the healthy nutrients in the process. At least that is my understanding of the Lindt method. I will be checking out 100% Ghiradelli in the future.