Holidays and Chocolate
It's certainly not a
surprise that chocolate is a favorite choice for any holiday. Spring time or Easter celebrations are no exceptions. I confess, I've been guilty of nibbling the ears off an innocent chocolate
bunny or two!
One chocolate egg can weigh 105 grams. This will still set you back 555 calories and 32
grams of saturated fat! So much for moderation. That's equal to an entire meal! So if you absolutely have to have an Easter egg, an alternative might be a
Cadbury’s Crème Egg coming in at 163 calories and 6 grams of fat.
Tomorrow I'll give you some hints on how to
moderate eating chocolate.
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Posted by: Monica Reinagel | Mar 22, 2008 10:26:20 AM
Elaine, I think there may have been a slight calculation or labelling error! 105 grams is almost a quarter pound, and that's an awfully big chunk of chocolate!
A small chocolate egg (the foil-wrapped ones ones that are about the size of a jelly bean) weighs about 3 grams and contains 16 calories and less than one gram of fat.
Posted by: Elaine | Mar 24, 2008 12:48:38 PM
Hi Monica,
You’re absolutely right, a small egg is about 3 grams. The sad thing is many people know that one egg (the size of a jelly bean) might not be enough most of the time. So who knows, by the time Easter is over someone could easily eat 105 grams. It seems to happen with a little bite here, and then a little bite there....
We should also be careful and read the serving size on the label. The one egg that I saw just yesterday said a serving size was 1/3 of the egg and it was almost 200 calories for that third!
