Chocolate is a Vegetable:
Chocolate is derived from cocoa beans. Bean=vegetable.

Sugar is derived from either sugar CANE or sugar BEETS.
Both are plants, which places them in the vegetable category.

Thus, chocolate is a vegetable. To go one step further,
chocolate candy bars also contain milk, which is dairy.
So candy bars are a health food.



Chocolate-covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries
all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.

If you've got melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly.

How to get 2 pounds of chocolate home from the store in a hot car.
The solution: Eat it in the parking lot.

Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal.
It'll take the edge off your appetite, and you'll eat less.

If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate,
is that a balanced diet? Don't they actually counteract each other?

Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger.

Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today.
That way, at least you'll get one thing done.

A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Now, isn't that handy? If not for chocolate, there would be no need for control top pantyhose. An entire garment industry would be devastated. You can't let that happen, can you?

REMEMBER: "STRESSED" spelled backward is "DESSERTS"

Send this to four chocolate lovers and you will lose two pounds. Send this to all the chocolate lovers you know (or ever knew), and you will lose 10 pounds. If you delete this message, you will gain 10 pounds immediately.

That's why I had to pass this on -- I didn't want to risk it

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DOUBLE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
Okay Chocolate Lovers...here is what you've been waiting for...
These are simply the Best!

1 cup butter
1-1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups flour
2/3 cup cocoa
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 cups chocolate chips

Preheat oven 350º Mix butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla until light and fluffy. Add flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt. Mix until well blended. Fold in chocolate chips. Place on cookie sheet and bake 8-10 minutes.

Thanks to Happy Cooker Tera Clounch for this recipe.

Chef Bear and I agree...these cookies
and absolutely wonderful!