posted on August 27, 2001 08:54:12 AM newIt's Monday, and we have GOOD NEWS!!
1) Chocolate is a vegetable. How, you ask? Chocolate is derived from cocoa beans. Beans are a vegetable. Sugar is derived from either sugar CANE or sugar BEETS.
Both are plants, which places them in the vegetable category. Thus, chocolate is a vegetable.
2) To go one step further, chocolate candy bars also contain milk, which is dairy. So candy bars are a health food.
3) Chocolate covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.
4) If you've got melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly.
5) The problem: How to get 2 pounds of chocolate home from the store in a hot car. The solution: Eat it in the parking lot. No brainer!!
6) Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It'll take the edge off your appetite, and you'll eat less.
7)If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced diet? Don't they actually counteract each other? (I'm sure)
8) Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger. Therefore, you need to eat more chocolate.
9) Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done
10) A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Now, isn't that handy?
11) If you can't eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer. But if you can't eat all your chocolate, what's wrong with you?
12) If not for chocolate, there would be no need for control top pantyhose. An entire garment industry would be devastated. You can't let that happen, can you?
13) As a chocoholic, I am on my own version of a 12 step program - I'm never more than 12 steps away from some chocolate
posted on August 27, 2001 09:46:35 AM new
I keep a bag of Hersey's Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips in the freezer. A great pick-me-up a handful at a time. It irks the hell out of my wife, she's diabetic. I'll made a face like I've taken some bad medicine after I eat some to try and make it easy for her. Somehow I don't think she's falling for that routine, she thinks I'm rubbing it in.
When I was a living in Venezuela we used cocoa bean hulls as a mulch for the lawn, and shrubs. Somedays you'd walk outside and the whole world smelled like a Hersey bar, it would force a smile on your face. One of those smells that brings back sweet memories.
Those cocoa bean hulls are available here, too, although I don't think widely available.
I have a friend who uses them as mulch and it looks very nice.
Speaking of chocolate...my weekend company brought me a box of chocolates handmade in the Adirondack Mountains, Candy Man Home Made Adirondack Chocolates, Jay, NY.
posted on August 28, 2001 12:55:31 AM new
Wow this is very good news, thank you for sharing this most important piece of information with us.
Did you know that vegies do not count as points on the WW 123 diet, so if chocolate is a vegetable that means I can still have as much as I want. This makes me a very happy girl.
posted on August 28, 2001 06:10:27 AM new
Tip from my mom: After eating chocolate, drink a diet Pepsi (or diet soda of your choice) - it cancels the calories.
posted on August 29, 2001 03:40:28 AM new
Chocolate is my drug of choice, too. I can always tell when my husband's annual hunting trip is coming up...he starts buying me the large Hershey's with almonds.
The kids have caught on to this. I know when my teen has gotten a speeding ticket or flunked a test...all by the amount and type of chocolate she spontaneously brings home to dear old Mom. Once she brought me Godiva Chocolate Truffles. I screamed, "OMG, you're pregnant!" She said, "Mom, it's your birthday. Geez. Now, about the dent in the car..."
