nutritious junk

Its amazing how calories can sneak up on you from those little innocent bowls filled with tiny hard candies often irnoically found in the docotor's office (talk about health..eh?), banks, or in my case, my grandmother's living room (although those hard candies were probably purchased in 1976). They can actually be around 50 calories each! and thats not even food, it barely an oral fixation, i mean, come on, gum lasts way longer! Anyhow, nips made a new sugar free flavor, chocolate. A chocolate snob, i am sad to say this did not taste like chocolate. It was closer to the original coffee flavored nips if anything. It didn't taste artificial, or very sweet for that matter, which i dont mind but a bit of sweetness could have amped it up a little bit. I guess its alright tasting but what gets me is the nutritionals. each is 30 calories which isn't terrible but still, these are fairly small and they last about 5 min, so you're prone to back for another and another and 4 of those suckers are 120 calories (as is 3 bags of Shiritaki noodles and a smart dog with a wonder light bun). they dont cure a chocolate craving like cocoa via so i dont think i'll be purchasing them again, but hey, offer them in a cute bowl if once you reach grandma status.