Batman the Bunny Peep.
If you want to indulge your sweet tooth this Easter — without ending up egg-shaped — ditch the chocolate bunnies.
Each of the 2.5-ounce solid milk-chocolate treats packs an average of 370 calories and takes some three hours to jog off.
Instead, suggests nutritionist Tanya Zuckerbrot, author of “The F-Factor Diet,” swap the bunnies for marshmallow Peeps.
Four of the chewy snacks total a mere 130 calories.
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| — | “Bunny isn’t everything,” by Cynthia Fagen, New York Post, March 31, 2010. |
You have to eat the ears off first if you get the bunny,” declared Linda Haught, a homemaker from Alexandria, Va. “That’s the rule. Any other Peep, you eat the head first.
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| — | ”First Peeps store is a mecca for all their ‘peeple,’” by Bob Drogin, LA Times, December 11, 2009 |
It also says 8,000 Peeps bunnies, stacked atop one another, would reach the top of the Sears Tower in Chicago. That’s also 260,000 calories, if you’re wondering.
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| — | ”First Peeps store is a mecca for all their ‘peeple,’” by Bob Drogin, LA Times, December 11, 2009 |
There’s something mystical about Peeps,” said Matthew Beals, a New York filmmaker who has shot a 45-minute documentary about people obsessed with the spongy bunnies and chicks. “They really inspire a passion. People either love them or hate them.
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| — | ”First Peeps store is a mecca for all their ‘peeple,’” by Bob Drogin, LA Times, December 11, 2009 |
