For some reason, college has rekindled my affection for Glico Pocky snacks. You remember the Limited Edition Meets Wine Pizza Flavored Pretz in my Care Package? That was a disappointment. Pretz always leaves that MSG after taste in my mouth anyway.

This time, I got Ultra Slim 極細 Pocky. I liked it a lot. It’s a much lighter chocolate snack than regular chocolate Pocky, which for me gets too heavy and sweet after about 5 sticks. I still haven’t had the Green Teat Mousse Pocky, which really irritates me because my sister has had it. The Mango Mousse one is pretty good.

I finally picked up a bar of Valrhona when I went to Trader Joe’s when my aunt came down from Cupertino. I chose the Le Noir Extra Amer 85% Cacao Dark Chocolate. I’ve had 70% and it was still quite sweet. I love Dark Chocolate for it’s rich flavor and amazing smoothness. To me, Milk Chocolate can taste cheap a lot of the time. I don’t understand why Ghirardelli makes it Caramel Chocolate squares with Milk Chocolate. Caramel and Milk Chocolate is just too sweet! Back to the Valrhona, I have to admit I was a little disappointed. But I’m not a gourmet, so there is not much credit to my opinion. It has very fruity overtones, and pretty much no sweetness at all. I found it a little bitter and without much depth of cacao flavor. Maybe next time I will try the other bar they stock, Le Noir 56%.

I don’t think you can tell how thin these are compared to the original, but they are pretty slim.

The famous Valrhona chocolate.

Ever since my whole 1 and half bags of cinnamon raisin bagels molded (everything seems to mold here in 3 days if not kept in the refrigerator), I’ve had the most pressing cravings for carbs. Which scares me a lot because I recently read an article concerning carbohydrates and starches and curbing hunger (it was on my Yahoo! Headlines home sign-on page weeks ago, and I still can’t the article). The article talked about healthy ways to fulfill your hunger and the terrifying fact that carbohydrates make you hungrier! If you satisfy your hunger with carbs, you will feel even hungrier later. I think this phenomenon is due to a spike in some bodily chemical caused by consumption of carbohydrates.

I’m trying to stay on this salad-and-sandwich diet. I only eat two meals a day, really. I tried a while ago to only have salads, but that failed. Actually, it was going well for about 2 weeks, but once I had real food, I couldn’t go back. Then I decided sliced wheat sandwiches are pretty healthy too, so salad and sandwiches would be fine - you know, to switch it up a little. But then they had fried chicken one night - I know it’s disgusting, but I can’t resist fried chicken, especially because I hadn’t had it in a loong while. more))