February 14

How I Celebrated

Today is a great day. I know why they have cream filled chocolates today, but you know I celebrate a different holiday. Shoes day. And second Halloween. So, cream filled chocolates are STILL fitting. Today I had some fake dollar store Lindt truffles. Not the same at all. Way too much sugar, not all the richness that I love. Besides, it is the white chocolate ones I am addicted to. Though expensive, I can still eat a whole bag in one day. Those things are like crack.

Diet Helpers 

• Sugar Free

  Try your luck at these sugar free candy recipes

• Gluten Free

  Sugar and egg white can make fine filling. No gluten!

• Vegetarian

  You know it

Recipes

• Obviously you would need a round mold to try and duplicate the shape, but why not try making your own lindor truffles?!
• How about an instructable on how to make chocolates?
• A more professional approach

Follow Molly's board February 14 Recipes on Pinterest.

History

 I really don't get the hype about the boxes of chocolates for V day. I mean sure, as a young girl, that is all that I could want, except, I am particular about my chocolates. If you really loved me, you would show it by getting some that actually tastes good. Most of those samplers only have one or two good ones, the rest are just ammo to throw at the guy for messing up ;)
Hmm, on another note, reading up on Whitman's, did you know it was sold to Russell Stover and that Russell Stover was acquired by one of my favorites, Lindt. Interesting how large corporations just try to monopolize like that, huh?

Merchandise

I would encourage you to TREAT YO SELF today cause you know what you like! Also, you could be cool and celebrate second halloween/ shoes day like Nate and Me.
Follow Molly's board February 14 Merch on Pinterest.

Restaurants

• Here are Nat Geo's 10 best chocolatiers in the world. (be careful though, they sold out to dirty old Rupert Murdoch so I don't know if I trust them)
• Food and wine also has their idea of the best chocolate in the US
• Check out what CBS said were the best Chocolate Shops in LA

Other Things to Celebrate Today

• National Cherry Month
• Celebration of Chocolate Month
• National Hot Breakfast Month
• National Snack Food Month
• Potato Lover's Month
• Berry Fresh Month
• Canned Food Month
• Great American Pies Month
• Fiber Focus Month
• National Grapefruit Month
• Sweet Potato Month
• National Fondue Month
• National Heart Healthy Month
• Return Carts to the Supermarket Month
• Bake for Family Fun Month
• Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Week
• Great Backyard Bird Count
• Have a Heart for Chained Dogs Week
• International Flirting Week
• International Friendship Week
• International Week of Black Women In the Arts
• Lent
• Love a Mensch Week
• Love Makes the World Go Round, but Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week
• National Cardiac Rehabilitation Week
• National Green Week
• National Marriage Week USA
• NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week
• Random Acts of Kindness Week
• Risk Awareness Week
•  Autism Sunday
• Frederick Douglass Dy
• Internationl Book Giving Day
• League of Women Voters Day
• Library Lovers Day
• National Condom Awareness DAy
• National Donor Day
• National Ferris Wheel Day
• National Have a Heart Day
• National Pet Theft Awareness Day
• National Women's Heart Day
• Quirky Alone Day
• Race Relations Day
• Singles Awareness Day
• Valentine's Day
• World Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day
• World Marriage Day