Next month is Dechox 2022 when people are being asked to put cocoa and chocolate on hold to both enjoy the health benefits and raise money for charity.
Anyone who backs it will be helping the British Heart Foundation in its bid to raise money for ground breaking research into heart and circulatory diseases.
So why not take a look at some great chocolate scenes from South Tyneside’s past as we indulge for the last few days of February.
5. Hamper time in 2005
Chocolate time 17 years ago and Ray Spencer has a hamper to go to one lucky competition winner in South Tyneside. Was it you? Photo: sg
6. Pizza with a difference
Frascati Pizzas which made chocolate pizzas in this 2006 photo. Photo: sg
7. Just the thing on a cold day
Susan Ling with winter hot chocolate on the Sandhaven Beach promenade in 2020. Photo: sg
8. Wonderful in Whitburn
Back to 2006 for this view of Simply Chocolate in Whitburn. Photo: sg