Sentences with phrase «higher than the candy»

In 2004 Americans spent $ 34.4 billion on their pets, which was 60 % higher than toys and 33 % higher than candy.

Not exact matches

He notes that even candy bars can be priced and marketed based on more than just the ingredients: «With Hershey's, you're getting a great chocolate bar, but [higher - priced] Godiva is selling love and a means of pampering yourself.»

Some are super high in sugar and almost appear to be more of a candy bar than something that's supposed to be good for you.

If you heat a sugar syrup to temperatures higher than any of the candy stages, you will be on your way to creating caramelized sugar (the brown liquid stage)-- a rich addition to many desserts.

They are certainly more nutritious than standard candy bars but can still be high in calories and fat if you have too much in one sitting!

They had processed high - sugar breakfast cereals (heaven forbid they should actually cook some oatmeal), gallons of fresh milk (because powdered is «icky» and they won't eat it), cheese (that was a luxury we couldn't afford), frozen convenience foods, juice (which is much less healthy than fruit and expensive relative to nutrients), and soda, candy, donuts, cookies, cracker, ice cream and other treats we couldn't possibly afford.

Candy bars generally have less than 10 milligrams, but the darker the chocolate, the higher the caffeine content.

A lot of store - bought granola bars also contain unhealthy saturated fats, oils, preservatives, high levels of sodium, refined flours, and they can contain more refined sugar than actual candy bars do.

Cacao is a superfood, though usually tainted by excessive heating and mixed with high amounts of sugar and dairy for a less - than - nourishing candy.

A piece of high - quality dark chocolate or a slice of dense cheesecake should satisfy your sweet tooth more intensely than cheap doughnuts or candy.

Refined foods like cake or candy tend to be easier to digest than whole foods like vegetables, fruit, and meat, so they usually have a higher thermic effect as well.

Wheat raises blood sugar higher than nearly all other foods, including table sugar and many candy bars.

Notice that you can have a larger serving of dark chocolate than white (less sugar), and the extra sugar in Snickers (and other comparable candy bars) and jelly beans will totally cause blood sugar spikes since the Glycemic Load is so high.

Most granola is very high in sugar and is lacking in protein, which in my opinion, makes it only slightly better than a candy bar.

Call it a haunted house / high school romp / demon killer / surreal fairy tale: a stylized candy - colored bomb of a ghost story more jaw - droppingly unreal than scary, an experimental piece of pop - art genre filmmaking with a cartoonish flair to its art direction, special effects and graphic expressionism.

Dressed in their lethal high heels and loosely laced tops, these employees of the Townsend Agency are more eye candy aimed at fulfilling male fantasies than credible crime fighters.

«Nothing gets you more prepared for the real world than job experience,» says Ms. Kessler, a high school senior who, until recently, spent 20 to 30 hours a week at her candy store job in a shopping mall in this Philadelphia suburb.

graphics are so important to me a beautiful game is really like a candy to my eyes and its more important than anything else to me its like when u like a movie so much and u have seen it for ten times but again u buy it in bluray just for higher visual quality and i love to play the games that i like with best quality.so if i like a game i wan na see it with best quality

«Rather than reading Cremaster, we are encouraged to consume it as high - end eye candy, whose symbolic system is available to us but hardly necessary to our pleasure: meaning, that is, is no longer a necessary component to art production or reception.

I say luckily, because I certainly can use a regular reminder that there's a whole lot more in the world than I encounter on my high street, particularly in mid-February, when the world (near me, at least) can be deprived of colour, smells and the ear - candy of bird song.

Supercell, whose Clash of Clans remained its top - earning app, ranked No. 2 overall and on the App Store, but came in at No. 3 on Google Play after King — whose Candy Crush Saga continued to be its highest earning app more than four years after its November 2012 launch.

Hershey Co posted a higher - than - expected first - quarter profit on Tuesday, helped by price increases, and raised its full - year outlook, sending the candy maker's shares up more than 3 percent.

All questions were asked for each of 10 snack foods [popcorn, pretzels, chips, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate, fruit - flavored chewy candies (eg, Skittles; Wrigley), ice cream, frozen yogurt, peanuts, and Fig Newtons (Nabisco)-RSB-; however, because of a very high percentage of mothers (84 — 94 %) who reported purchasing frozen yogurt, Fig Newtons, and peanuts less than once per month, the data on these 3 foods were excluded from the current analyses.