As I noted a few days ago, cocoa prices are up, I paid $8 for an 8oz container of Hershey’s cocoa powder.

In my protein drinks I use chocolate as the flavor, and for many years I’ve used the Ghirardelli chocolate drink mix. It used to be called “Sweet Ground Chocolate and Cocoa”, but recently the name “Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate & Cocoa Sweet Ground Powder”.

It is not bitter dark, rather it’s just a sweet chocolate powder. A commenter on Amazon was surprised that sugar was the first ingredient, and yes it is a sweet drink mix.

But it’s also got a fair amount of chocolate and cocoa in it. And to my taste buds it is better than the usual mass market cocoa mixes one finds in the grocery store. Including the Starbucks brand of cocoa mix, which is priced at several times the Ghirardelli.

I bring this up here because today Amazon dropped the price of a 3lb container to just $13.80, a deal when one looks at the plain cocoa powder prices.

Given the way cocoa production is going with climate problems in Ghana and elsewhere, I don’t know if these low prices will last long.

Chocolate lovers: we got to hoard while we can!