Tag Archives: reeses cups

Peanut Butter Chocolate Cups

PBCupsOne612sb

In my overweight days, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups were a food that I would eat until I was sick or finished the whole packet whichever was first. Oh dear!

There was something about the combination of Peanut Butter and Chocolate that just had me obsessed. It was the flavour I used to pick at Baskin Robbins ice-cream place too, when I used to eat that; however, one little scoop of all that richness and I already felt sick, so I didn’t need to eat lots of it – Ha ha.

Luckily though I worked out that the key problem causing all of my out-of-control eating was not understanding sugar. Once you pair it with nutrients, you can still enjoy all the chocolatey, buttery goodness and stop at one or two. Hooray for continuing to learn about food & the body.

Continue reading

Peanut butter chocolate slice

snickers1

It’s no secret that I am a fan of Chocolate and Peanut Butter together and in the past I would easily eat packets of Reese’s Peanut Butter cups until I was sick. Ah such is the lure of junk food. I’m so glad those days are over.

So in it’s place I created a healthy version that allows me to have a normal relationship with this type of food. I still love them to bits and enjoy eating them but because they are nutrient rich, I eat one or two and my body signals scream at me “that’s enough” and I can’t eat any more. A far cry from the past binge eating days.

So most of my weekly batches of Homemade Chocolate are the kind where I make a batch of Peanut Butter balls as well and combine them together. So much rich chocolately goodness, and on the satisfaction scale – 150%!!

Continue reading