I'm sure everyone likes chocolate, I know I do but I purposely avoid it most of the time.
Despite so-called "scientific" reports suggesting chocolate is good for us, it is chock-full of calories and a challenge for some of us watching our calorific intake.
If you're one of those lucky people who can eat whatever you want, or young enough for the rot not to have set in, you'd be able to pig out here. There's certainly plenty of variety.
Although the Barossa Valley Chocolate Company is only a few kilometres from where I live, I've driven by numerous times but never visited. Today on my daily walk, I thought I'd walk in and take a look now that businesses are returning to normal.
The Chocolate Company has a wine-tasting centre that was closed and a restaurant that had the government proscribed maxima of attendees, so I couldn't buy the flat white coffee I'd intended to. Next time.
I took a few photographs of the nicely decorated and laid out areas inside. The different colour scheme for various types of chocolate is visually attractive as you can see from the photos.
There are also small packages for gifts set up to make the task easier eg, one gift has a mug filled with chocolate options.
I think a good strategy for buying chocolate would be to visit the cafe first and buy lunch. After lunch when you are no longer hungry, then go look at the chocolate.
That way, there's less of a chance you'll overdo the chocolate purchasing and blow your budget.
One of my favourite chocolate recipes - that includes peanut butter (I love both) I got from Chocolate Covered Katie (Doesn't the name say something?)
Robin
PS: What's your favourite chocolate? You don have one don't you?
