I saw this quote in the NY Times today and I couldn’t help but laugh out loud: “The 100-calorie snack is this decade’s answer to the fat-free SnackWell cookie…”
With everything from 100 calorie packs of Doritos to Reese’s and now even Twinkies, it’s almost as if people think it’s okay to eat anything as long as it’s in a 100 calorie pack. That’s not to say 100 calories of twinkies isn’t better than a couple hundred calories, but a whole twinkie only has 150 calories. If you ate a Twinkie, you’d probably feel as if you indulged; you might even think twice about what other junk you were eating the rest of the day. Yet, the 100 calorie pack lets you justify anything you eat without any feelings of remorse. So, beware. If you fell into the trap with Snackwells, where you assumed you could eat as many as you wanted because they were fat-free, you probably learned the hard way that that wasn’t true. The same holds true for the 100 calorie pack. So, use caution when buying and eating….