This are paczki. (Pronounce: poonchKEY) People eat them on Fat Tuesday. If you are not from the Midwest or Polish you’ve got no idea what the deal is with these dough balls. Here’s a detailed description of paczki. Basically paczki are Polish pastries. Each one weighs about 17 pounds, 400 to 600 calories, and is [...]

The calendar from now until 2010 is filled with occasions and events that challenge the diet. Days that events, ancient druid tradition, and a brief accord with indigenous people cause even the most committed dieter to eat candy corn until it shoots out your tearducts. But in the belief that red flags help alert people [...]

Church is over. The kids are whiny from having to sit still for 1 1/2 hours. Our chocolate bunnies no longer have ears and it’s 2 hours until the guests arrive for “dinner” (which gets increasingly earlier since 1/2 of our guest lists consists of people over 65…we love you family people over 65…but 4:15 [...]

We all know Easter is the time when Christians celebrate the Resurrection by eating chocolate bunnies and with the traditional buying artificial neon colored grass to put in wicker baskets. Since binge eating is also instrinsic to holidays, holy or otherwise, here’s a handy guide for watching your waistline. First up I found a darling little Easter Pig Out Calorie Binge Counter [...]