Office manager Petra Bozic (33) feels as if she has flown too close to the sun again, after reading the nutritional information printed on her packet of soy crisps, ruining her afternoon snack.
Unable to make it between lunch and dinner without snacking due to advertising telling her that she can’t, Bozic tries to make healthier snack choices, electing to visit her supermarket’s fruit section and purchasing the weird packets of snacks from the bottom shelves.
Unfortunately for the Bali enthusiast, it turns out her choice of ‘healthy snack’ has as many calories as a Big Mac, a fact she would have been blissfully unaware of if she had just resisted reading the nutritional information.
“Contains maltodextrin. Is that natural?” asked Bozic through a mouthful of miscellaneous flavoured crumbs.
“Why did I read this bloody thing? Again.”
Bozic says this isn’t her first disappointing experience with a deceptively unhealthy snack, citing one incident where she read the nutritional information on the wrapper of a fruit cereal bar after she had already eaten it, prompting a deep depression that would last an entire week.
“How the fuck is a fruit bar so unhealthy? It contains real fruit! It’s made by Special K for Christ’s sake!”
Frustrated by the lack of healthy snack options that assist her in getting through a day in corporate hell, Bozic elected to close the packet of soy crisps with a bulldog clip and placed them in her draw, promising herself to only eat them if she was feeling really desperate which she believes will be in about 16 minutes time.
