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

[SadieKate]

I couldn't resist. I just had to add it to the list.

The calories don't count when it is to solve a grammar or spelling question.

[TsPoet]

Anybody get my favorite - if you eat half.
If you eat 1/2 of a cookie, you can subtract the calories in the 1/2 not eaten from the half you eat and come out with 0.
The math works, it really does.

[uk elephant]

I generally don't count calories, but always have an excuse for eating stuff that probably has a lot of them ....
ice cream - my main source of calcium
chocolate - full of antioxidants, good for preventing heart disease and osteoporosis and a few other things and if it's milk chocolate that means more calcium
chips/crisps - I sweat just going up stairs so I'm sure I need more salt in my diet.
apple pie - part of the 5 fruits a day...and an apple a day keeps the doctor away or so they say...make it a-la-mode and you've covered the dairy category too.

[MomOnBike]

When my pre-school daughter discovered that Big Sister was learning subtraction and division, she had to learn these neat things too. Wanting to make things easier for her, I pulled out the chocolate chips & showed her all about division and subtraction. (we grouped 3's and 5's for division & then subtracted into our mouths)

When you are teaching math to your far-too-smart-for-her-own-good preschool daughter the chocolate chips consumed in the process have no calories.

[DrBee]

I generally don't count calories, but always have an excuse for eating stuff that probably has a lot of them ....
ice cream - my main source of calcium
chocolate - full of antioxidants, good for preventing heart disease and osteoporosis and a few other things and if it's milk chocolate that means more calcium
chips/crisps - I sweat just going up stairs so I'm sure I need more salt in my diet.
apple pie - part of the 5 fruits a day...and an apple a day keeps the doctor away or so they say...make it a-la-mode and you've covered the dairy category too.

Ditto on the ice cream and chocolate. I use those excuses too often. I used the sweating excuse for eating copious amounts of fritos and blackbean and corn salsa last weekend after a ride in 85F heat and about 90% humidity. Oh, they were good.

Here's another excuse: Hershey's Take5 bar... It's a balanced snack. There's salt on the pretzel for replacing loss from sweating while riding, and hey - pretzels are supposed to be good for you, right???, protein in the peanut butter than ran by the candy bar, the chocolate is good for you for reasons UK stated above, and the caramel..... well.... the jury's still out on that one.

[cinderly]

The caramel prevents your blood sugar from dropping too low as a result of exertion.

[DrBee]

Sweeeeet Cinderly! That's a good one.

I'm preventing heart disease and osteoporosis right now...

[margo49]

On Shabbat calories don't count.