Well, since that darn little ground hog saw his shadow yesterday and scampered back in his hole for 6 more weeks, I'm sulking and being depressed with the thought of more snow and cold weather. The best thing to do when sulking and being depressed is to eat chocolate, so that is exactly what I am doing! And with that thought, I'm posting some fun Chocolate facts and hope that they lift everyone's spirits a little bit.
Little Known Chocolate Facts
-Chocolate is derived from cocoa beans. Bean = 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.
-To go one step further, chocolate candy bars also contain milk, which is a dairy product. So candy bars are a health food.
-Chocolate-covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit; so eat as many as you want.
-If you've got melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly.
-Problem: How to get two pounds of chocolate home from the store in a hot car. The solution: Eat it in the parking lot.
-Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It'll take the edge off your appetite, and you'll eat less.
-If calories are an issue, store your chocolate on top of the fridge. Calories are afraid of heights, and they will jump out of the chocolate to protect themselves. (This is being tested on other snack products as well.)
-If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced diet? Don't they actually counteract each other?
-Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger. Therefore, you need to eat more chocolate.
-Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done.
-A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Now, isn't that handy?
-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?
-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?
NEWS FLASH: "Stressed" spelled backward is "desserts." So, to reverse being "stressed" . . . . CHOCOLATE!!
Now, don't you feel better. I do, but I've been eating chocolate while I've been typing.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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3 comments:
Thank you for these wonderful facts! I knew there was a good reason I was addicted to chocolate!
Wow I am glad to hear chocolate is so good for us!!! Guess I will have to start eating more.
Now those are my kind of facts! Just what I like to hear! Do you know any good "healthy" facts for Dr Pepper? I'm bummed about 6 more weeks of summer too! :(
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