Enjoy Life Boomchocoboom Bar

The most difficult thing about having to go gluten-free for me involves treats.   I’m not a ”eat a bag of cookies” kind of girl but I do love chocolate, would willing give up a goodly share of my soul for one of my mamere’s buttertarts and love pizza.  Once I discovered that for me wheat equals intense abdomenal pain and insomnia, these things fell into the category of gone forever.  I’ve had to do that before, a violent allergy to artificial orange flavouring means I haven’t had Orange Crush since 1987 (and it was my favourite)!  So I took a deep breath, squared my shoulders and basically told myself ”no more”.   Today my Mum stopped by after a trip across the river to Michigan and dropped off a bag of groceries she found at a health food store and in the bag was a specialty chocolate bar.   My husband teased me for a few seconds before handing over the bar.

The bar in question is the BoomChocoBoom Bar by Enjoy Life.  The packaging proclaims it to be Dairy, Nut & Soy free as well as being Gluten Free, no artificial anything!  Those are quotes, by the way.   If you’ve never had a gluten free bar, be prepared for a few differences.  Texturally, it’s nothing like the soft, chocolate that you’re going to get in a Hershey’s bar.  It’s not glossy, it doesn’t have that instant melt that milk chocolate has but what you get for a trade off is an intense chocolate flavour.   This particular bar has rice crisps in it so the texture isn’t the silky texture of a milk bar but it wasn’t what I’d call gritty either – it was very reminiscent in taste and texture to a Hershey Crunch bar.  Like most gluten free products, the size is smaller than you’d expect from a regular bar (it was 1.12oz or 32g) – that said, this is a treat I gave up as lost so I’m certainly not going to complain about portion size.

Overall opinion:  I’d definitely get this product again as an indulgence.   It satisfied a craving and here I sit an hour later, guilt and pain free.  When you’re living with gluten intolerance, that’s everything.

Grade:  A-