~ Chocolate is a Vegetable: Chocolate is derived from cocoa beans. Bean = vegetable. Sugar is derived from either sugar CANE or sugar BEETS. Both are plants, which places them in the vegetable category. Thus, chocolate is a vegetable.

~ To go one step further, chocolate candy bars also contain milk, which is dairy. So candy bars are a health food. Chocolate-covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.

~ If you've got melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly. The problem: How to get 2 pounds of chocolate home from the store in a hot car. The solution: Eat it in the parking lot.

~ Diet Tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It'll take the edge off your appetite, and you'll eat less.

~ If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced diet? Don't they actually counteract each other?

~ Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger.

~ Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done.

~ A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Now, isn't that handy?


That's my story and I'm sticking to it. :thumbup:

What fun - I knew I loved chocolate for a reason!

I so believe EVERY word in this post!!!!

would so love to find any chocolate today!

Love dark chocolate. My SIL brought me gift of Dark Chocolate covered Coffee Beans. Oh so good, I have been on a caffine high all day.

Wiseman House, in Hico, Tx, sells the best chocalate... My favorite is Mocha Crunch....delicious dark chocolate with premium ground coffee beans mixed in it.....yummmmmmmyyyyy!!!!!

Amen (rofl).

I knew I liked Chocolate for a reason.

:)

LOL I'm going to put that on a plaque and hang it in my sewing room!

I love those things too! I have to be careful to only eat a few at a time. Just a tablespoon of whole coffee beans makes almost a full mug of coffee, so even a small handful of chocolate-covered ones will pack a punch (and there's caffeine in chocolate, too!). The crunch of those coffee beans is soooo addictive, though!

Also, calories are afraid of hights. If you put your chocolate on top of the fridge for 5 min., the calories commit suicide by jumping out of the candy and off the fridge. Then you can consume the chocolate guilt free. lol

You tell it girl!

Excuse me while I grab a bite!!! :lol:

love it...lol

I have a Dr's appt. next week and need to show her this to prove I am eating right. LOL!!!

Awesome.

I am so jealous! I cannot eat chocolate nor can I have coffee. It gives me palpitations for hours. But I can read and relate because I used to love chocolate and ate tons of it (so glad I did too because I have memories of the delicious richness of it!). I also spent summers across from a coffee plantation so had lots of experience with dark rich delicious coffee freshly roasted. Yum!!
So guys, write on so I can vicariously enjoy your pleasures.

Hey...I'll buy into this one! LOL!

Thank you for the info, I do like to get my facts straight and dipped in chocolate is so delightful.

That perfectly fits to my theory!!! A milk chocolate bar with almonds is a well rounded meal!! Dairy, vegetable (I didn't put that in with theory at first, but now I can!!) and protein!! Sounds like lunch to me!!! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

"I could give up chocolate but I'm not a quitter!" :)

Whew what a relief I was afraid I wasn't eating enough veggies :-) But I always start the day with 1/2 of a candy bar with nuts for the protein and dairy now I'll have part of my veggies taken care of too. What a bonus :-)

works for me!

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.. gimme chocolate and no one gets hurt LOL !!!!!!

The only thing that makes chocolate better is............MORE CHOCOLATE!!!! (And possibly if someone could figure out a way to wrap freshly made chocolate around freshly brewed [and still hot!] freshly ground coffee...)...

Like I have said before "I am addicted to M&Ms."

if you break the chocolate, the calories leak out and therefore broken chocolate is calorie free

When "stressed", the logical solution to counteract the stress is to have chocolate.

STRESSED spelled backwards is DESSERTS!!!

I am so glad to know that. Another thing to do is eat the chocolate and then jump up and down three times so the calories will fall out of your feet. froggyintexas

Here is a fun fact: I just found a Hersheys with Almonds in my cabinet...and I ate it. YUMMM....

I think I will stick to that story also!

remember to eat you vegetables

LOL!!! Everyday....several times a day!!!

Sounds good to me! LOL

Can I dip them in chocolate? :)

LOL! Chocolate comes from a bean, therefore, it is a vegetable!!! And veggies are good for you; eat all you want!
:lol: ;) :twisted:

I have always said chocolate is a vegie because it comes from a coco bean. I liked your article. Thank you :XD:

Dark Chocolate is good for you...I wish my Dr. believed me...