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Even though we’re dietitians, when it comes to indulgences like dark chocolate, we find it impossible to resist. Last month at the Manic Mommies Escape in Napa, CA, we had the pleasure of sampling a variety of premium chocolates, compliments of DOVE CHOCOLATE DISCOVERIES (they sell decadent chocolates in people’s homes much like Pampered Chef sells fun kitchen tools).
Admittedly, we ate a few more chocolates than we should have. The scene reminded us of the hilarious I Love Lucy episode where Lucy and Ethel work in a chocolate factory and can only keep up with the speedy conveyor belt by eating most of the chocolates! Okay, so maybe we’re exaggerating just a bit.
For this month’s giveaway, one lucky blog reader will receive a fabulous Delicious Indulgence Bundle from our new friends at DOVE. The giveaway, valued at $50.00, includes 24 sea-salted caramels and an assortment of dark chocolate-covered fruit.
To Enter our Delicious Indulgence Bundle Giveaway, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post
telling us about your favorite holiday indulgence and/or why you want to win this giveaway. Whether it’s eggnog, pecan pie, or fruit cake, we can’t wait to hear your culinary confessions!We Will Enter You into the Giveaway Multiple Times if you do any or all of the following (just be sure to leave us a new comment every time you do one of these things):
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Our giveaway ends on Monday, December 7th at noon. As always, we’ll use Random.org to choose the winner. Good luck!
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My favorite holiday sweet is a bit non traditional but it’s somewhat cultural. My mother has always made, what’s translates to “soaked fruits” around the holidays. The traditional recipe uses a combination of mixed nuts and various dry fruits, such as apricots and dates. These are all soaked in a very light simple syrup and some spices if desired. These soak for anywhere between 24-72 hours. The flavor and texture in unbeatable!
The cheap chocolate from chocolate Advent Calendars. But I’m sure I would prefer these Dove chocolates!
My holiday indulgence is melting Dove chocolate and dipping Ruffles potatoes chips in the chocolate. Let set, and ENJOY!
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My favorite holiday indulgence is definitely appetizers–you know, baked brie, good cheeses, breads, etc…
I recently tried the Dove Chocolates and love them! Now, I have a little every day. Hope I win
Love the website, podcast and newsletter! My favorite holiday indulgence is my girlfriend’s homemade toffee. She’s always sure to make me some and it’s the BEST!
My favorite holiday indulgence is the liqueur truffles I make with my sisters each year. Rolling the truffles by hand is messy work, but it is fun to eat the ones that don’t come out quite good enough.
My daughters and I love making homemade chocolate caramels! We wrap them indiviually and give them to friends! Can’t wait to make them in a couple of weeks! Yum!!
My favorite indulgences during the holidays are two fold. I LOVE Dove chocolate. I can’t stop eating during the holiday season! I also LOVE making all sorts of cookies with my girls. It is a tradition that my mom started, and I keep it alive every year. The house smells AMAZING all month long.
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My favorite indulgence is all the Christmas cookies I want!
My favorite indulgence is my mom’s Heath Bar Dessert that she makes for me every year around my birthday time. My birthday falls around Thanksgiving each year and this year I got the Heath Bar Dessert as my birthday cake! Thanks mom!!!!
One of my favorite indulgences is a simple, but decadent appetizer: fresh dates filled a small amount of pate ( preferably a mousse pate laced with truffles) then sprinkled with course salt & chopped parsley! Yum!
I have a couple favorite indulgences. One is something my mom makes. She is the most incredible pie maker and makes a truly scrumptuous eggnog pie. I like to make baskets of baked goodies at Christmas as gifts. Another of my indulgences is a double dipped chocolate cherry. It is a marachino cherry wrapped in chocolate fondant, and then dipped in white chocolate…so decadent and delicious…definitely a once a year treat!
One of the things I make every year that is an indulgence is chocolate covered pretzels. Milk chocolate ones and white chocolate. I would love to win the Dove chocolates so I can indulge just a little bit more.
Chocolate rum balls. I love Dove dark chocolate; I have a square everyday with my morning coffee- yum!
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Christmas cookies! I’m going to host my first neighborhood cookie exchange with a few other moms on our block. Should be a blast to induldge in all the yumminess together.
My favorite holiday indulgence if you want to call it call it that, is just being able to “catch up” with everyone I haven’t seen all year long over a sweet treat at a family gathering! Nothing is better than being surrounded by your family for the holiday season!
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Mmmm. Boiled custard (do ya’ll have that up North? It’s kind of like eggnog) with pecan pie tarts!
I not only Tweet about these “Mom’s” I use one better world of mouth. Anytime I take a dish or treat to a party or someone’s house I have the recipe in tow to share with everyone as they are all amazed at how wonderful it tastes and how healthy it is for you, too. Good Luck to everyone and Happy Holidays!
I’d love to see lots of ways to use spinach hidden in food. It is great in chocolate cakes but I need other ideas.
My favorite holiday indulgence is chex muddy buddies, rocky road fudge and cherry dessert. I would like to win this because I enjoy eating chocolate…it taste soooo yummy. : )
I love eggnog! I usually drink it half and half with milk so that helps some! I also love Hot Buttered Rum! mmmm, I want some now! But I only have those things a few times in Dec so I guess it’s ok!
I love baked goods during the holiday!
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My favorite holiday indulgence is lefsa, warm right off of the grill with melted butter, not margarine, and white sugar!
my favorite holiday indulgence is red velvet cake.
I also love any chocolate and caramel combination! So I can’t think of anything I would rather win!
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My holiday indulgence is eating “Holiday Eggs” the morning of christmas! It’s Eggs, Sausage, Bread, and Cheese! The best!
We make homemade ravioli and pasta each holiday. At Christmas, we make several kinds of cookies and my favorite is the chocolate mousse cake!
Hello again, Please enter me into the Chocolate giveaway. Sounds great. My indulgence is pumpkin pie smothered with whip cream. YUMMY! By the way, I received my Cabot cheese I won a few months ago and, boy, was that delicious. My whole family loved all the cheeses and we just used the last of it last week. It lasted a LONG time. Very good. Thank you so much. I hope I can win something else real soon. Thanks again, Cathy
Spiced pecans…I LOVE sugary, cinnamony spiced pecans. It is so hard to stop eating them!
I am a subscriber! And, I loved testing the veggie burger recipe for the cookbook. That was such a hit! Hmmm….I think I’ll add that to this week’s menu!
I cannot resist baking–and EATING large amounts of–those peanut butter cookies with a Hershey Kiss on top! It’s a joyous challenge to form the “perfect bite,” with just the right amount of chocolate and cookie, each time. Hey, with the peanut butter, it includes a good amount of protein mixed with the sugar! And if I use dark chocolate kisses, there’s some antioxidants too . . . what nutrition! A-hem . . .
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The very night of the chocolate extravaganza.
I must say, that this time of year, my favorite indulgence is pumpkin pie, for breakfast. Nothing says good breakfast like a vegetable with some greek yogurt!
my favourite indulgence isn’t a food one. It’s the ‘permission’ to not do housework for a couple of days and just spend time with my family
Enstrom’s Toffee is my favorite Holiday Treat, Enstrom’s is made in Grand Junction, Colorado and is amazing.
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My favorite indulgence would have to be either cheesecake or tasty chocolates like Dove. What a great giveaway!
I just learned of your website from Today’s Dietian & signed up for the newsletter btw. I’m very excited about it all! Thanks for sharing!
My favorite at Christmas is Santa Surprize. My mom still makes sure to have it for me and I am 50! Basically anything chocolate. Do love Dove….that’s for sure! Would be awesome to win. I have been doing a new nutrition plan and have lost 33 pounds. I ate on Thanksgiving and I plan on eating at Christmas. Would be neat to have and share.
Blessings to all!
My grandmother makes nut horns but only for Christmas. I wait all year just to have them and you’ll find me by the tray stuffing a storage container full of them to take home and snack on later. I think I gain 5lbs each Christmas due to nut horn indulgence.
My favorite indulgence is any kind of Christmas candy! A friend was telling me about all her planned baking for the next few weeks, and it got me so excited to bake goodies and share them!
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Although I love anything sweet, including chocolate, my favorite holiday indulgence is my mother’s homemade southern-style chicken and dumplings. We only have them once or twice a year…something we all look forward to every year at this time.
It’s a holiday tradition in our household to make sugar cookies with powdered sugar glaze frosting. We always make at least three batches, and often give plates of them away to friends and other family members. Nothing says holidays to me more than those cookies. They are so good, I sneak them for breakfast. Yikes! How bad is that?
Its only chocolate for me. I can go without the cakes and cookies but a piece of chocolate!!! oh my that to me is the best
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My favorite holiday indulgence is Peeps! I love the originals but also the new flavors they come out with too.
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my mother makes this shrimp dip that is really rich with cream of shrimp soup and cream cheese, so good! we only have it at christmas.
My favorite holiday indulgences are chocolate covered cherries. I love the $.99 box as well as the more expensive ones. My very favorite chocolate covered cherries are the homemade ones that Mom used to make. She would make them and then store them so that the inside would get good and juicy. Delicious! I am a chocoholic and would LOVE to win this prize! I might even share with my husband – a piece or two!!
Pumpkin Pie with real whipped cream. Actually, pumpkin anything!! Bread, cookies, muffins, soup….mmmmm.
I love to indulge in the appetizers/finger foods and pecan pie!!
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My favorite indulgence is when my co-worker brings to the office all the candy her family made for the holidays…the home-made seafoam is awesome!
My favorite indulgence is peppermint bark…made with white chocolate and peppermint candies…yum!!
I love making huge batches of Chex Mix during the holidays. The homemade stuff is so much better than the store-bought.
My favorite holiday indulgence(s) is/are most definitely the Christmas cookies my family makes. It’s been a family tradition for many years, but this year, since I’m in Virginia Beach, and my grandmother and aunts are in Pennsylvania, I’ll be making any of the cookies that I want to indulge in myself.
My favorite holiday indulgence is taking time off from work to just hang out with my girls….and eat lots of chocolate
I can’t resist cookies, all kinds of cookies! Each one we make has a family tradition behind it and carries memories of past family gatherings and loved ones. A classic that even you Makeover Mom’s wouldn’t be able to alter is Mrs. Bearhope’s Scots’ Shortbread. It’s just butter, superfine sugar, and flour and needs to be made a few weeks in advance (oops that’s now!). Mrs. B. was very specific about her ‘breads. No decorations except fork pricks, and only simple geometric shapes. Incredible!
PS. I’d love the Dove chocolate give-away. The Dove dark chocs of any type are silky and satisfying. Plus, I’m choosing to believe in the health benefits of chocolate–just in moderation!
Every year, at the holidays, my husband makes the most fabulous Italian pasteries. My absolute favorite is the sfogliatelle! Yum! Now, to have some Dove chocolate to go along with it….
I LOVE all the cookies, bars, and candies my mom bakes for the whole month of December!! She makes it really hard to limit myself or the kids!!
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My favorite Christmas treat is candle cane cookies (sugar cookies with peppermint and candle cane sprinkles.) They are heavenly…
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My favorite holiday treat is my mom’s home made caramels. Soft and chewy, and addicting. Thank goodness she only makes a small amount for me.
Hand painting Hanukkah cookies! Traditionally we just use icing sugar, colored all different shades, but my family has come to expect me to whip out a bowl of melted chocolate to “paint” with, too!
My favorite indulgence during the holidays is my Great Great Grandmother’s anise cut out cookies. It’s just not Christmas until either my Mom or I make the cookies! We just baked them together with my kids over the Thanksgiving weekend. Now to frost and sugar them and life will be good!!
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My favorite holiday indulgence is pumpkin pie, with whipped cream. I love it! I love chocolate and would love these!
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I just love chocolate and especially truffles in the holiday season. I also love my mom’s baking, all of it!
My favorite indulgence is Christmas Morning Guinness Stout Gingerbread from Sunset Magazine a few years back: http://www.sunset.com/food-wine/holidays-occasions/gingerbread-favorites-00400000018207/. 1.5 cups of butter plus beer and molasses and DELICIOUS!
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I love eggnog at this time of year. I would like to win the chocolates because it is great comfort food and I need comfort food right now.
Ooh, I must say ANYTHING chocolate is my favorite indulgence during the Christmas season! And my mother-in-law makes killer cheese straws, from a secret family recipe!
I LOVE chocolate cheesecake! My mom or my aunt makes one just for me at all major get togethers.
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I’ll tweet about it later AND if I have not already, I’ll become a facebook fan!!! I LOVE chocolate and the salted carameks sound devine!
I love all sweets. My husband makes great chocolate chip cookies and my kids I like making chocolate winter bark as gifts for the teachers.
I’m a middle-aged woman, & don’t know the first thing about “blogging.” Is this where you enter your comments for the Dove candy contest? I make these caramels every year for Christmas for my family & to send to soldiers in Iraq (best recipe in the world—can’t buy caramels that are even half as good as mine; never get hard). Glad to post recipe, if someone wants. I would really like to win the Dove Chocolates for Christmas. Thanks—Susan
I look forward all year to my grandmothers recipe for sugar cookies. My kids and I love to decorate with colored sugar and they dont last a day! I love Dove chocolates and would love to try some new kinds of chocolate treats I have never had before.
Hey, Susan, it would be great if you could post the recipe for your caramels. They sound delicious! And, yes, posting to the blog does enter you into our giveaway. Good luck everyone! We love reading about all the holiday indulgences. Eggnog is Janice’s favorite over the holidays (sometimes with a little rum or brandy)!
I look forward to making my grandmom’s sugar cookies every year. They have butter and whipping cream in the dough so we can only justify eating them once per year
The best sugar cookies ever–my aunt’s recipe. We make several batches and bring them to work to share. . .but make sure to keep some for ourselves!
Also, egg bake and french toast bake which I prepare the night before and bake Christmas morning to eat while opening gifts.
My favorite holiday indulgence is baking (and eating) Christmas Cookies with my kids. Also Homemade Lemon Meringue Pie.
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My favorite holiday indulgence? Lindt chocolate… yummmmmm. Dove comes a close second
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My fave holiday indulgence is real, old-fashioned homemade Chex Mix made with butter and packed with all the good stuff like Fritos, Cheez-its and peanuts, along with the Chex cereal.
It’s that Holiday beverage -eggnog -the one treat that you can usually only get at one time during the year. I don’t mind the low fat -so that’s a treat. And I know no one else in the house will drink it -it will be there for me…yum.
My favorite holiday indulgence is the nutbread I make from a recipe my great-grandmother brought with her when she came to the US from Italy. It’s a sweet yeast roll filled with a walnut filling. It takes all day to bake the 12 – 14 rolls, but it wouldn’t be Christmas for my family without it.
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My favorite holiday indulgence is hot chocolate. I buy premium hot chocolate mix and made as directed. I then add 1-2 T. of half and half and stir with a Bob’s Peppermint Stick. Top with real whipped cream. To die for!
Here is my recipe for CARAMELS that someone requested yesterday:
NOTE: NOT healthy, but come on, it’s Christmas;-)
Two & 1/2 cups white sugar
3/4 cup white corn syrup
1/8 tsp. cream of tartar
Two & 1/2 cups whipping cream (1 pint whipping cream & 1/2 cup milk)
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup butter (can use margarine, but I wouldn’t recommend it)
Combine all but vanilla & butter in heavy kettle on SLOW heat, stirring constantly; boil until hard-ball stage. Remove from heat & add vanilla & butter & mix well. Pour into buttered cookie sheet & cool. Cut into long strips & then cut in pieces & wrap in wax paper.
NOTE: It’s slow-going to get it to the hard-ball stage, & it’s also time-consuming cutting all those pieces of wax paper & twisting each end afterwards, but it is WELL worth the effort! This candy would also make excellent stocking stuffers!
My favorite holiday indulgence is time with family. I know you can’t eat it but it’s even better than food!
My holiday indulgence is cookies-all shaped and flavors.
We love peppermint bark, and look forward to it every holiday season!
Eggnog! On its own, in my latte, in recipes. Love it!
My holiday indulgence are chocolate truffles. I make some really good ones and I love to have them to opo into my mouth.
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One of my favorite holiday treats is the Baked Pineapple dish my mother always makes for Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners. I think it has a LOT of sugar and butter in it. Maybe it needs a makeover by Liz and Janice, but it really is delicious and only eaten one or two times each year.
Of course my next favorite indulgence is chocolate so of course I would like to be in the running for the Dove Chocolate treats. Thanks for the great podcast!
I’d like to win for the simple fact that I love chocolate. I no longer celebrate this holiday, but my favorite treat only available around this time of year is chocolate dipped candy canes!!!
THanks for the opportunity to try new products! Love the podcast!!
Hmmmmm….favorite holiday indulgences….my husband and I go out to lunch on Christmas Eve while the rest of the world is shopping mania. We go into the restaurant where no one else is! We have a nice quiet lunch preparing for the True Meaning of the Christmas holiday, the birth of Christ. We also enjoy other goodies too, like homemade Christollen bread (cinnamon raisen or cranberry orange), and my husband likes mincemeat pie. Homemade date pinwheel cookies and shortbread are other favorites. The chocolate caramel salted candies sounds so yum yum…can’t beat salty sweet!
I just became an e-newsletter subscriber…so I’ll share another favorite holiday indulgence…my husband and I get up on Christmas morning and go for a run with friends and then come home and eat the Christollen I talked about and have that with fresh cranberry bread and read the Christmas story from Luke chapter 2…
My favorite holiday treat is probably pumpkin bars with cream cheese icing. We LOVE Dove chocolates at our house, and winning this would be an awesome surprise for my husband (as well as me and the kids!).
I’m a devoted podcast listener! I love cooking healthy for my family, and they usually love to eat it. I eat dark chocolate regularly to boost my health with antioxidants. And chocolate and fruit are a fabulous combo.
For the holidays, I LOVE white chocolate peppermint bark!
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Chocolate is not an indulgence, it is a daily requirement! Deep dark chocolate, that is.
Walnut bars are our Holiday tradition. Baked in a tart pan, cut into thin wedges, each one decorated with chocolate and a whole nut. The whole round is wrapped in cellophane and tied with a bow. I make 30-40 per year.
Peppermint bark!
my favorite indulgence? chocolate of course! It is one of the food groups isn’t it?!?!
My favorite indulgence is a very thin peanut butter ribbon candy that is only available for a few short weeks each year.
My favorite holiday indulgence, besides chocolate, is eggnog
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My favorite Christmas indulgence are Ham Balls made by my mother-in-law. Bad name, good food!
My favorite holiday food is Ham Balls. Bad name, good food!
Holiday Indulgence: cookies, chocolate, homemade eggnog, rum balls, none of this fattening of course!!! Hey, it’s once a year!!! Please let me win….actually, my most favorite is chocolate covered cherries that my co-worker Louise and I would buy from the vending machine – she called them cherry humps!!!!!
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My favorite hoiday indulgance is when my husbnd is making his special fudge recipe. We all clamor to lick the bowl, the beaters, then pan a ndanything else the fudge has dripped on. We all love chocolate in this house