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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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Is Your Coffee Or Tea Giving You A Muffin Top?

By on January 17, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Food for Fun and Thought, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

Morning coffee.  Coffee break.  Afternoon tea.  A nice cup after dinner. Many of us love – need – our coffee or tea.  Hot, cold, it doesn’t always matter. But, as you dump sugar and pour cream into mugs, thermoses, and those too hot to touch cardboard take-out containers, have you ever thought about how many [...]

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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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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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Is A Gingerbread Latte Or A Steaming Hot Chocolate Calling Your Name?

By on December 15, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating on the Job, Holidays, Manage Your Weight, Shopping, Cooking, Baking, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

You’ve spent the day shopping – or working – or taking care of the kids – or any combination of the above – and by mid- afternoon you really want a nice, hot satisfying treat.  It’s pretty tough to resist some of the irresistibly named hot and flavorful drinks that Starbuck’s and Dunkin’ Donuts have [...]

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How Many Calories Are You Putting Into Your Coffee?

By on September 27, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating on the Job, Shopping, Cooking, Baking, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

How do you like your coffee?  Black, light and sweet, regular? Coffee Calories Can Sneak Up On You Black brewed coffee has around two calories in an eight ounce cup. Not a bad deal for a nice, hot beverage. What a lot of us fail to realize is how many calories are in the stuff [...]

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The “Power” Of Coffee

By on August 31, 2011 in Eating on the Job, Eating with Family and Friends, Food for Fun and Thought, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food, Travel, On Vacation, In the Car

Most of us recognize the energizing, wake-up character of coffee – but too often we forget its other “power.” A Power Outage Connecticut was hit very hard by hurricane Irene.  As I write this there are still half a million people without power and in an area like mine — a lot of homes have [...]

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Why Not A Non-Fat Caffe Latte?

By on October 8, 2010 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating on the Job, Manage Your Weight, Restaurants, Diners, Fast Food, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

Valley Of Fatigue When I was a kid there was a commercial on TV for Welch’s Grape Juice.  The gist of the commercial was that when you hit your 3 or 4PM energy drain – or what they called the “valley of fatigue” — a nice glass of Welch’s grape juice would help you climb [...]

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Are You Drinking Your Calories?

By on June 22, 2010 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Manage Your Weight, Restaurants, Diners, Fast Food, Travel, On Vacation, In the Car

Lazy, Hazy Days Of Summer It’s summer.  It’s hot.  You’re thirsty.  You want some shade and something cool – or maybe ice cold – to drink. Just remember – a lot of those cool, refreshing drinks come with a hefty dose of calories. Check Out The Calories You might be surprised at the caloric content [...]

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