CHOCOLATE FACTS

If you eat chocolate and no one sees you eat it, it has no calories.

If you drink a diet soda with a chocolate candy bar
the calories in the candy bar are cancelled out by the soda

A nice box of chocolates can provide your total
daily intake of calories in one place. Isn't that handy?
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The Problem: Getting two pounds of chocolate home from the store in hot car.   The Solution: Eat it in the parking lot.

Food used for medicinal purposes NEVER counts, such as hot chocolate, brandy, and Sara Lee Cheesecake.

When you eat chocolate with someone else, calories
don't count if you don't eat more than they do.

Movie related foods (Milk Duds, Junior Mints, Tootsie Rolls, etc.) do not have additional calories because they are part of the entertainment package and not part of one's personal fuel.

Chocolate Cookie pieces contain no fat. The process of breaking causes fat evaporation.

Chocolate - when licked off knives and spoons - has no calories if you are in the process of preparing something.
Examples: chocolate icing licked off a knife,and ice creams or chocolate syrup licked off a spoon while making a sundae.

Foods that have the same color have the same number of calories. Examples: spinach and pistachio ice cream mushrooms and white chocolate, Red peppers and strawberry. NOTE: Chocolate is a universal color and may be substituted for any other food group.

Foods that are frozen have no calories because calories are units of heat. Examples: chocolate ice cream, Eskimo pies, and chocolate covered Popsicles.

Dance Along with The Candies!
Other Interesting Links

www.sweetsmagazine.com
www.travellady.com
www.foodandwine.com
www.foodnetwork.com
www.vosgeschocolate.com

From the Money Pit™ Home Improvement Radio Show

FUN FACT: HOUSES CHEAPER THAN CHOCOLATE?

Did you know that houses are less expensive than fancy chocolates?

The average house weighs about 550,000 pounds and costs about $150,000. That’s only 27 cents per pound, cheaper than chocolate and a lot less fattening. So this Valentines Day – why not just tell your honey that you are skipping the chocolate and save up for a house!

Benifits of Chocolate

www.webmd.com/content/Article/73/81921.htm

http://chinesefood.about.com/od/healthbenefits/a/chocolatetea p.htm

http://chinesefood.about.com/library/weekly/aa013100a.htm

CHOCOLATE EXCUSES

  • Man cannot live by chocolate alone - but woman can!

    Life is uncertain - eat dessert first!

    I'd give up chocolate, but I'm no quitter.

    There is nothing better than a good friend - except a good friend with chocolate.

    A balanced diet consists of items from the five major food groups:
    dairy, grains, meats, fruits/vegetables, and chocolate.

    Coffee.... Chocolate.... Men.... Some things are just better when they're rich!

    Nothing chocolate... nothing gained.

    Anything tastes better dipped in chocolate.

    Nobody knows the truffles I've seen!

    Chocolate: Here today .... Gone today!

    I'll eat anything, as long as it's chocolate.

    There's a theory that chocolate slows down the aging process.
    It may not be true, but do we dare take the chance?

    Just give me the chocolate and no one gets hurt!
  • Top Ten Reasons for eating chocolate:
    1. I love it.
    2. I love it.
    3. I love it.
    4. I love it.
    5. I love it.
    6. I love it.
    7. I love it.
    8. I love it.
    9. I love it.
    10. I love it.

    (On the other hand, who needs an excuse??)

  • I belong to the Chocolate Lovers' 12-Step Program:
    I'm never more than 12 steps from chocolate!


Your Chocolate Age

Don't tell me your age; you probably would tell a falsehood anyway-but the Hershey Man will know!

YOUR AGE BY CHOCOLATE MATH

This is pretty neat and takes less than a minute .

Work this out as you read ...

Be sure you don't read the bottom until you've worked it out!

  1. First of all, pick the number of times a week that you would like to have chocolate (more than once but less than 10)
  2. Multiply this number by 2 (just to be bold)
  3. Add 5
  4. Multiply it by 50 -- I'll wait while you get the calculator. Use the one on the computer!
  5. If you have already had your birthday this year add 1756 .... If you haven't, add 1755.
  6. Now subtract the four digit year that you were born.

You should have a three digit number.

The first digit of this was your original number

(i.e., how many times you want to have chocolate each week).

The next two numbers are

YOUR AGE!