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Vending Machines: What Are Your Favorite Letter/Number Combinations?

By on May 22, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating with Family and Friends, Food for Fun and Thought, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Travel, On Vacation, In the Car

Sooner or later you’ll have your next sharing moment with a vending machine – you share your money and the machine shares its calories. Vending machines are everywhere – down the hall from your office or around the corner from your hotel room, in hospital waiting rooms, in train stations, and calling your name on [...]

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Are Your Snacks The Equivalent Of Another Meal?

By on May 17, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating on the Job, Food for Fun and Thought, Lose 5 Pounds in 5 Weeks, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

We chow down on a lot of snack food — a quarter of our calories come from them! Snacks account for more than 25% of Americans’ daily calorie intake; since the 1970s, snacks have accounted for around 580 calories a day — which basically turns them into “a full eating event,” or a fourth meal. [...]

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Buffet Table Woes? Keep Your Back To The Table

By on January 23, 2013 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Entertaining, Buffets, Parties, Events, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

Whether it’s a fancy catered affair or pizza, wings, and cold cuts laid out on the kitchen and coffee tables on game day, why give yourself extra opportunities to shovel chips and dip or salami and cheese into your mouth all night long? You’re human, so stay out of hand-to-mouth range – and don’t stare [...]

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Are You A Smart Snacker When You’re Out Shopping?

By on December 26, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Holidays, Manage Your Weight, Shopping, Cooking, Baking, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

There are food courts and coffee shops around every bend and on every corner – and all of them seem to sell peppermint and gingerbread goodies that scream, “Holiday.”  That can really test your willpower. A hot skim latte is a great snack – soothing, calorie controlled, with a nice amount of protein.  A nice [...]

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It’s The Holiday Nibbling That Will Get You!

By on November 29, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Holidays, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

Most of those waistline hugging, thigh bulging holiday calories don’t come from the “day of” huge holiday meals but from unrelenting nibbling over the holiday season. It’s way too easy to add on an extra 500 calories a day over and above your average daily calorie needs.  An additional 500 calories a day translates into packing [...]

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Snacks: Are They Your Fourth Meal?

By on February 21, 2012 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Eating on the Job, Manage Your Weight, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Travel, On Vacation, In the Car

Why can a day’s worth of snacks be considered a fourth meal?  Because, according to research, snacking accounts for more than 25% of Americans’ calorie intake everyday. How Many Calories Do We Snack On A Day? Between 1977 and 2006 Americans averaged about 580 calories each day for their snacks — which basically turned those [...]

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How Many Teaspoons Of Sugar Are In Raisins?

By on September 29, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

Who hasn’t grabbed one of those small red boxes of raisins?  They’re a great portable snack – or are they? Raisins are dried grapes.  The good news is that raisins are very low in saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium. They’re about 3.5% dietary fiber and 3% protein by weight. The bad news is that a [...]

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How About Some Popsicle Trivia?

By on August 19, 2011 in Food for Fun and Thought, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting, Takeout, Prepared Food, Junk Food

The Popsicle And Serendipity By accident, on a cold night in San Francisco in 1905, an 11 year old left a powdered soda drink on the porch with a stirring stick still in it. The next morning there was this amazing frozen sweet stuff on a stick.  Years later, Frank W. Epperson, the lucky kid, [...]

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How Many Calories Top Your Ice Cream Sundae?

By on August 16, 2011 in Calorie Tips, Healthy Eating, Food Facts, Manage Your Weight, Shopping, Cooking, Baking, Snacking, Noshing, Tasting

Do You Like Your Ice Cream Naked Or With Toppings? Sometimes there’s nothing better than an ice cream sundae. Sundaes can be made with just about anything and I freely admit that my favorite part is the stuff you put on top of ice cream, not the ice cream itself. So Many Choices You can [...]

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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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