Bless the refreshments?

We just got back from the wonderful Christmas program at which the First Presidency of the church spoke at. The music was beautiful and the words brought peace. The Presidency focused a lot on the true meaning of Christmas and encouraged us not to get stressed out by things we feel like we have to do (or buy), but to focus our thoughts and actions on the babe born in Bethlehem. As they spoke, I thought about my own baby and how much more important Christmas is to me and how much more important the Savior's life and death is to me. It means more to me because it saves Vivienne, too. That baby in the manger made it so my baby in her crib could return to her Heavenly Father.

That's not what I originally planned to write about, but it feels good to write. Anyway, at the end of the program (any program) there was a closing prayer in which the prayer was asked to bless the refreshments. This is one Mormon tradition I just don't understand. How can we, in all seriousness and good conscious, bless the brownie cakes we're about to partake to 'strengthen and nourish' us? Any time there's refreshements, whether they be cookies, cake, brownies, jello with fruit, etc., they have to blessed to be for our betterment. I'm sorry, but there is no nutritional value in those scrumptious treats no matter how many times you pray for it. This is a tradition that makes me uncomfortable, too, because I feel disengenuous when I ask for refreshments to be blessed, but I feel pressure that that's what's expected. Let's just bless the refreshments this way: "please bless the refreshments that the calories won't get straight to my thighs."