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While paying proper respect to St Patrick’s Day Season, we should also note the onset of another calorie-consuming tradition that is soon upon us.

Very kindly, WebMD has put out a survival guide for GSC Season although that can be somewhat misleading; just like a sugar-free poptart or a “light” beer, eating/drinking 100 of them will still cause a bit of weight gain.

Apparently there are two new less-unhealthy options of which I was unaware:

• Cinna-spins come in 100-calorie pouches topping out at only 2 grams of fat, 1 gram saturated fat, and 8 grams of sugar.
• Sugar-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies have 0 grams sugar (but 7 grams of sugar alcohol that’s mostly not digested). But they’re relatively high in fat (9 grams per serving) and calories (160 per serving).

The overall list:

*Cinna-Spins (1 pouch = 15 mini cookies; 24 grams weight)

*Lowest in fat; lowest in saturated fat; lowest in calories

 2. *Shortbread (4 cookies; 26 grams)

*Lowest in sugar among the regular cookies

3. Do-si-dos (2 cookies; 24 grams)

4. Lemon Chalet Cremes (2 cookies; 32 grams)

5. Peanut Butter Sandwich (3 cookies, 35 grams)

6. Thanks-A-Lot (2 cookies, 31 grams)

7. Trefoils (5 cookies, 33 grams)

8. All Abouts (3 cookies, 30 grams)

9. Thin Mints from Little Brownie Bakers (4 cookies, 32 grams)

10. Lemonades (2 cookies, 31 grams)

11. *Caramel deLites (2 cookies, 28 grams)

12. Peanut Butter Patties (2 cookies, 28 grams)

13. Samoas from Little Brownie Bakers (2 cookies, 31 grams)

14. *Thin Mints from ABC Bakers (4 cookies, 33 grams)

*Tied with Caramel deLites for the highest in saturated fat

15. Sugar Free Chocolate Chips (3 cookies, 34 grams)

*Highest in fiber; Lowest in sugar

16. *Tagalongs from Little Brownie Bakers (2 cookies, 27 grams)

[*Highest in fat]

March 20th is going to be Fred Roger’s 80th birthday. In honor of that, everyone should wear a sweater.

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