Chocolate chips

I think I've mentioned before that I have such an addiction to m&ms that I avoid buying them altogether. I know my addictions and I try to deal with them on my own, with limited success. But now I'm seeing that my addiction is really more about chocolate than m&ms because I'm equally struggling with chocolate chips. You know the ones I'm talking about - not the cookies - but the actual Toll House semi-sweet chocolate bits that we buy in bags to make the cookies with. I love them.

I think, like m&ms, the appeal of the chocolate chips is the small size and the fact that I can get a quick chocolate fix with just a few in my hand, slowly melted in my mouth and savored for their flavor and texture. The chips are nice and smooth whereas the m&ms are a wonderful combination of melted chocolate with that nice crunchy shell. Yum.

The bottom line is that chocolate brings about endorphins and endorphins bring about a wonderful feeling of contentment and having a handful of chocolate, whether chips or m&ms, provides a nice little lift in the middle of the day. Or at the end. Or the beginning. And so presents the problem. I can't keep my hands out of the cupboard.

Ah, chocolate. Soothes the savage beast. Or is that music?