Kiwi at the Lab

Common Kiwifruit from the species A. Deliciosa

As every sweet tooth who has ever been scolded by the authorities (parents) that maybe those teeth won't be around much longer if you continue to dissolve them daily in sugar knows, sometimes you have to seek out sweet alternatives when given the opportunity.  Our Carly is just such a mastermind    

Good Earth Chocolate Chip Cookie, Galleria, Edina

sweet tooth who, if not watched literally with a 'sweetsie' camera will do such things as: Exhibit A.) sneak an enormous batch of Halloween candy from a sister, eat it in her own room, then plant the wrappers in said sister's room, only to later deny all charges; Exhibit B.) pop a candy mint in the mouth before bed at night after brushing her teeth, claiming "it makes my breath good;" Exhibit C) in the morning, when dad isn't looking, the sweet tooth sneaks a Hershey's candy bar into her day's lunchbox.  And so, needless to say, with such accumulated evidence against the culprit, the authorities have to try to dig up little adventures that might emphasize things like fruit, that old-fashioned source of sugar needs.  We found such a place a few weeks back close to home which we think provides the sufficient illusion of healthy eating by offering a variety

of fruit-based  yogurts and sweet-to-sour toppings.  The new Yogurt Lab is located by Panera in Onalaska and displays its flavor selections as letters on a chemical table, which we figure has got to be  

much better for  you than other kinds of dessert labeling.  As Carly hovers over the hundreds of sweet toppings for her fruity yogurt, she has found out that kiwi chunks have astonishingly similar properties to Starburst Candies and, because it is indeed fruit (although 8 grams of naturally occurring sugar per

dose!), the authorities have been known to let her heap it on over lime or peach yogurt, creating, in name anyway, one of the healthiest bowls of yogurt known to Childkind.