The Fall Back: Extra Hour Strategies

Here are some ideas for things to do during your extra hour…starting with setting your clocks back at 2:00 a.m.

1. Start your holiday shopping early at www.imagineeringstore.com

2. Practice voting. Tuesday is the big day and you don’t want to mess up.

3. Watch one episode of Sixty Minutes.

4. Call all of your Hawaiian and Arizona friends (not including the Navajo Indians) and remind them not to change their clocks.

5. Do all those things you have put off doing until you had time. Now you have it.

6. Write a bunch of thank you notes in the event that people do nice things for you.

7. Come up with ways to repeal the Uniform Time Act.

8. Try to figure out a way to store that extra hour so you can use it later on.

9. Do more shopping at www.imagineeringstore.com

Sweet Indulgence

So, you just finished a successful night of trick or treating. You’ve got a bag full of candy. It’s been organized, traded and reorganized. Now, it’s time to develop an eating strategy that allows you to consume your candy-coated stockpile without any guilt. Sound impossible? Well, the verbal nutritionists at The Imagineering Company (who trained at the Cliff Bar Institute) took the liberty of rethinking some of our favorite candies

Snickers  

This candy energy bar is filled with nuts which everyone knows is an important source of protein. And, if you choose the mini size, think of all the calories you're saving.

Candy Corn

OK this is a no brainer—it’s got a vegetable in its names—so it’s got to be good for you.

Almond Joy

Consider this the trifecta of healthy ingredients—coconut water, dark chocolate and almonds.

Dark Chocolate

It’s good for your heart. And it’s filled with flavanoids which rhymes with humanoids.

Jolly Ranchers

Very low in calories, no saturated fat and they take forever to finish. So, if you amortize the calories over time it is practically nothing.

Smarties

Again…the name says it all. And it has no grams of fat. So, put the dum dum down and eat the Smarties.

Laffy Taffy

No added fat, Vitamin C and kinesthesiologists have shown that laughter burns calories.

Pencils

OK, write this down. No nutritional value whatsoever.