Do You Know What Real Hot Chocolate Tastes Like?

Do you ever look at the ingredients in the foods you buy? Your shopping has become routine, and you absentmindedly reach for the same foods all of the time, that you have no idea what is in the food you feed your family on a daily basis. Real foods do not come with a label informing you of all of the additives, preservatives, fillers, artificial flavors and artificial colors. When you eat real foods, you know what you are getting; eggs are eggs, broccoli is broccoli, and apples are apples.

A very good argument could be made that real food is not real because of pesticides, hormones and genetic tampering, but you cannot control everything. Let’s Cook Tonight® teaches a common sense approach to cooking and eating. It makes sense to exercise choice over what you can completely control. You do not always have a choice about pesticides and hormones because of either price or availability, but you can exercise complete choice over manufactured and prepackaged foods.

If you buy hot chocolate mixes, look at the ingredients label; it makes for interesting reading if you have a chemistry dictionary handy. I am quite sure all of those ingredients have been tested to be safe, but are they necessary to ingest? Let’s Cook Tonight® believes that cooking is necessary if you want to get the most flavor and nutrition from your food. Made from scratch, hot chocolate has four ingredients: unsweetened baking chocolate, sugar, whole milk, pure vanilla extract. The flavor is rich and delicious and you get to decide how intense the chocolate flavor is and how sweet it tastes, not someone else. Is it more work than opening up a mix and adding hot water? Yes, you do need to melt the chocolate in the microwave, add the other ingredients, bring it to a boil and wash a pot, but Let’s Cook Tonight® believes that you and your family are worth it. Do you believe you are?

Cooking is easier than you think and you are worth the time and effort it takes.

Simple cooking idea: Never place your knives in the bottom of the sink. You may forget they are there and cut yourself when you reach into the soapy water.

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