Chocolate diet snack

These are a great snack if you are on a diet, because they are sweet and nutty and chocolatey BUT you can't eat more than a couple at a time because of the results.
 

Step 1 Ingredients

30 dates
150g slivered almonds
100g cooking chocolate

saucepan and bowl for chocolate
frypan for almonds
plate, spoon, knife for dates

Comments

[Jurassic]

Where can you get the dates?

[alialexander]

http://www.sweetnutshop.com.au/home.aspx

[Jurassic]

thanks!

[Madrigorne]

I wonder if this would work with prunes... I can get prunes locally grown, fill them with locally grown sunflower seeds, and then chocolate them up. No local chocolate here - but it's...just...so...good....

[Kogitsune]

I love dates, so this is an automatic win. Looks great!

[Sparkyrob]

I agree.

[WildHeavenFarm]

What did you mean by "you can't eat more than a couple at a time because of the results"?

[Shindou]

....dates are a natural laxative....eat 1, you are good, 2, you might want to stop, 3 dear god NO!!!!, 4 WHAT WERE YOU THINKING YOU LOON!!!!,5......you must be a glutton for punishment

[Sparkyrob]

You must have sensitive insides. I usually hit them by the handfull, but any more than that and the laxative will start to take effect. If only my wife liked them too... I guess I have to try this recipie and keep it all for myself.

[suckrpnch]

Strange. I have never had that be an issue and I have blown through a box of dates in a sitting before.

This sounds like a nice snack, but the chocolate isn't even needed if you want it healthy. I wonder if you could do a yogurt coating? That would taste awesome...

[jwinstead]

No chocolate? Egads!!!

[mizdarlin]

Sorry, but these sound yummy-hardly dietetic..diuretic perhaps for some-wish dates had this effect on me, but they don't..to make them a bit healthier, you could sprinkle them with unswweetened fine shredded coconut before the chocolate hardens..

[BtheBike]

Good idea about the coconut . depending on the chocolate used,these can be a bit healthier than other sweets . Dates are loaded with sweetness but also Fiber ,which isn't really a diuretic but a bunking agent =). Coffee is much more a diuretic than dates . Same for the caffeine in real chocolate .

Ripe dates and brown bananas are 2 of the best ways to add sweetness to diet . High in potassium too.

[chrwei]

this is a great idea for an ad-hoc double boiler!

[mikedice]

Loll, this is an evil combination, if I may say so...:))))

[webdesignfx]

Yum Yum!! Looks delicious!!

[scoochmaroo]

Those sound really delicious! Dates are too sweet for me to really eat more than one, but I love the idea of how you've layered these flavors.