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I've had it before. It's kinda sweet and bland, like any other packaged hot chocolate mix. But it's fine. I bought some for after surgery too, I plan to mix it with fairlife high Protein skim milk.

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I bought it for after surgery.

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I used to make my chocolate Protein Shake on hot Water to convince myself it was hot chocolate. Didn’t always work though 😁.

Because sugar (incl a lot of artificial sweeteners) was cut out of my pre op diet & my changed taste buds post surgery, sweet things tasted terrible - horribly sweet & unpleasant. Don’t be surprised if you experience the same thing. It was great actually because I lost any desire I had for sweet.

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15 hours ago, Esi said:

https://www.swissmiss.com/sensible-sweets/no-sugar-added-hot-cocoa-mix

Has anyone tried Swiss Miss, no sugar added hot cocoa mix? Is this a good product for WLS?

I sometimes buy this but It’s a little tricky to mix as it likes to separate (so I started making sugar free hot cocoa from scratch)

I find if you mix it with a little cold Water, let it sit a minute then add hot water, it turns out better.

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1 hour ago, GreenTealael said:

I sometimes buy this but It’s a little tricky to mix as it likes to separate (so I started making sugar free hot cocoa from scratch)

I find if you mix it with a little cold Water, let it sit a minute then add hot Water, it turns out better.

I was making sugar free hot cocoa from scratch (unsweetened cocoa powder, add splenda, mix in a bit of fairlife skim milk to make a paste, then add more milk and heat) but it was clumpy. What is your trick to make it not clumpy? I found it tasted a lot better than the sugar free swiss miss, but the clumps of cocoa powder weren't fun.

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1 hour ago, lizonaplane said:

I was making sugar free hot cocoa from scratch (unsweetened cocoa powder, add splenda, mix in a bit of fairlife skim milk to make a paste, then add more milk and heat) but it was clumpy. What is your trick to make it not clumpy? I found it tasted a lot better than the sugar free swiss miss, but the clumps of cocoa powder weren't fun.

Yes it was for the clumps 😩

For pure cacao :

I stirred the paste of cacao, sugar substitute and a pinch of salt with a fork or whisk little at a time in boiling Water until they dissolved and then added the milk last.

However the exact opposite seemed to work for the SwissMiss, it needed cold water to dissolve.

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13 minutes ago, GreenTealael said:

Yes it was for the clumps 😩

For pure cacao :

I stirred the paste of cacao, sugar substitute and a pinch of salt with a fork or whisk little at a time in boiling Water until they dissolved and then added the milk last.

However the exact opposite seemed to work for the SwissMiss, it needed cold Water to dissolve.

Groan... it takes so long for my stove to heat up. I can't imagine having to wait for boiling water. Maybe if I just make a little water in the microwave it will be okay. I make the hot chocolate on the stove so it doesn't spill or burn.

I haven't tried adding salt. Sometimes I add a bit of vanilla extract.

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3 hours ago, lizonaplane said:

Groan... it takes so long for my stove to heat up. I can't imagine having to wait for boiling Water. Maybe if I just make a little water in the microwave it will be okay. I make the hot chocolate on the stove so it doesn't spill or burn.

I haven't tried adding salt. Sometimes I add a bit of vanilla extract.

Microwave boiled water works also, I’ve tried it! I honestly believe it just needs to be a certain temperature (what temp IDK so I go with boiling) to dissolve the cacao.

It is a little annoying to jump through so many hoops so I do t drink it often 😩

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