Halfway through June and who needs a pick-me-up if you have school-age children? Or even if you don’t. I am so over school runs, although when they go I miss the structure and routine.
I have been eating Willie’s cocoa-dusted, chocolate-covered nuts. Hazelnuts in 66% dark chocolate, and 44% milk chocolate-coated almonds, £13.75/200g each. Both delicious. The sort of thing which is hard to stop eating once you’ve opened the jar. Also, if your child’s school is not nut-averse, these make great lunchbox fillers if you’re not short on pennies.
I cope with life’s stresses by binge-watching TV series. Recent hits have been The Diplomat, Maryland and Inside Man (the latter: wild). And eating, this week, Solkiki National Hemp Service Pineapple 64% dark milk (but not milk as it’s vegan) with 240mg of CBD, £11/56g. I am undecided about whether CBD makes the slightest impact in food (although I love a Trip drink, as I don’t drink alcohol), but I can say that, after eating a hunk of this, I fell into a very satisfying afternoon nap and when I awoke everything seemed brighter and hours later I was so calm it felt as if I’d been tranquilised. But in a good way. It also contains olive oil which, to my mind at least, elevates this to a health food. (Solkiki claims this is the world’s strongest CBD chocolate mg per gram.) Not for you, kids.
Finally, a gorgeous little dark bar, Cárdenas 72% with cacao nibs, £6.95/50g. I do love a cacao nib in chocolate, not only for the texture but the extra crunch, too.
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