Red m&ms

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sister herb said:
Chocolate cookies with tea???? What are you people? British maybe? Sounds very extraordinary to me to mix words chocolate and tea.

Coffee it has to be. A big mug of hot coffee and then you dip your chocolate cookies to there. Be normal. Be Finnish.

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Noooo, it has to be milk tea..like chai or karak. Otherwise regular cookies with tea like butter cookies...But coffee with cookies is not bad either.
 
Scimitar said:
Coffee is for dunking shortbread biscuits :)

Scimi
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Senseless. You are giving me some chills here. I have to go now to have the extra dose of coffee and chocolate cookies.

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Meh. I don't like either coffee or tea. I don't like soggy biscuits either, because they remind me of biscuits which have been left out too long. :D Crunchy biscuits all the way.

And gosh I love McVities digestives, perhaps it's good thing they always seem to be sold out by the time I come. :(
 
Last time I checked, a lot of the mainstream chocolate brands have a lot of additives and unknowns in their ingredients which is why I've tried avoiding them, but there are plenty of (safe) options to choose from in regards to chocolate. There are a lot of chocolates that have simple / natural ingredients and are way better than m&ms. Go for chocolate covered (peanuts, raisins, walnuts, almonds, cashews, etc). Those types of chocolates usually ​have good ingrediants in them, but always check regardless.
 
*charisma* said:
I wish you didn't remind me. There's a brand of digestive biscuits called McVities..I assume you have it there..has chocolate on one side. I'm not allowed to get those anymore. :cry: Absolutely no self control with those.
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I know of those!! Hahaha
 
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I LOVE Hazelnut chocolates. They taste soo good! especially because it feels so crunchy when eating.

Back in the day, I made my own muffins. you can make your own chocolate bars. Lol. Just use Youtube for that. One better check the ingredients tho.

The E-numbers are hard to keep track of.

Allahu alam.
 
Wa alaykum assalam,

I've had it almost up to here with those E-colours - I'd never have known if I hadn't by coincidence just accidentally come across that online.

I love making muffins and brownies - and probably the best thing (apart from taste) is the security of knowing it is completely and utterly halal, alhamdulillah.

Smarties are okay as a replacement I suppose, they're brightly coloured and round little chocolates, so they'll do.
 
In the mean-time someone should email mnm's to make a vegetarian version
 
My favorite used to be peanut butter M&M's, I used to inhale those lol.

As you probably already know, most processed foods contains some very bad additives that are harmful to the body (like fire retardants and antifreeze to name a couple). I'd argue their halalness to be honest. Just because the FDA (or similar entities) approve these "foods" for consumption, doesn't make them good for you. If I were you, I'd drop all of the M&M's. Once you let go of these things for a prolonged period of time, your taste buds will adjust.

In our home, we don't eat anything out of packages, hubby and I are very firm on this. If we feel like chocolate, I make a very yummy chocolate sauce made with butter, coconut oil, cream and honey (or stevia). We drizzle it over fruit or I put it in little molds and fridge it.

There are better, healthier and more beneficial ways to enjoy a sweet :)
 
Ineed Umar said:
Umm why is carmine Haram? Sorry for this stupid question.
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I didn't know myself either until recently.

It's haraam because it is a red pigment produced from a certain type of insect, Cochineal - basically it's not vegetarian or halal as it is an insect.
 
As Salam alaikum

I think it's an going to the extremes
To call candy Haram

Eat the candy

Don't pressure yourself over a bite of chocolate

Salam alaikum
 
Wait, but insects are not haraam unless you follow hanafi. Insects do not have blood and many of them are a good protein source, like crickets. People have eaten these for millennia. The great scholars have debated this topic and Malaki scholars are in agreement that they are halal so long as they are dead. Also, Imam al Nawawi allowed the eating of ants.

I personally would be questioning other ingredients and their permissibility. The general consensus is that whatever harms the body is not permissible, yet people are eating carcinogens (and smoking them) left and right... I would eat bugs (if served in a palatable way LOL). How about some chocolate chirp cookies? :D
 
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noraina said:
Also, just to point out, whenever you are buying foods such as yoghurts or sweets or juices, and they are shades of pink, orange, red or purple, definitely check the ingredients for carmine or E120 - basically a form of beetle which is crushed to create certain colours.

It can also be in cosmetics - definitely check inshaAllah.

Just can't believe how I was eating those m&ms, I'm like chronically obsessed with label-reading and yet I have no idea why I didn't even bother to read the packaging of that chocolate which is almost always in the kitchen cupboards. Astaghfirullah, honestly. :hmm:
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Ahhhh man I loved m&ms [emoji28] damn
 
Umm♥Layth said:
Wait, but insects are not haraam unless you follow hanafi. Insects do not have blood and many of them are a good protein source, like crickets. People have eaten these for millennia. The great scholars have debated this topic and Malaki scholars are in agreement that they are halal so long as they are dead. Also, Imam al Nawawi allowed the eating of ants.

I personally would be questioning other ingredients and their permissibility. The general consensus is that whatever harms the body is not permissible, yet people are eating carcinogens (and smoking them) left and right... I would eat bugs (if served in a palatable way LOL). How about some chocolate chirp cookies? :D
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Ohhhh, so there's a difference of opinion on this?

I'll take that into account whenever I'm discussing this with someone, always good to know and respect any ikhtilaf on an issue.

I think I'll personally avoid eating any creepy crawlies lol, 99.9% of my community are hanafi so I've always been told they're haraam. And besides I'm not a bug person, I know locusts are halal but I can't imagine myself eating one.

And you can keep all those chocolate chirp cookies to yourself, thank you very much :D
 
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Ugh... the one thing I really hated about living in the UK when I did, was the whole halal thing. Constantly checking labels for ingredients etc. It was a strain. Now I'm home in the UAE, I am just checking if stuff is gluten free and how many calories there are. ;D
 

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