Chocolate As a Food Group

Ok, let me start by saying, I have not been a fan of blogging. That is, until a friend opened my eyes to a world of amazing blogging. I of course, do not have those talents, but I do have alot of nights when I just can't sleep so it's either this or bake chocolate cakes all night. Lead in to the real subject, chocolate is a food group.

I've been on this kick to detoxify my body for about 4 maybe 5 months now. I cut out the sugars, got rid of the coffee, do a cleansing once a week where I just drink kephir and water all day. For the most part, it's all going pretty well. Well, that is except for my need for chocolate. The funny thing about this is, that I really was not a big fan of chocolate until recently. Now I can't say there is a direct correlation to my new love and my elimination of some sinful behaviors (though maybe I just gave up some and replaced them with another). Nonetheless, I have a new friend in chocolate. Of course I have found supporting evidence to say there are good antioxidents in chocolate, and that euphoric feeling you can only get from chocolate and love so why not embrace it right? I'm staying true to my quest for detoxification though... I don't use sugar, I stay clear of flour...but did you know you can make the most amazing cake with just eggs and yes CHOCOLATE. I have perfected it I do believe. My daughters like to joke now, "Mom, it's Tuesday and I don't see a cake in the fridge, did we run out of eggs?" Don't get me wrong, if I'm in a pinch, it's not beneath me to eat a sugar free chocolate pudding, or cocoa and cream cheese, or chocolate cream soda, I could go on but you get the picture.
So, since I have this new love, this new addiction if you will; I needed to find justification to support this new need of mine. So here is my rationale:

It is a vegetable. Well, it comes from a bean doesn't it? So bean, vegetable, duhhh. If you think about it, it's really a health food too. All those great anti-oxidents and all. Not to mention it is the perfect breakfast food. I mean, my chocolate cake for example, is made with eggs, 10 to be exact, so if you think about it in portion, it really has very little value in relation to all those eggs. We have all been eating eggs for breakfast since the chicken. Or was it the egg, I mean chicken, egg. chicken... Oh wait, that's another story, we can cover that one another time.
If you want to take it one step further, we create holidays just to celebrate it. You can't tell me that Valentine's Day really isn't just a cover to over indulge in chocoloate delight or Sinterklaas Eve events.

What?

You don't know about Sinterklaas parties? Well, if you are dutch, or you grew up in the in a traditional german dutch family, you would might know a little something about this season created to celebrate St. Nicholas. The very last surprise of the Sinterklaas event, is to give each person a chocolate initial, the first inital of their name. Most of the time you find it in your shoe or boot the last morning of the season. That event alone should sway you to agree with me that chocolate truly does have amazing powers. That someone was so enamored with this food group, that they would put it in a stinky smelly boot just to see if people would still eat it. Didn't work when they tried it with broccoli.

So there you have it, Chocolate is a food group. I've convinced you haven't I? Let's celebrate, how about a piece of cake, or some chocolate milk? Almost breakfast time, we could make some chocolate chip pancakes. : )