Big bars of chocolate

[JoRobyn]

I remember when I was a child, big bars of chocolate were a birthday or Christmas treat. Now they're so easy and cheap to come by, I can easily eat one in one go. Anyone else, or am I a disgusting pig?! (Just had dairy milk with Dime.....would recommend!)

Bars have gotten smaller and the ingredients have changed in the last 30 years, however no I still wouldn't eat one by myself in one sitting.

One square a day is enough!

I still only buy them as a treat for birthdays and Christmas, I've never been able to just eat one or two squares and then put it back so I remove temptation from my own path 😂

I only really eat chocolate when I'm premenstrual. But I could easily eat a whole bar during that time.

You are not alone. But then I'd also eat a whole pizza to myself and can polish off a tub of Ben and jerrys in one go.

Oh here we go 😂😂😂

You’ll get loads of people on here saying they only sniff the wrapper every six months and that does them as they fill up on 3 tomato slices. However, you are correct, I can easily do one in a single sitting.

Get ready for the comments from people proclaiming their shock/disgust/horror that anyone can manage more than one square of dark chocolate a week or are "full up" on a quarter slice of pizza....

Well, that didn’t take long… 🤦‍♀️

Did you spell "bar" wrong?

Does anyone else sweat when they eat too much chocolate?

@GalileoHumpkins

of a high quality if chocolate. Maybe.

Dairy milk 😂😂😂😂

I agree, they are so cheap and not really a treat. I can eat one big bar in one go but it’s not something I do very often as I know it’s not good for me!! Plus so few chocolate bars are tasty these days 😭

Oh I couldn't possibly mange an entire square - I use a cheese grater so I can split one over a fortnight

They were much bigger years ago.

As a family we'd have a strip each and do that a few times, you couldn't do that now.

yes, I'm not proud of it, but I can eat a sharing bar by myself

One of the only upsides of the the cost of living crisis for me is that it is reducing my astronomical consumption of cheap shit chocolate (e.g. Dairy Milk in all its variations).

I flatly refuse to pay more than £1 per 100g for this shite. Addictive though it is. You used to be able to get the medium sized ones (approx 100g) for £1, which was a no-brainer when the 'individual' size bars (around 40g) were 80p+. And the 'sharing' size bars (used to be around 200g) were never more than £2. Now you can't get the medium ones for less than £1.50 most places, and the larger ones (which have all shrunk to 180g or less) are rarely less than £2.50. I won't do it!!

Instead I'll save my pennies and wait until I can get to the good chocolatier in town, and buy a big bag of gorgeous little hot-chocolate beads that are 70+% cocoa and eat them by the handful :P

And yes, I acknowledge, way too much of my mental energy has been utilised on this matter :P

I greatly admire your self restraint.

@JauntyJinty your response made me giggle quite a lot

I could quite easily eat a family sized bar of chocolate in one go. In fact I have many a time! But the metabolism was better in my teens and early twenties and when I was in a much more active job so it didn't matter so much

Now pushing 30 with 2 kids the weight doesn't shift the same so I avoid buying them so I don't eat the lot in one go. Zero willpower over here

I think @GalileoHumpkins may be joking.

No, I’d feel sick if I ate a whole bar in one go. Especially of Dairy Milk or Galaxy since they’ve been ruined.

A few bits of Tony’s thought - could do that. But again, not a whole bar and I probably only buy chocolate once or twice a year. I’m not a massive fan and donate chocolate gifts to the food bank.

Yes I can eat a ‘sharing bar’ easily in one sitting by myself, ditto a Domino’s pizza.

I couldn’t eat a whole Ben and Jerry ice cream tub though, find those 10x more filling and sickly.

Can easily demolish one! But agree when o was younger they were a treat but I think that’s more to do with my parents and how they made sure it was a treat! About to have my first baby so need to review my eating habits so baby doesn’t think it’s normal!

No, it’s not.

Just the one sharing bar you say?

I agree but isn't it because we were kids so our parents didn't buy them for us? I wouldn't let my son eat a whole big bar or a big bag of buttons in one go but I do!🤷‍♀️😂