It's 10 PM. Do you know where the monster is? It’s in the fridge.

You’ve been good all day, eating right and doing your exercise. How about a "little something"? What’s that in the fridge, behind the pickles, ketchup, bread, and peanut butter? Why, it’s that big piece of chocolate cake that you brought home from your friend’s birthday party.

You didn’t want to be rude, but you weren’t about to munch it down right there in front of everyone. So you brought it home in a doggie-bag. It's been sitting there for two days, and it looks a bit tired. Maybe you should eat it before it becomes stale and inedible.

If you fear the lure of temptation, you could always follow the old trick of taking it to the sink and "washing" it until it is no more. But that seems so wasteful! There must be another, less drastic solution.

What’s the old saying… waste not, want not. Do you want it, or not? Well, yes, you do, but not on your waist! Why not divide it into three portions?

This Takes the Cake

1 piece of chocolate (or other) cake
3 scoops low-fat, sugar-free ice cream or frozen yogurt
1/4 cup sugar-free chocolate syrup
4 seedless red grapes

Cut the cake into 3 thin pieces.
Put each piece on a small plate.
Top each piece with a scoop of ice cream or frozen yogurt.
Drizzle with chocolate syrup.
Top with a grape.
Eat slowly, with a tiny spoon. Savor it.

3 servings. That means one for you, and one apiece for two friends, OR one for you today, and put the other two away for another day! But whatever you do, do not eat all three at once.