Hot Cocoa for the Thrifty
January 18, 2008 by Karen Weideman
Filed under food
Brrrrr. We’ve had some cold weather this week. Nothing beats a hot cup of cocoa after coming in from playing with the kids.
Good Housekeeping tested 19 nationally available supermarket brands of cocoa. Surprisingly, Swiss Miss Milk Chocolate hot cocoa tied for first place with Godiva. Swiss Miss can be purchased for about $1.79 a box.
Lake Champion Old World Drinking Chocolate was the winner. It has chocolate shavings instead of a powdered mix. Yummy. Each canister costs about $12. Ouch! Perhaps this one can be saved for special occasions (or for when the kids aren’t around). 
If you’d like to make your own hot chocolate, try Revka’s recipe.
During the winter months our neighborhood Wal-mart has 10 count boxes of Swiss Miss for $.97 a box. (They have Swiss Miss Chocolate Lovers 8 count for $.97.) What a delicious buy!
I see Swiss Miss for sale at 99 cents just about everywhere this time of year. One thing to watch out for though is the Swiss Miss at the dollar stores are generally always only 6 count and not the 10 count…so no bargain there.
I always thought Swiss Miss was too sweet but maybe I am thinking of the one with mini-marshmallows added. Maybe I will have to give it another try.
Swiss Miss has been our favorite for years!! We always put dark chocolate shavings on top of whip cream in it!
Haven’t had it this winter though….time to go get some.
~melody~