Some things I just don’t need to know!

I have three rules about eating dessert:

1. Eating while standing up in my kitchen reduces or eliminates the calories.

2. Anything that I take a bite of that belongs to my children or my husband has no calories.

3. This one is universal. If I eat something fattening, it can be canceled out by eating or drinking something that is sugar free.

So here I am just minding my own business when I get an email newsletter about Easter.

Sure, all those chocolate Easter bunnies, jelly beans, and marshmallow chicks look cute and harmless, but watch out! The calories in these Easter goodies add up quick. For example:

1 chocolate covered marshmallow egg: 100 calories
25 small jellybeans: 140 calories
1 small chocolate bunny (1 ounce): 140 calories
5 Peeps: 160 calories
8 malted milk eggs: 170 calories
1 Cadbury creme egg: 170 calories
1 Cadbury caramel egg: 190 calories
1 large chocolate bunny (7 ounces) 1050 calories

I really didn’t need to know that … but how many calories do you think just the chocolate ear is worth?

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