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Most of us like to enjoy a chocolate candy bar now and then. Yet, if you want to enjoy a chocolate candy bar without a laundry list of chemicals and nasty ingredients, good luck….until now!

Q.bel Foods, made without any artificial colors, flavors, preservatives, high fructose corn syrup or hydrogenated oils (Trans Fat) and they’re causing quiet the stir in the chocolate world! Recently Whole Food Markets across the country helped launched a new, all-natural chocolate candy bar line. Q.bel was born after Bahram Shirazi, CEO of Q.bel Foods set out to create a chocolate candy bar for his children that wasn’t filled with chemicals and artificial ingredients.

Q.bel’s Chocolate Wafer Bars are made from layers of unsweetened crisp wafers with delectable fillings or real peanut butter, enrobed with Belgian chocolate. The Chocolate Wafer Rolls are made from rolled wafers, lightly filled with chocolate crème or real peanut butter and enrobed with yummy chocolate. Not only are the bars delicious, but ALL flavors are less than 200 calories!

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OK, so we smilingly applaud with a heartfelt standing ovation of pure appreciation, at attention and perfectly willing to be corrected! You see we absolutely “LOVE” our members and customers here at Bacon Freak and we especially love it when our members and customers love us back!

We just received a wonder letter from a couple of our favorite customer, who wanted to clarify, in no uncertain terms, their definition of what truly is “Meat Candy” in their humble opinion. You know what? They aren’t going to get any argument from us.

Here’s exactly what they wrote to us, only edited where it was absolutely necessary to protect there privacy, out of respect for our trusted, loyal relationship that we have developed with them.

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Last night I had pasta for dinner with some garlic bread, yum! I used my favorite noodles – rigatoni topped with the pasta sauce of Donatella’s. Donatella Apria has been dubbed the “dining donna” by Zagat, and judge on the Food Network series, “The Search for the Next Iron Chef,” introduces the first pieces in her new food collection: Essential Tomato Sauce, Ready-to-Serve Sauce, Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Almond Cookies handmade by Donatella herself. Her acclaimed New York City restaurants have earned Donatella the reputation for creating stylish atmospheres and traditional food with a modern flair.

Donatella has a simple, clear mission: to create everyday food solutions that are easy, healthy, quick, and also beautifully packaged and designed. The modern kitchen should be stocked with well-chosen pieces that are your go to staples for delicious, healthy meals.

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When it comes to great pasta sauce I think of those like Patsy’s. See they have proof that they have great sauce because they built a landmark destination restaurant in New York for lovers of authentic Neapolitan Cuisine who love their pasta sauce. The original, family owned and operated Italian restaurant at 236 West 56th Street on Manhattan’s West Side, has been a legendary dining destination in New York for over sixty years. Founded in 1944 by Pasquale “Patsy” Scognamillo, Patsy’s has been in it’s current theater district location since 1954. In over 60 years of existence, Patsy’s has had only three chefs, the late Patsy himself, his son Joe Scognamillo, who has been at the establishment since the age of seven, and Joe’s son Sal Scognamillo, who has been manning the kitchen for the past 20 years.

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I am an avid popcorn eater. I eat it almost every night. I eat it at every movie I go to. I just love popcorn. Like any food the more you eat it the more demanding your taste buds become!

For a while now I have been ordering and stocking up on Tom Clark Confections. Tom Clark Confections was founded by Thomas H. Clark in 1942 on the principal of giving the customer the finest products by way of using the best ingredients possible. Over the last 60 years Tom Clark Confections has created the finest, most indulgent variety of gourmet caramel corn nut clusters in the world. Thomas M. Clark, Thomas D. Clark and Timothy D. Clark share the same vision of innovation and quality which brings of all new and exciting items to you and your friends.

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