The calories don't count when . . . . .

[Eden]

who needs an excuse? I rationalize everything! Especially when it comes to sushi, indian food, and ice cream........

who needs to rationalize sushi - fish-rice-wasabi its yummy and good for you!

[Melody]

Ooh, how about pumpkin pie? If the dog gets the crust, the pie is probably negative calories.

Mmmm pumpkin pie...

Every year for Thanksgiving I go all out for dinner. Turkey, ham, beef, mashed potatoes, veggies, etc... and I bake anywhere from 10 to 20 pumpkin pies since I have family and friends who request a pie or two. Unfortunately since I can only get fresh pumpkins around that point in time I only make them during Thanksgiving but they're sooooooooooo good. They taste different from most other pumpkin pies due to the addition of maple syrup and the consistency is silkier since I use a food mill to make the puree instead of a food processor.

I'm thinking pie now though. :/

Mel who's waiting for her sister for lunch.

[nuthatch]

So hungry and stuck at work! Stop, you temptresses!

[caligurl]

UGH! but THEY DO COUNT! which is why i'm the only cyclist who has GAINED weight since taking up cycling! cuz i need to eat so i don't bonk.... but now i'm getting FAT!

(tommy's, in n out, pat and oscar breadsticks and coldstone don't count as long as you rode that day... right??????? ya ya ya.... i KNOW! )

[Hell-uv-a-job]

If I see a nice looking brownie wrapped on plastic paper with no serving size or calorie information on the wrapper I asumme it does not have any calories.

[Hell-uv-a-job]

You are eating fruit pie (apple, cherries, etc.) since you need 5 servings of fruit a day. You can actually have 5 servings of pie.

[CorsairMac]

You are eating fruit pie (apple, cherries, etc.) since you need 5 servings of fruit a day. You can actually have 5 servings of pie.

hang on here - this could work....if I put whipped cream on my fruit pies or better yet, eat the fruit pies with ice cream, that should get in yet another one of those food pyramid thingie requirements right??

[caligurl]

well... if you are gonna think like that... ice cream is a DAIRY!

[nancielle]

Calories don't count on Sundays.
Calories don't count if you freeze the item (like a Snickers bar or M&Ms), freezes the calories right out of 'em.
Or is that sundaes?

[DirtDiva]

It's both of 'em.

[snapdragen]

Broken cookies have no calories.

[Duck on Wheels]

And, chocolate is brown. Mushrooms are brown. Mushrooms are a vegetable with very few calories. Obviously, then, chocolate is a vegetable with very few calories!

That's another one I've heard before -- that calories from anything brown don't count. That one and the evening-out-the-crooked-cut-pie one. Also a third: that they don't count if you're just finishing off those left-over bits that aren't enough for another meal and therefore not worth fridge space. After all, throwing out food is a sin, right?

[fultzie]

yep, that's why brown sugar is healthier than regular sugar!

and second-hand calories don't count... especially if you swipe the fries/ cookie/ milkshake off of your friend/ brother's tray.

or if someone makes you a meal as a treat. that doesn't count.

and you *have* to eat the broken brownies/ cookies/ chips! they're *broken*! you can't subject some other poor person to eating the broken bits.

i spin with a group on sunday mornings, and then we make chocolate chip pancakes with syrup/ real bacon/ scrambled eggs in the bacon grease/ mimosas/ coffee... that doubly doesn't count, because it's sunday and we did a spinervals video!

[Lise]

fries don't count if everyone around you has some (like tonight).

I like the "negative calories" if you give the pie crust to the dog.

My sister said "milk chocolate" was a dairy product when she was pregnant...but her babies weighed 9# 3oz (a month premature) and 10# 6oz respectively .

Let's see...dark chocolate is good for your heart, no calories there. Whole grains don't have calories, as we all know. Ummmm...no way can soy milk have calories. Definitely, caffeine-free diet Coke is a calorie eliminator...if you're working all night, nothing you eat has calories...M&Ms are a vitamin if eaten at 4AM after delivering a baby...

Oh, man, is it time for me to go to bed! L.

[MomOnBike]

Of course, if you bike to the meal, the calories don't count. (Even if the greasy spoon joint you are going to is only 1 mile away - downhill.)