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Is It Coffee Or Chocolate That’s Keeping You Awake?

By on April 2, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

You’ve finished dinner – perhaps you’re stuffed to the gills – and some chocolate along with the check.  It could be those squares nicely wrapped in shiny foil or it could be some chunks of the really dark stuff artfully arranged on a plate. Somehow there magically seems to be some room for the chocolate [...]

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What’s A Chocolate Buzz?

By on August 8, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

I was in a restaurant the other night and the server brought a bunch of those individually wrapped dark chocolates along with the bill.  There were six of us at the table so there was a small pile of the foil wrapped goodies on the table. I watched an almost four year old girl  (who [...]

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Chocolate Eggs And Bunny Ears

By on April 6, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

Oh, those pretty chocolate eggs nesting in baskets on beds of paper straw.  Bunnies and ducks in all shades of chocolate.  Brightly wrapped candy stuffed in plastic eggs for Easter egg hunts.  Chocolate smeared over little kids’ faces and indestructible peeps molded into weird shapes before being popped in the mouth. It’s Easter candy time.  [...]

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A Box Of Chocolates

By on February 9, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

In the US chocolate candy outsells all other types of candy combined, by 2 to 1.  Around seven billion pounds of chocolate candy are manufactured each year in the US and during the week before Valentine’s Day about 1.1 billion boxed chocolates,  about 58 million pounds, will be sold. There are 2300 calories, 140 grams [...]

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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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What’s Sweet, Shaped Like An Egg, And Doesn’t Come From A Chicken?

By on April 21, 2011 in Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Shopping, Cooking, Baking, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

Easter Eggs:  The Confectionary Type They’re everywhere and at every price point.  Some are piped with flowers and others are wrapped in foil.  You find them in supermarkets, discount stores, and fancy candy stores. Easter is the second ranked holiday for candy purchases in the US (just behind Halloween) and solid, hollow, and filled chocolate [...]

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A Chicken Coop – or a Basket – of Chocolate Easter Eggs

By on April 1, 2010 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Holidays, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

Easter Eggs – the Confectionary Type They’re everywhere and at every price point.  Some are piped with flowers and others are wrapped in foil.  You find them in chain stores, discount stores, and at high end chocolatiers. Easter is the second ranked holiday for candy purchases in the United States (just behind Halloween) and solid, [...]

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What’s In Your Easter Basket?

By on March 30, 2010 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Holidays, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

Peeps, Jelly Beans, Chocolate Bunnies and Candy Easter Eggs Easter candy nesting in baskets on beds of paper straw.  Brightly wrapped candy stuffed in plastic eggs for Easter egg hunts.  Chocolate smeared over little kids’ faces and indestructible peeps molded into weird shapes before being popped in the mouth. It’s Easter candy time.  Face it – [...]

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Chocolate Hearts . . .

By on February 12, 2010 in Food for Fun and Thought, Holidays, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

During the week before Valentine’s Day, about 1.1 billion boxed chocolates, that’s about 58 million pounds of chocolate candy, will be sold in the United States. A pound of milk chocolate contains 2300 calories, 140 grams of fat, 270 grams of carbohydrates, and 31 grams of protein. Although a lot has been reported about the [...]

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