If that headline got your attention, you’re probably a chocoholic like I am.
Did you also say this mantra when being tested for food allergies? Please don’t let me be allergic to chocolate. Please don’t let me be allergic to chocolate. Please don’t let me be allergic to chocolate.
Ha! You ARE a chocoholic like me!
Fortunately, to my great relief, I am NOT allergic to chocolate!
Unfortunately, I AM allergic to dairy, eggs, soy, gluten, corn and vanilla–all ingredients that are typically found in most chocolate.
For a long time, I was sad. Very, very sad. Especially during Valentines Day and my birthday. And maybe also Thanksgiving and Easter . . . and all the days in between.
But now I’ve recently discovered Amanda’s Own Confections. Actually they discovered me (thank you! thank you!), and it just so happens the month of April is both my celiac college son’s and my birthday month. Yes, I know the lemon in the sunglasses looks way too young to have a kid in college (or perhaps that’s why An Allergic Foodie uses a lemon for a Gravatar! LOL!).
Anyway, back to chocolate. To celebrate our birthdays, Amanda’s Own Confections wants to give one lucky person a present–a box of chocolate bars! That’s right! An entire box. TWELVE BARS OF GLORIOUS CHOCOLATE.
These chocolate bars make me close my eyes and moan–maybe that’s too much info?–and there are only three ingredients: Cane sugar, unsweetened chocolate, cocoa butter. So this makes them free of dairy, nuts, gluten, eggs, sesame, and fish/shellfish. (Why any fish would be in any chocolate is incomprehensible, but I’m told it happens.)
Here’s what you need to do to enter (you only have to do one, but if you do all I will do a happy dance and post it on You Tube*).
- Write a comment below telling me how much you love chocolate (and my blog, of course).
- Follow @anallergicfoodie on Instagram and like one of the pictures of Amanda’s chocolate bars. I’ll be posting several.
- Follow me on Twitter–that 2,000 rule is killing me!–and tweet this blog post with hashtag #amandasown
- Like my Facebook Page and give a thumb’s up to one of my posts mentioning Amanda’s Own Confections.
- Pin this blog post on Pinterest.
The contest will end on Tuesday, April 22, 8 PM EST. Must live in the U.S. to enter.
Ready. Set. Go!
I hope you win!
*I won’t really do a happy dance on You Tube because my sons, and maybe my husband, would be mortified.
Chocolate! Allergy Friendly! Free! first appeared at Adventures of An Allergic Foodie.
I loooooooove chocolate! I’m tempted to say more than you, but I know better … can we just call it a tie? 😉
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Yeah to you enjoying chocolate! Love it with a sprinkle of cinnamon =P
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Never heard of putting cinnamon on chocolate. Will have to try that! I’m not allergic to cinnamon–only nutmeg. HA!
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Excited to try this chocolate! Are you coming to FABlogCon this year? Hope you can!
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I’m thinking of trying a different conference this year. Haven’t decided quite yet though.
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We love chocolate! Pick us please!
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I’ve only met one person who told me she hates chocolate. Seemed so strange to me. Who hates chocolate?
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I’m a chocoholic! And I’m glad I found your blog!
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I’m glad you found my blog, too! 🙂
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I couldn’t imagine winning these chocolates. I just found Amanda and my son got an easter bunny for the first time in his life. He is 8. We are allergic or sensitive to so many things in our house that finding chocolate bars/candy is just hard! But we can’t live without chocolate that would be a sad sad life.
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Theresa, So happy your son was able to eat Easter candy this year. I have older kids, but one is allergic to dairy/egg and one has celiac disease. I am so happy Amanda’s is available, too! Best to you and your son.
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I love chocolate so much – it’s kind of ridiculous. Your blog is great as well 🙂
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Thank you for reading my blog! 🙂
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We’ve been Amanda’s Own customers for years! It’s hard to find good, dairy-free, tree-nut free chocolate. Love, love, love it!!! 😀
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Love Amanda’s Own chocolate! Happy Birthday to you and your son!!
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Thank you! One of us in 21 today. 🙂
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I am so excited about this! I am a choco-holic but also have TONS of food allergies, including wheat, soy, tree nuts, peanuts, and dairy. It is nearly impossible to find safe chocolate to eat and I am eager to give this a try!
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Sounds like we have a lot in common, Amanda! Check out Amanda’s Own Confections website amandasown.com
The sunflower cups are the only ones that aren’t free of the top 8 allergens; all the rest are! And everything I’ve tried have been so yummy. Not like the “other” brands I’ve tried.
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Thank you for doing this! I have missed chocolate terribly since I was diagnosed with a soy allergy 3 years ago. It seems harder than ever to find #soyfree chocolate. Thank you for feeding my obsession!
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I LOVE chocolate and all that you do for the food allergy community in raising awareness!
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