Godiva Chocolatier Gold Ballotin (19 pc.)
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Chocolate Godiva
Godiva chef talks the sweet stuff
Chocolate lovers are licking their lips over a special tasting event being held at FIU's Chaplin School of Hospitality this weekend. Godiva's executive chef, Thierry Muret, is flying in to show a select few how his favorite ingredient works in all |
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Discover boutique chocolates at Spagnvola Chocolate truffles tempt visitors from the display shelves at Spagnvola Chocolatiers in Gaithersburg. (Linda Davidson - The Washington Post) Hands off the Hershey bar. Get away from the Godiva. Leave the Lindt. |
Eat Chocolate! Not Just Because You Love It
Well, crack open that box of Godiva or saunter over to that adorable artisanal cafe that makes its own chocolate truffles and rich chocolate desserts and serves them with cappuccinos and espressos (supposed to decrease risk of depression) and indulge |
Gloss Find: Godiva's 2011 Halloween Chocolate Lollipops
Godiva has launched several new chocolate lollipops for Halloween: This includes a milk chocolate skull lollipop, milk chocolate bat lollipop, white chocolate ghost lollipops and a milk chocolate pumpkin lollipop!!! The chocolate lollipops cost $6 each |
When it comes to sweet things, I'll take caramel over chocolate any day. This is not to say I don't care for chocolate - I very much do. In fact, I cannot pass a See's Candy shop without a pop in. So how does this relate to personal finance? Myth and cost.
A saying that often get's bandied about as fact is "you get what you pay for." In other words, the steeper the price, the better the product. Of course it's true for some items, but all? Nope, and that's why I loathe hearing it. And a perfect example of just why that statement is flawed is a side-by-side taste test of See's and Godiva chocolates. In my humble opinion, the relatively inexpensive former is infinitely greater than the definitely pricey latter.

Jacque ( @jacquebona ), one of my clients, graciously sent me a box of delicious Godiva chocolate cookies from my Amazon wishlist! Nom, Nom, Nom.
Thanks Jacque!
These delicious treats consist of a dark, smooth pat of chocolate stamped with the Godiva logo carefully placed on top of a heart shaped butter cookies.
To bite into one of these cookies is like leaning back on the beach into your chair after a nice swim.
The chocolate is softer than a chocolate bar and the cookie part has a good crunch to it. You bit into the same amount of chocolate as cookie so that’s a nice balance.
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