Lily'sMilk Chocolate Style No Sugar Added, Sweets Bars, 3 oz (12 Count)

I know, I know, keto purists will harp on some of the ingredients. It seems like every day some "expert" is coming out against another ingredient that will sabotage weight loss, cause inflammation, start a world war, whatever. Know what? I don't care! Lily's chocolates have saved me time and time again from hopping in the car and hot-wheeling it over to Aldi's candy and baked goods aisle.I try very hard to follow a low carb, if not entirely keto, way of eating. But it's not as easy as some people say. At least, it isn't for me. After a while, the thought of another slab of beef or a plate of bacon and eggs makes me gag. I used to satisfy that occasional urge for something sweet with a small handful of Lily's baking chips. Then I discovered these amazing milk chocolate bars.Funny thing is, with a regular, sugar-laden chocolate bar of the same size, I would easily consume the whole thing in one sitting and still want more. That's the nature of food addiction. But with these, I find that a couple of squares do the trick and, most important, don't create that irresistible urge to eat more. A little schmear of peanut butter along with it, and it's the closest thing to a Reese's peanut butter cup you're likely to find. You can even melt a few squares in a cupcake liner, drop in a spoonful of peanut butter, and cover it with more melted chocolate, and there you have it.Yeah, they're expensive. Show me something for the low carb/keto lifestyle that isn't three or four times pricier than the garbage made with cheap ingredients like sugar, white flour, high fructose corn syrup, inflammatory seed oils, etc. You get what you pay for. Personally, I find that I need so little of Lily's chocolate to satisfy me that they actually save me money - not to mention keeping me on the low carb track.What surprised me most about this particular product was how very close to the taste of a Hershey's chocolate bar they are. Not as sweet and creamy as my old favorite, Cadbury, but close enough. Normally, anything with stevia leaves an unpleasant aftertaste, but these don't. Not for me, at least, and I'm pretty sensitive to that sort of thing. I also tried Lily's salted caramel chocolate bars, and they're delicious, but I like the taste of these plain milk chocolate bars even better.Oh, and keto purists? Another thing. I checked my blood sugar before and about an hour after eating a few squares, and there was no change. Maybe that's just my individual body's response. Everyone is different and you have to experiment sometimes to see what does and doesn't work for you. For me, Lily's chocolates work.

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Lily's stuff has been fantastic for last couple of years.Little details for chocolate enthusiast.#1 - shipment during summer and heat conditions (yup it melts) - I have had it delivered packed in cooler type thing and other times came plain box and was melted. Don't recall if it was a separate vendor or whatever but yup that is an issue.#2 - flavor profile and feel (varies) sometimes its absolute heaven sometimes its pretty good. Heaven and softer OMG - just okay and harder Meh... Don't know how that works. But hey I am not complaining ... when its heaven its worth every penny. OMG OMG!!#3 - Price seems to vary? I haven't been able to correlate it to some chocolately rise in raw ingredients issue or some insider leak that the chocolate is perfect on this batch. Don't know... Need to keep exploring.Hope that helps!

I am a newly-diagnosed diabetic and stumbled onto this product online. I was purchasing them at several grocery stores around town but they're always out of the product. So now I buy them in bulk from Amazon at a considerable savings -- and they arrive shipped in an ingenious "cold-pack" which keeps them from melting on your front porch!!!! This product tastes like real chocolate -- I highly recommend the "milk chocolate style" and the "milk chocolate with hazelnut," but the dark chocolate flavors are also really nice. Each bar may be broken into 3 equal parts (at 14-17 carbs apiece) -- I usually have one part for dessert at lunch AND dinner, IN ADDITION TO a full-strength "sugared" dessert like a cookie or ice cream cup. Lily's bars are sweetened with Stevia and Erythritol, and don't have that aspartame-y aftertaste. They also contain chicory root which helps lower glucose levels. Come on, diabetics -- get with the program! (FYI: even people who are not diabetic find this product to be quite tasty!)

I mean, if I can eat chocolate every day and still avoid eating sugar, that’s a win-win for me! Love all the different flavor varieties.

Beware of the GI side effects. These taste great but the erythritol can cause diarrhea and a LOT of gas. Also wish the price was a little less. More than $3.50 for a chocolate bar is steep, especially when other Lily’s flavors are cheaper.

Utterly tasteless, not even much of an after taste. Do your self a favor and look elsewhere.

The 36 percent Cocoa actually makes it a darker version of milk chocolate. It's very delicious.