I'll Take Mine Well Done Please....

So recently, as I have been counting calories and exercising until I think I will have a stroke, I have been paying very close attention to all the news on dark chocolate. This is ground breaking people! Do you realize that we now have an excuse to eat chocolate and say that it's healthy?! FABULOUS I tell you! I have always thought that chocolate should be considered a vegetable since it originally comes from a plant, but no one important wants to listen to me...go figure.

This has made my trips to the grocery store so much more fulfilling. Apparently, the stores figured out that this would mean big bucks for them, so they started putting bags, yes bags, of dark chocolate at the checkout counter. How convenient! Now I, being very concerned about my health and all, purchased a bag of healthy chocolate the other day. I carefully carried it to the car and after turning on the air so it wouldn't melt, I painstakingly unwrapped one small square. I inhaled the sweet aroma, and was just about to place it on my tongue to slowly melt away when what from the backseat do I hear? One of those annoying precious kids asking for a piece. Can you believe that? Meghan had the nerve to ask me to share my chocolate! Because I am such a wonderful mother, as I have said many times before, I passed a square of pure delight back to her. I could hear the wrapper being ripped from the sweet decadence, and then horror. "I don't like it, it tastes funny." Can you believe this? Fortunately she had only tasted one small corner so I did what any half insane self respecting mother of four would do. I took it from her grubby little hand, rewrapped it and put it back in the bag to eat later myself! Whew! All was not lost!

After savoring my own piece and dropping a few pounds, I asked Meghan why she didn't like it. Her reply; "I only like medium chocolate." Well that's great! More well done chocolate for me!