Taste Life Blog

Easter Sunday is just that one day which leads to endless days of guilt ridden eating of our Easter candy. If you would like to enjoy a little less of it, here are a few tips you may want to consider.

A study in the Journal Appetite shows that if you buy candy you will eat less of if it’s individually wrapped as opposed to unwrapped candy.  Perhaps the extra effort it takes to un- wrap a piece of chocolate is enough to deter people from eating as many. Are we just so lazy these days? Really?

Another study by Brian Wansink, Phd, and  author of the book Mindless Eating; Why We Eat More Than We Think found that people eating chicken wings ate 27 percent less when they left the bones on the table. Apparently, being surrounded by plates of bones creates an ongoing reality check. Either you’ll eat less or you’ll switch to the boneless version to avoid leaving a trail.

A similar principle may apply to candy wrappers. So the next time you feel the need for a candy fix, keep the wrappers in front of you which will keep you honest to yourself and eating less. Your sweet tooth will love you!

Remember, your stomach can’t count, but your eyes can when they see the empty wrappers.

We would love to hear from you. Do you keep your wrappers? Has it helped?