'Put On Some Holiday Pounds' Poem by Linda Winchell

I'm trying to eat healthier now
after putting on, Thanksgiving Day, holiday pounds!
While shopping in the gourmet aisle
I found some pasta, that was, colored brown!

It said, it was low in calories and carbs!
and was made, with real whole wheat!
But when I cooked it up, for about and hour!
It was dry and really horrible, to eat!

So then I made some, Tofu burger things
I heard that they were healthier, than meat!
But when I fried them, in some soy butter
They got so tuff, that one broke off, my two front teeth!

Now isn't there an easier way?
To lose the pounds, I've earned?
Than to eat things, that look and taste so funny
I'm growing suspicious and really, product content concerned!

Isn't there something out there,
that doesn't have weird names, and cost so much?
I need to eat something healthy, don't I?
So why does it all have to taste, like cardboard dust?

I guess I'll have to go and exercise?
to take off, what I've put on.
Maybe next week I'll just do that?
But for now, I'll eat what I want!
and live with these extra, couple pounds!