Your Age in Chocolate! - Try This - it Works!

A friend forwarded me this in an email - and it works - no matter what number you pick.

Try it! It's fun!

Try it several times, and forward it on to anyone you know who loves chocolate!

First, pick a number between one and 10 to decide how many times in a week you'd like to have chocolate.

Next, multiply the number by 2.

Then, add 5.

Multiply by 50.

If you've had your birthday already this year, add 1760. If you haven't had your birthday yet, add 1759.

Now - subtract the four-digit year you were born.

You'll have a 3-digit number. The first number will be the number you picked in the beginning. The second two digits will be your correct age!

Now - wasn't that fun! :-)

Smith Organic Chocolates is dedicated to bringing you the latest in product and nutritional information about chocolate. But - we also wanna bring on the fun!

Where you can find us

Here's how we look at Akron Nutrition Center, Akron, PA. We package our chocolates in clear cello bags with ingredient labels and gold & brown ribbons.

We can also be found at Green Box Boutique, in Woodstock, IL. Connie Citarelli opened this store on Friday, February 12th.

We can also be found at our website: www.smithorganicchocolates.com, www.chocolate.com, and soon to be on Nation's Grocer.

Smith Organic Chocolates is a growing company. Who knows, in a couple of years, we may even have our own storefront?

A Little Dark Chocolate a Day...

A little dark chocolate a day, can help reduce heart risk - according to new studies being published in the European Heart Journal.

Here's a quote from AP Medical Writer Maria Cheng:

"German researchers followed nearly 20,000 people over eight years, sending them several questionnaires about their diet and exercise habits.

"They found people who had an average of six grams of chocolate per day - or about one square of a chocolate bar - had a 39 percent lower risk of either a heart attack or stroke."

It's the flavonoids, found in vegetables and red wine which help to open up blood vessels and helps lower blood pressure.

More and more studies are confirming what chocolate lovers already know - that chocolate in moderate and small amounts - dark chocolate of at least 65% - is like an apple a day - it will help keep the doctor away.

Smith Organic Chocolates is dedicated to bringing you the latest nutritional information about health benefits of chocolate, as well as our product information and where we can be found.

American Chocolate Week March 15-21

I'll bet you didn't konw that this week is American Chocolate Week! I wouldn't have either except a certain calendar I got in the mail at the end of last year told me that this week was American Chocolate Week.

I remember passing by a retail store a couple of years ago, after I'd started my chocolate business. They had posted a sign about American Chocolate Week. I thought "how did they know and why didn't I know?" I was a little embarrassed. After all, here I am, making chocolates, and I don't even know when American Chocolate Week is?

At any rate, I found out this year - and I'm announcing it! This week is American Chocolate Week. This week - March 15 -21.

How will you celebrate?

Smith Organic Chocolates is dedicated to bringing you the latest in chocolate product and nutritional information.

Spring Holidays Information

This is an Organic Coconut Egg. Kirby makes these from an adapted family recipe - and everytime he makes them, he is reminded of when he was a kid - and he helped his mom make them.

We also make Organic Peanut Butter and Organic Almond Butter Eggs, Organic Milk Chocolate Solid Laughing Bunnies, Organic Dark Chocolate Solid Crosses, and much more!

Check out our Spring website: http://www.smithorganicchocolates.com/ for all our Easter offerings.

We also have a Spring Holidays Catalog available in PDF format for your perusual. If you'd like one, email us at: smithorganicchocolates@dejazzd.com.

And if you don't see what you'd like, contact us, and we'll see if we can make it happen for you.

Smith Organic Chocolates is dedicated to bringing you the latest in organic chocolate nutritional and product information. If you have any quesitons, please contact us.

Two New Studies - Chocolate can lower stroke risk

I love it! The more they study dark chocolate, the more health benefits they find!

These studies are hot off the press and are about to be released to the American Academy of Neurology's (AAN) 62nd Annual Meeting, being held in Toronto, Ontario between April 10 and 17.

In a press release dated February 11, 2010, the AAN said that an analysis of three studies contributed to this conclusion. Two studies focused on chocolate, the other focused on strokes. To quote the release:

"The first study found that 44,589 people who ate one serving of chocolate per week were 22 % less likely to have a stroke than people who ate no chocolate. The second study found that 1,169 people who ate 50 grams of chocolate once a week were 46% less likely to die following a stroke than peple who did not eat chocolate."

It's the flavinoids found in chocolate that are so healing. The study said, "Chocolate is rich in antioxidants called flavinoids, which may have a protective effect against stroke, but more research is needed."

Smith Organic Chocolates had a customer with Lou Gehrig's disease who felt better if she ate chocolate every day. I think it was also the gentle stimulation that chocolate provides. For more information on the non-caffiene stiumulant that chocolate is - see a previous post.

Smith Organic Chocolates is dedicated to bringing you the latest in chocolate news, information, and nutritional help. What do you think? Post a comment and let us know.

SPRING is on the way - Cleaning

Valentine's Day is over - and we had a great one! We shipped out 42 orders the week of Valentine's - and we survived an 18" snow in the middle of the week to boot!

As you can see, we're cleaning up and organizing. This was actually a 'staged' picture to show our 'inside' facility for Chocolate.com.

More pictures to follow - as we are totally revamping and re-organizing our chocolate "office" (Mom's old bedroom/old guestroom). We're not re-decorating yet - I think that might come in the late Spring. I still like having reminders around here that Mom was with us those six years (two in this house).

But there's very little left to make it appear that it was once a bedroom...just a chest of drawers (which we use for storage of ribbon, doilies, party supplies, etc. and a bookcase that also 'stores' things.

The only thing we don't do from this office is produce chocolate. That's done in the kitchen. But the administrative, packing and shipping is all done in our "office." Pictures to follow - when I've got it the way I want it.

And - we're planning for Easter - only seven weeks away! More info on those specials coming in about 2-3 weeks.