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7 Things You Never Knew About Candy Corn

By on October 26, 2012 in Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays

It’s candy corn time!  Those little tri-colored triangles have celebrated over 130 birthdays and are still going strong.  Here are 7 things you probably never knew about candy corn: 1.  Candy corn was created in the 1880s by George Renninger of the Wunderlee Candy Company. It was quite popular among farmers who loved the corn [...]

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3 Tips To Avoid Pre-Halloween Sugar Overload

By on October 24, 2012 in Holidays, Manage Your Weight, Shopping, Cooking, Baking

Halloween conjures up images of ghosts, ghouls, witches – and candy corn, tootsie rolls, snickers, and kit-kats.  The Halloween costumes vary depending on what’s trendy – and the Halloween candy varies depending on what’s on sale, what you buy, what you like or dislike, and what makes it’s way into the house in trick or [...]

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Do You Swipe Candy From Your Kid’s Trick Or Treat Bag?

By on October 19, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating with Family and Friends, Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

If you do, you can start shedding your guilt because you’re certainly not alone. Let’s put it another way:  Is it almost a foregone conclusion that there’s Halloween candy in your future? The candy assault on your senses is pretty hard to escape.   It’s everywhere in glowing Technicolor on shelf after shelf in big box stores, [...]

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What Do You Eat On A Road Trip?

By on August 15, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food, Travel, On Vacation, In the Car

Have you noticed that a lot of renovated gas stations now have mini-marts or convenience stores with clean(er) bathrooms and coffee that comes regular or decaf but also dark velvet, hazelnut, and vanilla? Are Gas Stations The New Convenience Stores? Convenience stores sell about 80& of the gasoline purchased in the United States each year. [...]

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Peanut, Almond, Peanut Butter, Plain Or Even Pretzel M&M’s: Would They Be Your Choice?

By on April 13, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating on the Job, Food for Fun and Thought, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

On a road trip?  Stuck in an airport?   Is a vending machine calling your name? You’ve decided you need a snack.  Decision made:  it’s going to be candy – and it’s going to be M&M’s.  After all, M&M’s mean melt in your mouth, not in your hand – and who wants melted chocolate all over [...]

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Jelly Beans: What Kind Is Your Favorite?

By on March 22, 2012 in Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

Don’t you love those little nuggets of jelly bean sweetness that come in multitudes of colors and flavors and get stuck in your teeth? Their gummy insides probably stretch back centuries ago from the treat, Turkish Delight.  Their outsides are just like the colored hard candy coating, developed in the late 17th century, for the [...]

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What Does Your Favorite Candy Heart Say?

By on February 7, 2012 in Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

“Be Mine,” “Kiss me,”  “Sweet Talk.” Sweethearts Conversation Hearts, the small heart-shaped pastel colored candy with the familiar sayings have been a Valentine’s Day treat since 1902. Their manufacturer, NECCO, the New England Confectionery Company, in business since 1847, produces more than 8 billion of the candy conversation hearts a year. In the 1860’s the [...]

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How Much Walking Do You Need To Do To Walk Off Halloween Candy?

By on October 27, 2011 in Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

Here’s another way to think about Halloween candy — how much walking will it take to work off the calories in each piece? These are some of the calculations from walking.com: 1 Fun Size candy bar (Snickers, Milky Way, Butterfingers, etc. comes to 80 calories. You will need to walk 0.8 miles, 1.29 kilometers, or [...]

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How Much Halloween Candy Will You End Up Eating?

By on October 25, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

Is it almost a foregone conclusion that there’s Halloween candy in your future?  It’s pretty hard to escape because it’s everywhere –  on desks, in restaurants, even in my veterinarian’s office in a nice purple bowl with a dog bone painted on the side. Halloween and the week afterward accounts for about 5% of all [...]

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Peanut, Almond, Peanut Butter Or Plain M&M’s: Which Would You Choose?

By on August 11, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating on the Job, Shopping, Cooking, Baking, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

On a road trip?  Stuck in an airport?   Is a vending machine calling your name? You’ve decided you need a snack.  Decision made:  it’s going to be candy – and it’s going to be M&M’s.  Afterall, M7M’s mean melt in your mouth, not in your hand – and who wants melted chocolate all over the [...]

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