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Yes I have bought these. I know the price is insane but I always ration the chocolate as best I can. I like them, but it depends on how long you have been off of actual sugar as I'm sure they are not the same.
What helps with rationing in my experience is to make chocolate chunk cookies or something, where you chop up the chocolate and add nuts and use a chocolate chip cookie recipe in which you substitute stevia (substitute 1 stevia packet for 1 TBSP sugar -- so 1/4 cup sugar equals 4 stevia packets, 1 cup sugar equals 16 packets, etc). It has been awhile since I was well enough to attempt this but it's definitely good stuff.
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They sell stevia packets at Whole Foods and other natural food chains. But the only place I have seen stevia chocolate is at that link above : )
It's not that hard to bake other items with stevia if you like to bake -- you can substitute one stevia packet for 1 TBSP of sugar in most recipes (not so good in ice cream freezers though as it freezes too fast and hard, but I found you can add the stevia when the ice cream is almost frozen and it works.
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Sounds like a winner and worth every penny!!!!
We all could use something amazingly indulgent like this don't you think?
I live on Stevia. It makes plain yogurt taste pretty good, herbal teas etc... Its not bad mixed w/ cinnamon on a slice of toasted Ezekial bread (okay this is a bit of a stretch...).
Enjoy!!!
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grandmother - stevia is also sold on vitacost (I have found that stuff is usually cheaper on vitacost than in health food stores)
here is the link to packets but if you search vitacost also sells other forms of stevia.
quote:Originally posted by grandmother: [QB] I haven't been able to find stevia.
Is it THAT expensive?
Go to any health food store. Our regular grocery store has stevia products in the health food section. I've seen stevia in some stores right next to the sugar and artificial sweeteners.
Stevia is not that expensive. What was posted was a very expensive bar of chocolate, sweetened with stevia. Wish I could afford it!!
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It's so easy to make stevia chocolate with a few specialty ingredients: For dark chocolate: -unsweetened baking chocolate. Ghirardelli makes a really good one. Others will work fine. Ghirardelli may be at natural foods stores or gourmet types of places, or many supermarkets -stevia. I like the liquid brand 'nustevia' which comes in a squirt bottle. There are many others. I don't like the NOW brand that is based in glycerine, like a glycerine tincture.
For milk chocolate: you'll probably need to be able to keep it in the fridge. Use the same ingredients and experiment with adding either milk powder (yech) or tiny amounts of cream. You can also use coconut milk (this is what I do) or other non-dairy 'milks' like rice milk or soymilk.
Melt the baking chocolate- either in a double boiler, or a microwave oven, 20 seconds microwaving and some stirring in between if using the microwave. Add the stevia to taste. Cool in some kind of plastic wrap so that you can get it out of the container later. That's it.
For milk chocolate: melt the unsweetened chocolate, add some stevia and a splash of the 'milk' to the chocolate. You could also add various kinds of fats instead- coconut oil is what I sometimes use. I'm obviously unafraid of fat.
Another variation: You can also use almond butter or other nut butters (cashew is very good, and naturally 'sweet') and stir some into the melted chocolate. It makes it more like the nut-chocolate filling in some filled chocolates.
you only need to keep the stuff in the fridge if you added milk or nondairy milk or coconut milk. I think commercially they use milk powder, which is why you don't need to keep 'purchased' milk chocolate refrigerated.
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OMG, I just clicked the link.
$32 for one pound of chocolate??????
Ouch. Unsweetened baking chocolate is $3/bar (probably also a pound) and stevia is under $6/box for the powdered kind that comes in packets, which will sweeten hundreds of servings of various things. It can be more like $10 for the liquid version.
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stevia (2 packets) edit: and sometimes add a few drops of liquid Stevia Clear to taste - depends on the type of chocolate;
with 100% unsweetened Callebaut chocolate (favorite) or
whatever I can find like an unsweetened bar of Giradelli.
Can't recall the # of ounces right now, sorry.
Just the standard large bars from the supermarket.
To make chocolate chips :
place wax paper over cookie sheet (tape to bottom);
Pour melted chocolate out spreading as evenly as you can;
place in refrigerator for 1/2 hour;
Take out and place hardened chocolate in ziplock bag (break into couple large pcs to accomplish this);
Zip the bag shut and take a meat tenderizer or other implement and bang away, breaking the chocolate down into small pieces.
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