Chocolate Eating Lessons

Eat the dark chocolate: As popular as milk chocolate is, it’s the dark chocolate that’s healthful. What gives chocolate its trove of amazing health properties is the cocoa itself. And, if you had to guess … how many GRAINS of cocoa do you suppose there to be in standard...

Chocolate Eating Lessons

With an estimated 1.1 billion pounds of chocolate to be sold and consumed this Valentine’s Day, I know I’ll make chocolate lovers happy to know that chocolate can actually be a virtue, not a vice. If you find the right kind of chocolate, and consume it using healthful eating...

How to Screw Up Your Diet: 10. Go For The Glo

Focus on foods that gets your attention. If it doesn’t grab your eye RIGHT off the bat, it’s really not trying hard enough. So find foods that look like they come from outer space. Think day-glo pink, and neon orange. Those nuclear-yellow marshmallow “peeps” are an ideal screw-up-your-diet food....

Chicken Corn and Tomato Chowder

  You’ll Need:   3 pounds chicken, cut up   1 medium onion, chopped   1 teaspoon poultry seasoning   16 ounce can corn (reserve liquid)   16 ounce can whole tomatoes drained and cut up   1 teaspoon lemon juice   Salt   Pepper   Directions:   In...

How to Screw Up Your Diet: 9. Practice Gastro-Physics

There is a scientific secret to your diet. Don’t tell any one!! If you eat a candy bar, you can always annihilate it with diet products. Shhhh. Diet sodas and Snickers, as you know, are dietary matter and anti-matter. Thus, they cancel each other out. So if you have...

How to Screw Up Your Diet: 8. Bite The Big One

Take Monster bites. Think Huge. Think Anaconda. All together now!! If you feel that you may have to unhinge your jaws, you’re doing it right. How much can you fit in there anyway? Squirrel-packing your cheek pockets puts more food in that handy cheek-storage, which will allow you to...

Easy Szechuan Chicken

You’ll Need: 4 halves of chicken breasts, skinned   3 Tablespoons cornstarch   1 Tablespoon vegetable oil   3 cloves garlic, minced   5 Tablespoons soy sauce   1 ½ Tablespoons white-wine vinegar   1 teaspoon sugar   ½ cup water   6 green onions cut into inch pieces...

How to Screw Up Your Diet: 7. Size Does Matter

Pursue platter portions. Serve meals on the largest plate you own. Turn over a garbage can lid if you have to, and make sure to completely fill the space with whatever you can ladle onto it. And if you you eat tons and tons of DIET food, all the...

How to Screw Up Your Diet: 6. Lose Your Mind

Lose your mind. Eat at your desk, alone, doing your job as you mindlessly eat and eat. Eat while watching TV at night, so you can be distracted by the latest episode of “The Biggest Loser.” The most important thing here is to never become aware of your food,...

How to Screw Up Your Diet: 5. Eat on the GO

Eat on the go. You can eat it in your carYou can eat it on your feetYou can eat where ever you areAnd you’ll never be replete Listen, just keep moving so you burn the calories as you shovel them in. Eating in a rush and huff is fantastic...

How to Screw Up Your Diet: 4. Eat All The Time

Eat all the time. Really. Graze. Think bovine thoughts. Moo once in a while if you have to. Once you start chomping, you’ll get a little mouth momentum working, and you can just go with it. Start with five to six small meals, and work up from there. Again,...

How to Screw Up Your Diet: 3. Find The Food Condoms

Find the food condoms Plastic-wrapped food is what you’re seeking. Remember that plastic is all modern, and new. YOU want to modern and new, so let’s get with the program!! If it’s found in a pre-packaged form, eat it. If you have no idea how long it has been...