Last summer, in an attempt to streamline my exercise programme, I bought a Pvolve system from Healf. This is endorsed by Jennifer Aniston – and who wouldn’t want her muscles? It’s a great system that involves you basically sweating a lot without stepping out of a big square mat and attaching various things to you: balls, weights, resistance bands. I love the restraint of it.
It’s much harder than it looks and I adore it. But that’s not what I’ve come here to tell you, it’s also about the bar of Hu almond butter-filled 70% dark chocolate with crisp quinoa that Healf threw in with my purchase.
If I tell you this wrapper has been on my desk ever since (the chocolate long gone), it tells you something about how much I loved it. I keep wanting to restock it, but also: so much chocolate already. There’s also a hazelnut butter version (I love me a nut butter) and both are delicious, £3.49 per bar or you can buy in bulk. The balance of everything was just right and it tasted both satisfying enough that you didn’t want to pig out on the whole bar, but tasty enough that you felt it was a treat.
Luckily, it is all too late to tell you about Heist’s spiced caramel bar that went into testing as the Christmas lights were going up and was declared criminally good by my testers. It’s gone now, until later this year, but I’ll remind you about it, if we’re all still here come the winter. You’ll thank me for it now, though, because there’s no way you could stop eating this bar once you’d started – and we must have some control so early in the year.
