It’s a universally accepted fact that
should circumstance necessitate a hasty and preferably unseen raid on the
biscuit barrel, you should always pick the broken one … or ones…
Calorie leakage.
That’s a thing, right?
Like the way the debris at the bottom of a bag of chips doesn’t count as food. And the obvious truism that any of the
edible matter you absentmindedly pop into your mouth while making school
lunches or preparing dinner, or indeed, when preparing any sort of foodstuff to
be consumed by anyone other than yourself, doesn’t count as something worthy of
recording in a daily food diary.
Pfft.
Of course not.
Surely even those food-tasters for Hitler and
the ones allegedly employed by various alleged American presidents still ate proper meals. Gosh darn it, as far as
I’m concerned, nobody deserves better quality poison-free meals than MY family
and friends.
Anyway, over the years I’ve garnered a few other
interesting diet-related verities:
- if it’s green, it counts as vegetable
- if it’s a vegetable it doesn’t count as carb
- if it’s liquid and doesn’t contain Coke or milk, it counts as water.
And just this past weekend, my significant
other introduced me to another such food fact.
He was, as he so frequently
does, consuming his brunch – which in this case was a hearty chunk of sourdough
toast lavishly heaped with avocado, tomato and fresh basil – while standing
looking out the kitchen window.
I have always, foolishly I now discover,
assumed that the motivation for this manner of eating was his deep-seated
desire to conserve energy. Eliminate the need to fetch and then wash a plate by
allowing the crumbs and debris to fall directly into the sink.
But no.
Apparently, the calories go right down the
sink with the fall-out.
Who knew?
Oh, plus apparently if you don’t put salt
on the tomato, it increases the nutritional value.
Genius.
So help me out.
What amazing diet-related facts have you discovered?
