Satisfy Your Hunger

• Have you ever tried to lose weight?
• While you were trying to lose weight, did you feel sensuous – sexy?
• When you were trying to lose weight, did you ever feel hungry?
• A year after you were trying to lose weight, did you keep the weight off?
• Would you like new answers to these questions?
• Weight loss is about controlling your appetite. And cutting your cravings. When you do that, weight loss is a natural result.
• When you lose weight steadily, naturally, and keep it off, you’ll feel sexy again. In control of your appetite, you regain control of your life.
• If trying to lose weight was difficult, discouraging, and ultimately unsuccessful a year later, then its time for you to do something different.
• Satisfy your hunger. Control your appetite. Cut your cravings. With Celebrate Chocolates you’ll eat less and succeed.

Chocolate is my friend, and I can never deny that I love it. So when I was asked to try out a new line of chocolate I immediately said yes. That new company is Celebrate Life Nutrition and they sent me some of their Celebrate Chocolate Truffles to review.

• Celebrate Creations (on the left) has 1 of each of the following: Cherry Vanilla, Roasted Almond Bit and Mountain Raspberry.
• Celebrate Classics (on the right) has Truffles and Cocoa Almonds.

Keeping my family away from these was hard work but I managed to try the Cherry Vanilla (my favorite) a Truffle and one Almond Bit before they were all gone. I really liked them all. The melt in your mouth flavor was great on the Cherry Vanilla (cherry is my favorite flavor) and the Truffles were amazing. The Cocoa Almonds were also good almonds at the center, cocoa powder on the outside, and a lot of Celebrate Chocolate in-between.

My favorite thing about this company and their chocolates is the story of how they came to be. Read the below excerpt from their website and just tell me that doesn’t make you want to try some today…

Like Celebrate Chocolate™, you have to start with premium cocoa, grown organically before there was any other way to grow it. You have to start with 100+ year old trees that reach deep into the remote Venezuelan highland soil, drawing out diverse and complex flavors achievable in no other place. Then you balance it with rich, coastal Guatemalan cocoa, grown under the shade of flowering, organic banana trees.

Next you add a touch of enchanting, exquisitely light honey harvested from the tropical bees that pollinate these same banana trees.

The crowning step in this storied process is coupling the rare cocoa blend, the exquisite honey, with a touch, the barest hint, of chile.

Montezuma’s recipe, the world’s original cocoa recipe, and Celebrate’s honoring of that ancient recipe, acknowledges that tantalizing flavors are only aroused deep inside your nose. Chile, not enough to taste – just a touch – just enough to arouse your olfactory senses, is added to allow you the subtle sensation of Celebrate’s rare, delicate Criollo cocoa.

Criollo cocoa? The great delicacy that is Criollo, is the oldest variety, highest quality, and rarest cocoa in the world (less than 1% of the world’s cocoa). With the barest hint of chile, you become immersed in the bounty of Criollo cocoa.

The Secret to Celebrate Chocolate™?

It begins with the cocoa. Then is touched by banana honey. And opened fully to your senses with Montezuma’s chile.So, that is where it starts. That is how Celebrate Chocolate™ begins to satisfy your hunger.

But that is only Chapter One.

Makes me want to have more that’s for sure! And like they said that is only Chapter 1 to read more about this great tasting chocolate go here. And you can read more about controlling your appetite and eating less go here. I actually did not experience that part of eating the chocolate but I will say that it might be possible with more pieces then I had the opportunity to review. As far as taste and texture and being delicious goes…well that all gets a thumbs up from me. I loved them and so did my family!

How would you like the chance to try some of Celebrate Life Nutrition’s Truffles out? I have been given the opportunity to giveaway the same two boxes above to one Dirty Shirt reader. See rules below to enter today…

Giveaway

• MAIN RULE – Tell me in comments what your favorite flavor is when it comes to sweets.  (remember if this rule is not followed then no others will count)
• 1 Extra Entry – Subscribe to my RSS feed or by email (or let me know if you already are) in a separate comment
• 1 Extra Entry – Stumble this post and leave your Stumble name (I will be checking) in a separate comment
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• 1 Extra Entry – Follow me on Twitter (button in subscribe section on on the right sidebar) and let me know your Twitter name in a separate comment.
• 1 Extra Entry for Tweeting about this giveaway. Please leave direct URL in comments so I can check or @jentifa
• 2 Extra Entries – Write a post on your blog linking to my blog and to the Celebrate Life Nutrition website.

This giveaway will run through midnight on June 6, with winner being announced the morning of June 7. Winner will be chosen using Random.org from all valid entries and notified via email. Winner will have 48 hours to contact me before another winner is chosen. Giveaway is open to U.S. residents only.

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I have had the opportunity to review the awesome new Gourmet Single Cup Mini Brewing System by Keurig. I say that this is awesome because it is the most compact and stylish coffee machine I have ever used. I had the most delicious cup of Hazelnut coffee and to top it all off the ease of use is a major plus.

Tired of brewing a whole pot with the possibility of pouring the unused portion down the drain? Tired of waiting 10 minutes for your regular brewer to finish brewing? Then this is the system for you. Not only is it easy to use but brews a steaming cup of coffee, tea or cocoa in under 3 minutes. How can you beat that?

This is the perfect system for those times when less is more. Great in dorm rooms, boats, rvs, vacation homes and hotel rooms. You won’t believe how good this machine is.  The features of this system are:

• Heats and brews in less than three minutes
• Comes in your choice of Red, White or Black
• Brews an 8oz. cup
• Comes with a 10 pack of K-Cups

I was amazed by the speed which it brewed and the tastiness of the coffee and I can’t wait to try the other flavors as well as the cocoa and teas they offer.

Now on to the good news! The great people at Keurig have given me an extra black Gourmet Single Cup Mini Brewing System and a 24 pack of Green Mountain Coffee Light Roast Breakfast Blend to give away to one of my readers. For this giveaway as all my other giveaway you must follow the rules or the entry will not count. And PLEASE leave an email address so you can be contacted. When entering please leave a seperate comment for each “extra” entry or it will not count. Rules are below:

• For your main entry (if this one is not done no others will count) I want you to tell me a “I Need Coffee NOW” moment. If you are not a coffee drinker then tell me how you keep yourself energized throughout the day.
• For 1 extra entry subscribe to my NEW RSS feed
• For 1 extra entry place my NEW button on your sidebar
• For 1 extra entry Stumble this post and leave your name for checking purposes
• For 1 extra entry favorite The Dirty Shirt on Technorati and leave your name for checking purposes
• For 1 extra entry blog about this giveaway and link to this post and Keurig and comment here with the URL
• For 1 extra entry visit here and tell me what flavor coffee, tea or cocoa you would want to try

That gives you a total of 7 chances to win. Contest will run from today October 6 – 31 with the winner being posted here and notified by email on the morning of Novemeber 1st. Winner will be chosen from valid entries by Random.org, and have 72 hours after being notified to respond before another winner will be drawn. Giveaway open only to U.S residents.