Dangerously good

Weight Watchers uses the term "red light foods" to refer to foods that are problematic for overweight people, especially dieters.  If you know what your red light foods are then you should treat them exactly the same as you would react to a red traffic light -- STOP.  In the same way that running a red light is asking to be involved in a car accident, taking a bite of a red light food can often lead to a disastrous eating binge.  If you don't stop before you take that first bite, you may very well find that you can't stop until all of the bites are gone.  : /  

I have a very long list of red light foods . . . which I routinely ignore.  Today I added another food to the list and you better believe that when it comes to this treat, I will totally ignore the list and the accompanying huge red light.

Trader Joe's Dark 70% Cacao Chocolate Bar with Caramel with Black Sea Salt.*

Oh. My. Goodness.  This is one dangerously good chocolate bar.

From the deliciously bittersweet dark chocolate to the silky smooth caramel filling to the perfect contrast of grains of Hawaiian black sea salt, this is definitely a red light food.

Fortunately, Trader Joe's is a little bit of a drive from my house so I don't shop there very often.  All of the traffic lights -- red, yellow, and green -- between my home and Trader Joe's may be the only thing that saves me from disaster.

*Even though the name of the chocolate bar sounds awkward because of the double use of "with," that is exactly how the bar is identified on the back of the packaging.  I would have substituted "and" for the second "with" but I won't let that syntactical clumsiness keep my from consuming far too many of these amazing indulgences.  : )