Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 16, 2014

Whatever, at least chocolate is still a vegetable.

Wait’ll they find out about granola bars.And bran muffins are no better, and taste like animal feed…. when you consider the fat, sugar, and calories, there’s no reason for continuing the martyrdom.

Sayleigh… LOL…

No worse for you than granola bars or bran muffins… and usually consumed in smaller quantities.

It’s full of theobromine and caffeine. Also thought to trigger endorphins and serotonin…

so it’s the gosh-darn happiest vegetable ever.

at the beginning of a Simpson’s episode, bart is seen writing on the blackboard.."I didn’t see anything in the teacher’s Lounge, “I didn’t see anything in the teachers lounge, I didn’t see anything in the teacher’s lounge”

Good carrot cake might as well be candy to me…

Nab… I meant it as a plus.

Varnes… it’s cake, not carrots. So it is like candy.They all are.

People laugh at the old Snickers commercials that tout it as food…then they pay three or four times as much for fancy “energy bars” that are pretty much the same thing, with a couple of extra nutrients you could get in a carrot and a bite of cheese..Granola bars, “breakfast bars”, energy drinks, bran muffins, carrot cake,… they all have a few more vitamins and a bit more protein than an ounce of chocolate…

But it’s all mostly sugar, folks.

White sugar, brown sugar, honey…. agave syrup…some act fast and some act slowly…NONE of them are like spinach or chicken.

Eat ‘em if you enjoy ’em, don’t eat ‘em if you don’t….

But I say eat a little of the real stuff that tastes good and quickly satisfies the craving ….and then get your vitamins and protein from real food….and quit wasting money on expensive self-deception.

Wait until you figure out that the yummy meats and animal fats that they told you are unhealthy are actually what you should be eating and it’s low-fat, whole-grain crap that’s killing you. Just make sure that the livestock was raised on pasture and not GMO corn and soy. Support your local farmer.

My favorite snack is a Milk Bone. It’s got everything I need, plus it helps clean my teeth.I’ve developed a taste for wood.

My wife’s pet peeve in that area is graham crackers. ’"They’re not crackers", she says.

Oh man…. really?

In college (U of MI – Flint), I used to buy blueberrly muffins from the INFO Desk, instead of a doughnut, thinking it was healthier. Then they started to label the muffins. My healthy muffin was 500 calories and about 25 grams of fat.LOL

I’ve had my suspicions….

If it didn’t have plenty of sugar, why would you eat it?

So, between zucchini bread, carrot cake, and chocolate cake, the winner is..?

I like “King’s Bread”.

Sugar shmugar, it’s the amount of oil that goes into zucchini bread that’s shocking. And yes, about the only thing that separates zucchini bread from carrot cake is cream cheese frosting. But that’s a BIG thing, calorie wise!

Depends entirely on the recipe. My wife and I have been making various types of “bread” (zucchini, pumpkin, others) using flax meal as the base and they’re surprising tasty—without frosting! (Yeah, we’re talking low-carb here. Kind of a disovery by accident that worked out well.)

Take your standard zucchini bread recipe and replace a quarter to a third of the flour with ground pecans. Healthier and so extremely good.