Reflections of a Dinner Eaten

So as we were sitting in the bliss of having enjoyed yet another great dinner at home together we said to ourselves, "selves lets have some dessert!" Having just gone to the store for some much needed supplies and a few other sundry things, choosing a dessert was easy COOKIES! We munched on the fudge covered chocolate chip cookies in cocoa bliss and then we made a mistake. We looked at the food label.

This got us to comparing the two things that we had just eaten, a salad with some meat and cookies and we came to a somewhat startling conclusion. There were more calories in the three cookies that we ate than in our entire dinner. Talk about a calorie dense food.

Here is another Morsel of food for thought:

There are as many calories in those three cookies as there are in three Idaho potatoes. Can you eat a pound and a half of potato or an ounce and a half of cookie? If you can good for you, there's toilet paper next to the commode. (and a magazine if you so desire.) What does this teach us? Its good to know what you eat and where it came from, it makes us healthier. And the other lesson of the day, when enjoying a cookie, just enjoy it for what its worth and don't look at the label. Well actually you should look at labels.