My DH and DS told me last night that there is going to be a chocolate shortage. Something about the cocoa bean crop or something they claim they heard it on the news. This is not going to be good cause I need my chocolate dailly.Any one else hear anything on this am I going to have to start stock piling.maky

Are they pulling your leg???? This is exactly the kind of thing my hubby would say just to tease me! :lol:

Oh, no, absolutely not ... can't live without my chocolate :shock: If that's true I'm sure the price will skyrocket :-(

Susan

They were not kidding! I read it in the Business section of the paper. The flooding in Indonesia and other parts of the cocoa producing world have been clobbered. I think stockpiling is in order!

Yes, I had heard something to that effect a couple of months ago and it also effects coffee. What isn't going up? First fabric and now chocolate!!!!!

Next thing to go up will be our blood pressure when we can't get chocolate! Say it isn't so!!!!! :shock:

Oh no! What is this world coming to?? First, fabric prices going up, now chocolate! What's next? I bet it's a conspiracy cooked up by a bunch of spouses in their last ditch effort to get their partners to pay more attention to them! LOL

Hmm I think I will have to start a chocy STASH

I will not live without chocolate...dark is my choice. Guess I will start a stash now while we still can!

Living without chocolate has made my waste line smaller. So it won't bother me at all.

I will definately have to work on chocolate stash as well!!

Fabric, coffee AND chocolate :shock: I am off to the store :D:D:D

I'm right there with you. I only need a little taste every once in a while.

not me if it is in the house I have to eat it. so it would be no good having a stash it would be gone in no time. I don't buy it very often as my waistline neads to shrink not expand, I have no control when it is in the house but I can control how much comes into the house

I heard that on CNN too. Just have to buy up what's out there and get a climate controlled storage unit, won't we?

Now is the perfect time!! Tomorrow all the V-day candy will be half off!!Stock up!!

Exactly!!! Great idea.

NO....Say it aint so!! I simply cannot survive without my coffee and choc!

It's true, so we best start accumulating some for later!

Amen to this!

Nope, not kidding. They say that chocolate and coffee, among other things, are going to go sky high. One article that I read said that chocolate could go to $10 a pound!

If you can vacuum pack it, store it in the freezer. Stays fresh that way when you open it. Also, make small packages to out smart yourself when you thaw to eat.

And one of the African countries on the Ivory Coast have stopped exporting their cocoa beans so that too is putting a huge strain on chocolate availability. Their beans, apparantly, are used for the higher % bitter chocolate too, so that will hit me hard, but I guess it is time to cut back and lose some pounds!

My thought exactly (New England brain cells). When I stock up on sale candy, I hide it in the freezer. However, be sure to double wrap in freezer paper, and write "Chicken Hearts" or "Liver" on the outside to keep out the family snackers.

I better stock up a bit!

They probably misunderstood...it was a cotton shortage but hey...cotton...chocolate...a shortage is a disaster either way!!!!

I have also heard this. Please don't take my chocolate or coffee.

I heard the same thing..... how will we survive??? More importantly, how will those around us survive when we can't get our fix????

It's true. My husband saw it, too.

I am diabetic so I seldom have it anyway.If I have it around I eat too much.So might be a good thing for me.

If it was priced out of reach then maybe I wouldn't eat it.

Chocolate and cotton...what next?

I am a recovering chocaholic. I also had severe PMDD. A lovely nurse practitioner started me taking B6 and Magnesium. Did you know that chocolate is very high in Magnesium and a deficiency can be what makes us chocaholics? At least that's what I learned. I enjoy an occasional good chocolate a whole lot more now that I don't have to have it.

I sure hope not. I have been on the dark chocolate so long that regular milk doesn't taste good to me anymore.

this is the one I read about also.

Chocolate stash is required material for bad days. Must get more chocolate!

You mean now we have to start chocolate stashes too?????????

Supposedly by 2012, chocolate bars will be $10.00+. Now, not only do we need to stock up on fabric, we have to hoard the chocolate too. Picture a lot of chocolate covered cherries here and enjoy. :)

Hummm stockpile or stop eating it. I stopped eating it several years ago for several months. I needed extra prayer time for my family so every time I felt an urge for choc I would stop and pray. It worked very well for about a month then the cravings stopped. After a couple of months I started eating choc again...and promptly got sick from eating it. I'm really going to have to think about giving it up again...just not sure people will like me for the month it takes to get out of my system!

Diannia

I remember once a long time ago my mom heard there was going to be a toilet paper shortage. She had every closet full of toilet paper.