What is a calorie and how do they get burned?

In the course of a series of questions, we came across a discovery of calories. This happened in the afternoon as we were enjoying a bike and scooter ride, in the sunshine. It had been a couple of hours and our energy reserves were feeling low.

Furthermore it looked as though we could use some replenishment. A good refreshment was also a welcome idea. After some thought we decided we needed some extra energy, since we had been so busy all afternoon. We had burned a lot of calories.

What is a calorie and how do they get burned?

Then, some quiet thinking from the little one. There had been a scooter crash, with a resulting knee scrape. There had also been several close calls and one ant hill examination. But we hadn’t encountered fire of any kind. Therefore the news about burning calories was definitely that. News!

The questions began immediately and what is a calorie was the most pressing . Fortunately, I had a crisp cold Coca Cola. In addition, we had a couple of bags of CheezIt snack crackers. Once we discovered that most food packages have a nutrition label, calories were easy to find.

Firstly we checked the Coca Cola and found that 16.9 ounces contained 200 tasty and deliciously fizzy calories. Next we checked our 1.5 ounce bag of Cheezits and found 210 calories there. 😳 We discovered lots of calories!

There were a couple of doughnuts to consider as well. However, we were ready to hear about the burning, of these newly discovered calories. (Since they were apparently piling up!) This was discovery in action. So we took action!

Burned Calories

First we cleaned up our mess. Then we took out the trash. After that we checked the mail, and returned to the kitchen counter. We decided to add up all the calories we just burned, doing those chores!

Talk about excitement! Who knew that eating a snack could make it possible to do boring chores! Furthermore, by our math (and the extremely high calorie content of some of our snacks) we still had additional calories left to burn! Great news! We went back outside, and used our calories for more fun in the sun! Thanks for reading today!