The following is a story making the rounds in our parental circle of friends…

A couple visiting one set of grandparents with the first child, a 4 year-old, sit down for a snack. The parents have been working diligently with their child to practice basic manners, the “pleases” and “thank yous” of life. One of the grandparents offers the child chips for a snack, a suggestion met with enthusiasm by the child. The grandparent then brings a bowl of chips to the child.

The child’s mother says “And what do you say?”

The child says “Do you got some salsa?”

Kidding aside, you may remember that 2007 is the year of the diet for me (and I’ll give an update on progress in the next couple of weeks) but today I wanted to share a discovery (in plain sight and in retrospect, an obvious discovery.)

Look at the label below:

As you can see, salsa does have calories, fat, and sodium and although these are small amounts per 100g (3.5 oz – weight, not volume) thus it is not a “free” food. The same is true of mustard, catsup, mayonaise, barbeque sauce, soy sauce, etc. These are so easy to miss/forget I term them “invisible.” So, when you’re counting those calories, don’t forget the salsa!

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