Now, where was I? Ah yes, chocolate.

Maybe it's to do with the fact that the melting point of cocoa butter is less than body temperature, which is why it melts in your mouth. Maybe it's because chocolate is said to be an aphrodisiac or maybe, as one study suggests, that the sensation of melting chocolate in your mouth increases your heart rate to a level that is more intense than that associated with passionate kissing!

I was also alarmed to see recently that Organic Whole Milk Powder has started to appear on the list of ingredients on the back of G&B bars. This was never there before, and, not eating dairy, I was concerned, so I checked out its website. Sure enough, Green & Black's has changed the labelling of its organic dark chocolate bars, and now lists milk as an ingredient in its previously-labelled ‘vegan' dark chocolate bars. So they're not, and never were, vegan or necessarily dairy-free after all!

The company states that: 'there is no change to the dark chocolate recipe but since both the milk chocolate and dark chocolate bars are made using the same production line there is a risk of cross contact. A recent audit revealed that traces of milk residues can still be found on manufacturing equipment despite intensive cleaning.'

It's good of G&B, which takes its ethical commitments seriously, to highlight such concerns - and a spokesman went on to say that "we feel there is no added risk to milk allergy sufferers". But the news is bound to send vegans, dairy-free snackers and people with an allergy to milk searching for new choccy fixes (check out www.greenandblacks.com/uk/newsview.php for more details).

But back to my love affair with chocolate.

My break up with Green & Blacks was tough, and on the re-bound I dabbled in numerous supermarket own brands and vegan carob bars (I'm not vegan, but often buy vegan products because they're dairy-free).

None of them made me fall head-over-heels in love, or even sparked the flame of desire in the way Green & Black's did, until I clapped eyes on dark, rich and handsome Montezuma.

It was love at first sight. I discovered the Montezuma's shop in Brighton and I was like a, well, like a kid in a candy store, filling my basket with yummy-looking bars, tins of drinking chocolates, chocolate animal shapes, choc covered fruit (the Grand Marnier Apricots are to-die-for), giant buttons, cooking chocolate, nut-filled blocks and more.

I later discovered that you can order the chocolate online (www.montezumas.co.uk) so now every few months I spend an hour browsing, drooling and clicking - and if you request it at checkout, your order comes in a lovely cardboard box filled with tissue paper and tied with a ribbon for added 'oooooh' value.

The web site is a dream to use - you can search for certain categories, such as 'dark' for all the dark chocolate treats or specific ingredients, such as 'ginger'. Each product listed features a full list of ingredients, as well as a table of key symbols, such as 'GM free'; 'Soya Free'; 'Organic' and 'Gluten Free.

I can't get enough of the Dainty Dollops (spoon sized chocolate choc drops of various flavours and the gift-boxed 'cheeky bunnies'.

The firm was set up by ex-lawyers, and husband-and-wife team, Helen and Simon Pattinson, in Brighton in 2000. All their chocolate is made in West Sussex, so the products are UK-made and ethical, as well as delicious.

These days, me and Monte are an item - BFFs in fact.

I have to admit though, I'm not always faithful. What can I say? I'm a total floozy.

I also love Tesco's Organic Plain Chocolate and its Finest Organic Peruvian Plain Chocolate, which are both nice and bitter, as well as Marks & Spencer's smooth and creamy (thanks to generous use of vanilla) Organic Fairtrade Dark Chocolate with 72 per cent cocoa solids.

I sometimes get bored with dark chocolate, but thanks to The Nutmeg health food shop on Lombard Street in Belfast's city centre, I've also made several dates with Organic Expressions Dairy-Free alternative to milk chocolate (which uses sunflower, rather than soya, lecithin). It's not got that Dairy Milk texture or taste, but if, like me, you're a promiscuous kinda chocolate-eater and yearn for variety, then it makes a good, and novel, alternative to dark chocolate.

It was thanks to The Nutmeg that I also discovered a snack bar, the Organica vegan Hazelnut Nougat & Dark Chocolate bar, which is as close to a Mars bar as all dairy-avoiding chocolate lovers and vegans are ever going to get.