Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate & Raspberry Bar Review

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I like trying different chocolate bars. Ghirardelli is one of my favorite brands, they have the best dark chocolate! (Specifically the Twilight Delight).
Me and my mom were shoppin' the other day and they were on sale so I picked two of them up, one being the Raspberry, I don't remember trying this one specifically.


Ingredients: Sugar, Unsweetened Chocolate, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Cocoa Butter, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Water, Milk Fat, Freeze Dried Raspberry Powder, Corn Syrup, Soy Lecithin Emulsifier, Fruit and Vegetable Juice for Color, Vanilla, Potassium Sorbate, Gelatin.


This specific  bar isn't my absolute favorite. One, being the HFCS in it, I didn't realize that when I bought it. Two, maybe it's the fact that the weather is warmer, but I think that there's more coco butter in this bar than there is in the other dark chocolate bars.
It does have the great bitter taste, it's just a little to butter-y for me and dark chocolate. That's a great thing about their 'pure' dark chocolate bars, when you get the Twilight Delight it doesn't melt so easily meaning it doesn't contain much cocoa butter, but the better part of the cocoa bean.

The one nice thing I liked about it was the seeds in the filling. When you buy chocolate bars that typically have fruit filling it tastes fake and artificial. I have yet to find a Ghirardelli bar with a fruit filling that tastes artificial.

The bar itself costs around $2.68 at our Giant Eagle which I believe is the same price as their straight chocolate bars. The straight chocolate ones are bigger though, both are 3.5oz. I always think you're getting more in the straight chocolate just because the bars look bigger.
The power of packaging! Lol.

Price wise, I give 5/10. I'm cheap, but at the same time I would much rather spend the money on these types of chocolate bars over Hershey's. I feel that Ghirardelli is better quality.
Taste wise 5/10, it's not my favorite flavor by the, it also isn't bad, either.
Over all, this bar was really good, and I would definitely recommend it to a friend. But I probably wouldn't purchase a full bar on it's own, maybe in one of those Squares Mix packs, but not on it's own.

GoodReads Reading Challenge Update!

Hola!

It's been a bit since I've done an update on my first post about this Reading Challenge, so I thought I'd give a quick update! I'm 4 books away from my goal! FOUR! Can you believe it? I've been lacking some on reading though, I keep pushing it off to the side xP
Come on self, pull yourself together!


The latest books read:

The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #7) - Lemony Snicket
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (Audibook)
The Hostile Hospital (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #8) - Lemony Snicket
Shiloh - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (Audiobook)
Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Peterson (Audiobook)
Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery (Audiobook)
The Alchemyst(The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, #1) - Michael Scott
The Carnivorous Carnival (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #10) - Lemony Snicket
The Anti-Prom - Abby McDonald
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things - Carolyn Mackler
The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #11) - Lemony Snicket
The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
Anything But Typical - Nora Raleigh Baskin
The Pride of Jared MacKade (The MacKade Brothers #2) - Nora Roberts



What're you reading good lately?? Leave a comment below!
Also, would you like a review on any of these?

Cadbury Milk Chocolate Creme Egg Review

I know, I know. I'm so weird.
This is the first time, that my mind can recall, ever having a creme egg.

I've been on this kick of trying new chocolate which is funny because now that I've had my roller-coaster-chocolate-craving thing my stomach churns a bit at the thought of more chocolate. So I'm sketching out chocolate for the most part during the weekdays and having it during the weekends to give me a chance to put those calories to good use towards fruits and veggies (or most likely fruit gummi's. Seriously, I'm obsessed).

 Ingredients: Semi-sweet chocolate (sugar; cocoa butter; chocolate; milk fat; natural and artificial flavor; soy lecithin; milk)


Everyone seems to be obsessed with these creme eggs so I decided on wanting to try them myself to see if they were as good as everyone says.

First, I want to point out, which this really frustrates me, Cadbury chocolate-sold in the US- isn't really 100% the good Cadbury chocolate that is sold everywhere outside of the US because Hershey's banned British chocolate from coming into the us; from my understanding, it's because it tastes better...? So... I need to go to London sometime I guess to sit at a lovely cafe with a cup of tea, and have some chocolate. Not that I'm complaining!

So, I ate this creme egg and my verdict is that it's pretty good. I love the Cadbury chocolate though, but now that I know it's by Hershey's it's put a bit of a damper on the whole eating it because I wanted it to be British chocolate, lol.

The chocolate itself is creamy and smooth, it also has a sweet smell to it. The fondant confused me a bit, but I've never had fondant before. It almost seemed like marshmallow, but then it was sugar, it's like a medium of the too. Like a thick goo but a little grainy. It was confusing but almost satisfying at the same time.

My mom had said she couldn't eat them because of the whole raw egg-like look to it so I was expecting the insides to be like a runny mess and it being this hard thing to mentally get past (yes I'm one of those people) and thankfully it wasn't.

I would eat these again, and I'm not just saying that because I had bought a 5 pack of this to try them (I didn't get them until the Easter candy was on sale, good thing they aren't bad tasting!). But they aren't my number one pick of the crop either.

My Love for Avengers

As a kid, I don't remember being very interested at all in anything superhero related. I can recall watching Spiderman and Batman movies, and seeing a lot of Hulk in stores, but that's all. And the closest I ever came to wanting Superhero related was those Hulk hands which was a very very brief, short time. Strawberry Shortcake, and Winx was much more my speed, Superhero's were just so overrated.
Now that tables have turned. I LOVE my Avengers! I prefer Marvel over DC Comics, although I still  very much enjoy DC Comics. If my room could be decked out in Avenger stuff, heck I'd do it!
I'm sure everyone knows about the Avengers coming out over this past week, my Dad and I went to the movies yesterday, it's been so long since I've gone to a movie theater and I had to go this one. I've been dropping hints to him about wanting to go see other past movies but it never happened (I don't think my hints were blunt enough.).

Let me start by saying this, I am a HUGE Loki fan. Love the man. Love Tom Hiddleston. And when I found out that he wasn't going to be in Age of Ultron I wasn't expecting it to be all that great. He is Loki after all. (I can't tell you how stressed out I was watching The Dark World.)

BUT NO! It was SO. STINKIN'. GOOD! James Spader, aka Red from Blacklist, plays/voices the new bad guy, Ultron. He's such a 'likeable' (likeable meaning perfect actor/perfect character/personality) bad guy. He's got some of the best lines. Not that you can completly compare the two, but if you've watched Blacklist and enjoy Red and know his personality, Ultron has some of the same characteristics and humor as Red and it just fits with the rest of the characters.

I've also discovered that I may have discovered my love for Iron Man/Stark. Robert Downey Jr. is such a great actor and person it makes it really hard not to find him a great character. Oh, an Captain? He's pretty cool too.
Also, I never expected Bruce to be an Opera kinda guy, either.

If you haven't seen the movie, and you're planning on going, just a word of advice. Make sure you stay till the end of the movie, meaning after the first set of credits. Or else you may or may not see a very important clip, and you may or may not have to expect for there to be another movie.
Again, a word of advice.

If you aren't planning on going to the movie theater for this, you can pre-order the dvd here.

GoodReads Book Challenge - 2015

Since last year I knew that I wanted to really crack down on my reading. So on New Year's I set up a new GoodReads challenge to read 52 book. My main goal for this year is to read more than I did last year. And I'm proud to say, as of right now, I am 6 books ahead.
Last year I read 28, right now I'm at 34! (65% of the way finished) Woohoo!

So far these are the books I've finished;

Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - J.K. Rowling (AudioBook)
Another Little Piece - Kate Karyus Quinn
The Ersatz Elevator(The Series of Unfortunate Events Book #6) - Lemony Snicket
Annexed - Sharon Dogar
Because of Winn Dixie - Kate DiCamillo
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
Along For The Ride - Sarah Dessen
Anatomy of a Misfit - Andrea Portes
The Return of Rafe MacKade - Nora Roberts
If You Ask Me: And Of Course You Won't - Betty White (AudioBook)
Tales from a Not-So-Talented Pop Star(Dork Diaries #3) - Rachel Renee Russell
The Austere Academy(The Series of Unfortunate Events Book #5) - Lemony Snicket
Acceleration - Graham McNamee
An Abundance of Katherines - John Green
Wicked Lovely - Melissa Marr
Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia Book #2) - C. S. Lewis 
Tales from a Not-So-Talented Party Girl(Dork Diaries #2) - Rachel Renee Russell
After Obsession - Carrie Jones
3:59 - Gretchen McNeil
Alice in Zombieland - Gena Showalter
Act of Will - A.J. Hartley
American Boy - Larry Watson
The Miserable Mill(The Series of Unfortunate Events Book #4) - Lemony Snicket
Accidental Love - Gary Soto
The Accidental Genius of Weasel High - Rick Detorie
Tales from a Not-So-Fabulous Life(Dork Diaries #1) - Rachel Renee Russell
Fruits Basket(Vol. 2) - Natsuki Takaya
The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group - Catherine Jinks
Fruits Basket(Vol. 1) - Natsuki Takaya
The Absolute Value of Mike - Katheryn Erskine
The 5th Wave - Rick Yancey
Through My Eyes - Tim Tebow
Dreamland - Sarah Dessen

Big Ole Catch Up

Hey! It's been a while, hasn't it? I just haven't been much in a blogging kind of mood, I'd gotten into making videos and now I'm back, not back back, but frequently posting... hopefully. Don't hold me to that!
The past few months have been busy with school... oh school... As for now, the load has lightened a bit. I can't wait for summer though. I'm hoping we go somewhere. Plans have been in the making and I just hope they get set in stone.
So I didn't totally forget about blogging. I took pictures here and there and I put a good bit of them in collages to kind of narrow it all down a bit.

 I died my hair black and blue. OH. MY. GOSH. I loved it! So much! Unfortunately the dye washed out and now my hair is blonde again. I've been thinking of getting it done permanently black and blue, but my wallet is already cringing at that idea. And I'll miss my blonde hair, I know I will. I love lightening it during the summer. We shall see.

 I think this was in March-ish... It was after Juno... I think. Lol. They were calling for 0 snow and then we got a storm. Mom told me the other day we were above our average this year, so. But this was at Chick-fil-a. I'd gotten a strawberry milkshake which is absolutely incredible! When I think of a milkshake, it's theirs. It tastes like the kind I imagine them drinking in like the 50's-Grease-diner esc style. And a fruit cup, because balance and all.

Target. Target is just a wonderful wonderful place that loves to suck my wallet dry, lol. I found a new swim suit. One that actually matches and I'm so excited to wear it.

So here's a mish-mosh starting from the top left.

• Chestnut. She's an adorable little trouble-maker. She's much smaller than we were expecting. We thought she'd be around the same size as Peaches(which is what the breeder had said) and she's more like a Jack Russell. I tell Mom she's a Jack Russell and not a Beagle. She's legit the most non-Beagle there is. She knows 5 different tricks, she'll fetch-and eats EVERYTHING. It's just so not Beagle-like. Peaches knew 2 tricks, she had no desire to learn more (trust me, I TRIED), pickiest eater on earth, and fetch wasn't even in the picture.

• It was a lovely below 0 A few times this month. I think it's been down to -5? Possibly. It's frigid.

• More dog treats. Chestnut seems to be enjoying the homemade dog treats really well. That makes me happy!

• Converse time! It's not so mucky outside now and it has become converse season until it's cool enough for sandals. Hurry Summer!!!

• DFTBA. Enough said. 

• Misty has been a lovely little chap. She sits and 'helps' me with my schoolwork. She must be thinking it through a lot, her eyes are always closed.

• Poor Cookie. She's 15 this year and starting to look it. She's spoiled us when it comes to cats and it's gonna be terrible when she leaves.

• I don't know what happened with this picture that it got to contrasted because that wasn't the way it was edited, but oh well. I've been getting back into my exercising and I love it. It feels great to be moving again. It'll be nice when it gets warmer out to actually get out and move and not be hibernating all the time. (I'm a pro hibernator btw.)

FOOD.
I love food.
I've been trying to balance? I guess, my meals a bit-just more healthy. Which has been really difficult. I love bread so much, I'm finding out that I need it to keep me sane. Sigh.

• Fruit is my favorite. Raspberries, blueberries, oranges, and bananas. I LOVE BANANAS. Dad gets me my own bundle and it's a lovely thing, really.

• Wal*Mart has really good GF chocolate chip cookies. I had cookies and (almond)milk for the first time in like 5 years probably. It was so good!

• I had my first Starbucks experience. Don't hate me, I think I like Panera better. I'd gotten a Strawberry Smoothie. Firstly...5? REALLY? It didn't really taste like anything either :/ It was really upsetting. I'm not giving up hope yet though. I really want to try a Frappe and the Cotton Candy Frappe.

•  Another thing has been egg scrambles. I hate eggs, unless their hard-boiled, or pickled. It's the whites, their too egg-y tasting, yuck. But Mom gave me some of her lunch meat and I made myself a scrambled egg(the first time I ever made a scrambled egg). And it was really good! I ended up having it quiet a few more times.

As of now, that tis all. I've got a few other ideas brainstorming for posts. So hopefully those'll be along here soon[:
Hope everyone is doing well!

Gluten Free Friday: Nature's Path Organic Gluten Free Brown Sugar Maple Oatmeal Review

I've cracked into another box of oatmeal. I like testing out different brands to see which one has the best. Is that silly? I just I've just been enjoying trying to try different foods lately.
With a half cup of hot water this oatmeal was really good. Not overly sweet at all, it tasted like oatmeal, not sugar. It was finer than what I typically like but it wasn't bad. I'll definitely be eating it again.





Ingredients:  Gluten free rolled oats, brown sugar, cane sugar, rolled amaranth, rolled quinoa, sorghum flour, natural flavor, sea salt.





























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