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Ok. So. This is a health and fitness blog for geeks, right? The whole point of this thing is to promote lifestyle choices that will help you live longer and better lives. That’s why we’re all here. I get that. I mean, considering the fact I’m one of the founders one would hope that I grasp the concept of the experiment.
I also understand, however, that there are times when all the good choices in the world get tossed aside and you just have to have something decadent. Call it a mental health break if you will, but every once in a while even the strongest of us just have to be “bad”. I get that, too.
Unfortunately for us a popular foodstuff in the realm of emotional eating is a little worse for you at the moment than it normally is.
The Food and Drug Administration partnered up with the Center for Disease Control last weekend to issue a statement warning the public not to eat raw Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough. In response to the statement the company issued a recall for approximately 300,000 cases of the dough as a precaution after 28 states reported cases of E. Coli where the victims reported eating it.
Nestle claimed in a statement that no traces of E. Coli had been found in their product but that they were recalling the cookie dough anyway out of concern for public health. They advised all consumers who currently have Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough to throw out any unused portion and instructed retailers to discontinue selling it.
They also reminded consumers that Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough should never be eaten raw.
I’m kind of wondering how they kept a straight face while making that last statement to be honest, considering how well loved raw cookie dough is. Heck, it’s even a popular ice cream flavor!
In any case if you’ve got any Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough in your fridge you should throw it out. You didn’t need those calories anyway (Just for grins I found the nutrition information and ran the Weight Watchers® POINTS for an entire tube of Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. 52.5!!!)
One would think that staying away from animal products would make ice cream an impossibility, lest one want to partake in that “ice cream-like substance” called Tofutti.
But they would be wrong.
Purely Decadent is a dangerous, dangerous substitute for me.
Especially their peanut butter zig-zag which calls to me nightly.
Have you considered changing your number? Maybe answering with a badly-faked accent, claiming, “No, mang, Scott’s not here!”
What’s the POINT situation like on that stuff, Scott?