I want to pack these stuffed dates in their lunch boxes for a snack, but I know they won’t eat them. I’ve tried sending dried fruits and nuts before but they came back. Alex accused me of ruining his life. He claims that eating cockroach-looking dried fruit at recess is beyond embarrassing. I thought bugs were cool.
I hear you son, if my mother had tried to send me one of those Moroccan marzipan-stuffed dates in my lunchbox, instead of choco (a popular Israeli chocolate-milk-in-a-plastic-bag), I would be absolutely mortified. 


Did I really think that covering dates with chocolate would make them less hostile and more kid friendly. The only way to make them more appealing to those store-bought-snack-deprived boys would be to commercially package them in a noisy wrapper. They claim that they are the only ones in school who don’t have a real snack. A “real snack,” ironically, means “in a crinkly bag,” like potato chips, Doritos, or a yucky, overly-sweet granola bar. So I say, “Well…When you are eighteen, you can eat whatever you want,” or, “No wonder most of the kids now are overweight.”
If you add a dash of salt and ground coffee beans to the chocolate you’ll have a serious treat.Keep in mind that the dates are very sweet so it’s better to coat them in very dark chocolate (at least 70% cocoa.) You can stuff them with any nut of your choice – pecan, almond, or hazelnut (toasted is tastier).

If you have leftovers of melted chocolate you can make these. All you have to do is to dot a hip teaspoon of chocolate on a baking sheet, top with hazelnuts and refrigerate until the chocolate is solid, about  20 minutes. 

Medjool bugs