Chocolate o'clock

It is just after 3pm in Sydney and my body is telling me it is:

 

Chocolate oclock
Chocolate oclock
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Is there some physiological reason why this occurs?  I know it is not just me as whenever I am selling fundraising chocolates at work for the kids school or whatever, there is always a stampede of people coming to my desk at 3pm.  Even if I am not feeling the cravings myself, this tells me that it must be chocolate 'o'clock. 

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Lakshmi
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You too?
I crave chocolates around three too. Perhaps the body has finished digesting and assimilating the lunch by then and is ready for some carbohydrate.
Or it is just the hormones.
Jaffnut

I think it's something to do with 3pm is around the time our blood sugar drops. I've just had a coffee & shared a Picnic bar!

Empress Nasi Goreng
Lol. Well it is 3:30 now and I have still not succumbed. Wish me luck!
Empress Nasi Goreng
COuld be but as JSM used to say "Why is it so?". 3am also seems to be a weird time.
Maju
Hm, I usually have a drink of Milo around 3 pm. Chocolate strikes again!
Brown Suga'
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Not just chocolate o'clock, but chocolate cake o'clock.
Empress Nasi Goreng
I prefer chocolate to chocolate cake. Just liked that photo because the clock was set at 3 o'clock!
Empress Nasi Goreng
Yum! I should bring some milo into work as we have milk provided here. Would be cheaper (and probably healthier) than having to go and buy a chocolate bar from the newsagency under the office.
Melisa
I think it also depends what you eat for lunch =)
Just had brownies around 2 pm because had unsatisfying "Light" leggo pasta today.
cat
isn't it a lot to do with what you eat for breakfast? I don't know because I never suffer from the chocolate crave or even the 3 o'clock crave.
[Susan]
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I would have succumbed within a heartbeat LOL.....chocolate is always been my weaknesses hehehe
Monsoon
I think I would start at the 12 and eat my around to the 11. ;-) Looks delicious!
Karen
I had a major chocolate attack last night 10pm. 2.5 candy bars worth. I had great dreams :))
Empress Nasi Goreng
Yes, that would do it. I hate those 'light' meals. You always end up needing to eat two of them.
Empress Nasi Goreng
So what do you have for breakfast, cat? I am lucky to get a piece of toast with my coffee although sometimes my husband makes me eat porridge (yuck!).
Empress Nasi Goreng
Kind of depends on the time of month for me - sometimes I hate it and sometimes I can't get enough!
Empress Nasi Goreng
I wouldn't be able to get to sleep at all if I did that!
cat

Well I don't have breakfast until 10am because I go for a run at 9am and I have to do that on an empty stomach or else it's all I can think about - the food sloshing around in there. So when I get home I either have an egg on toast, muesli with yoghurt or protein shake with frozen fruit (in summer). So that means I don't have lunch until 1pm (which is always tuna cheese tomato toasted sambo). Then thats usually it until dinner. Although I'm trying to remember to have an apple every afternoon about 4pm because I keep reading what a superfood they are.

And I don't know if you are a sardine fan, but John West now have little sardine tempters like the tuna and they are sooooo good. I have them in my sambo sometimes.

I've never been much of a sweet tooth though, I'm a savoury girl. Give me a plate of chips and gravy or corn ships and salsa any day.

Karen
sambo means sandwich? ;-)
Empress Nasi Goreng
Sounds very healthy, Cat. I have much better this year about bringing enough food into work with me so I don't have to go and eat takeaway crap and succumb to sweet cravings. I quite like those mini tubs of peaches - find that if I keep those in my drawer, I can eat one at sugar dip time and helps get over the chocolate cravings.
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Yes, or you could say 'sanger'.
cat
yes c'mon girl, get with the aussie lingo!!
cat
I never find them fulfilling enough on their own. Ok if I mix them with a tub of yoghurt. I don't like fruit much at the best of times - like veg better.
Empress Nasi Goreng
I ate loads of peaches and plums when pregnant with my son - couldn't get enough of them. Now he is also a huge stone fruit fan (ie, to the point where I have to stop him or he will give himself the runs).
cat

They're just never very nice now. I only really have woolworths to shop at and most of the stone fruit is always rock hard then you get it home and it's rotten the next day! I do like nectarines though.

Empress Nasi Goreng
I hate supermarket fruit. Fortunately we have really good greengrocer near us where we can get stone fruit by the tray load when it is in season. OUr local Lebanese corner shop also good for stone fruit (think apricots and things very popular in the Middle East).
Karen
I'm learning :))

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