Cookie monster giant cookie

I saw this at Shaws. It is a giant cookie with a frosting cookie monster. There is another cookie standing up coming out of his mouth.

Prices of Cookies

Suppose you want to make 2 dozen chocolate chip cookies. What are your choices? As discussed in an earlier blog, you can buy all the whole ingredients, buy a mix plus the added ingredients, or a packaged dough. I will give you the prices for each option.

Pillsbury Ready to Bake Cookie Dough 20ct...............$3.50 x 2= $7.00
Pillsbury Cookie Dough in log Form(should make over 2 dozen).............$3.59
Betty Crocker cookie mix(3 dozen,2 inch cookies).................$2.79
Betty Crocker cookie mix + eggs + butter.......$2.79+$1.19+$1.50= $5.48
Whole Ingredients(subtract what you already have at home)
-Sugar...................$1.69
-Brown Sugar.......$1.09
-Butter..................$1.50
-Egg.......................$1.19
-Flour....................$1.59
-Baking Soda........$1.19
-Salt.......................$0.79
-Chocolate Chips..$2.69
Total....................$11.73

Whole Ingredients were selected from the cheapest, lowest quantities. For example, I chose half a dozen eggs instead of a full dozen eggs.

The whole ingredient way may be more expensive but it is going to make more cookies and won't have all those unnatural added ingredients. Also most people already have most of the ingredients they need to make whole ingredient cookies.

In conclusion, the cheapest way to make 2 dozen cookies is to buy cookie dough in log form. Enjoy your cookies!

A Different Version of the Cookie Diet!

Here is a different cookie diet you can try courtesy of my friend:

Say you are trying to lose weight. You could go to the gym for a half hour to an hour a day and only burn 300-400 calories or you could just not eat those extra cookies. Each chips ahoy cookie has about 80 calories. Hmm, that is a hard decision. Busting your butt or not eating 5 cookies.

Of course, my friend was only joking. This diet wouldn't work unless you frequently each 5 or more cookies a day. If you are a person eating that many cookies a day then you may have bigger problems like the fact that you are probably morbidly obese with several health problems.

"Nothing Tastes as Good as Being Thin Feels!"

Cookie Monster Eating Fruit?

OH MY GOD! Dr. Cohen sent me a link to a news article about cookie monster eating fruit. This is just wrong. You cannot call a character the cookie monster and have him eat fruit. Sesame Street should have Elmo or Big Bird eating fruit but leave Cookie Monster alone; cookies are his thing.

I can see what they are trying to do. Childhood obesity rates are on the rise and I guess Cookie Monster would be a good role model. His eating habits are unhealthy and if he can learn to eat fruit then anyone can. The article says they are trying to teach him to eat in moderation but he still is going to scarf down food. I don't think the show should worry too much about trying to teach the children to eat healthy because it should be the parents job to smack the cookie out of their chubby child's hand. As long as Sesame Street puts their name on healthy snacks and juices then they aren't responsible for the obesity of America.


The article can be found here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/08/entertainment/main686690.shtml

Dr. Siegel's Cookie Diet

This diet is a little disturbing. The doctor wants you to only eat 800 calories a day by eating only dinner and whenever else you're hungry, you should eat his cookies. I'm pretty sure this is unhealthy. You won't be getting the recommended daily servings of anything. So all you are allowed to eat is 6 cookies and one meal a day.

"Siegal's plan is actually a very low-calorie diet, in which six of the special Siegal cookies are eaten when hungry during the day, along with eight glasses of liquid, and only one meal is eaten, dinner, consisting of 6 ounces of lean protein (chicken, turkey, fish or seafood only), plus one cup of vegetables." (http://thyroid.about.com/od/loseweightsuccessfully/a/cookiediet.htm)

This is crazy! Your body needs carbs for energy and by eating so little your body will think you are starving it and your metabolism will slow down causing you to lose less weight and store fat.

My recommendation is that you put down the box of cookies, eat healthier, and get some exercise!

raw cookie dough

Raw cookie dough is soooooooo delicious! Everyone says "oh don't eat it raw, you will get Salmonella poisoning!" The raw eggs put in the cookie dough may contain salmonella. I am pretty sure I am not the only one that likes to eat raw cookie dough. I have never gotten salmonella poisoning but even if I did, I think I would still risk eating raw cookie dough.

Oh but good news for you cookie dough eaters! Packaged cookie dough uses pasteurized eggs which virtually eliminates the risk of salmonella poisoning. This is also why its safe to eat chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. So yay for pasteurized eggs making our life more delicious and safe!

Everyone Loves Raymond

Today, I was watching Everyone Loves Raymond at 6:30pm. Its the episode when Debra convinces Raymond to work from home. On his first day working at home, Debra comes home after getting some groceries and asks Raymond to help put get them from the car. Raymond's mother, Marie (who is always around uninvited), offers to help Debra so Raymond can go back to his home office to work. If you haven't seen the show, Marie is always making little remarks about how Debra can't cook or clean. Marie then proceeds to pick up a package of cookies and says to Debra "Cookies in a log package?...Well that's almost baking, isn't it?"

This comment from Marie reminded me of how some people feel about premade packaged doughs. Some older people wouldn't consider these kind of cookies to be baking because you aren't doing the work. Baking to them is putting love and time into making the dough from scratch. People nowadays are busy and baking cookies from a "log package" is baking to them.

How Do You Eat Them?

I am not a big fan of Oreos. I like the Golden Original Oreos but I really dislike all the other chocolate Oreos. Actually when I buy cookies like the Golden Originals, I will purchase the store brand before i buy the Nabisco brand (nothing against Nabisco, I'm just cheap). Oreos like some other foods are interesting in the way that people actually have preferences on how they eat them. Personally, I have to dunk the cookie in milk and make it a particular degree of soggy. It has to still have a little bit of a crunch but have milk soaked into the cookie. I am sure if you asked anyone that has eaten Oreos how they eat them, they will know exactly what you mean. Some people will split the cookie in half and lick the creme off and then eat the cookie halves. Others will only eat the creme and throw the cookie parts away (thats a waste, go buy a container of frosting). Others are dunkers like I am. Some people also enjoy crushing the cookies and putting them in their ice cream (which is the only way you will get me to eat chocolate Oreos).

Interesting Viewing: The Nabisco website has stories from around the world about Oreo moments. Here is the link : http://www.nabiscoworld.com/oreo/moments/default.aspx

Enjoy!

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Girl Scout Cookies

It's that time of the year again!! The Girl Scouts are out selling cookies. I personally haven't had girl scout cookies since I was a Girl Scout so I am not very familiar with the cookies they sell. I didn't know this about the cookies but apparently they are mostly the same cookies across the country but they have regional name differences. In Massachusetts they are called:




















I noticed that they now have "100 calorie snack packs" which is a good way of selling more cookies. I remember when I had to sell candy, women would say they couldn't buy it because they were watching their weight. Now they have no excuse and if they do not want to buy the cookies they will have to say no to their sweet innocent little faces.

If you like these cookies I recommend going to support the Girl Scouts. To make finding them easier, here is a list of dates and locations.

http://www.ptgirlscouts.org/files/boothtown.pdf


I started thinking about the life skills these young girls are learning from selling these cookies. The Girl Scout website says these girls are learning:

• Leadership
• Entrepreneurship
• Decision making
• Goal-setting
• Business skills
• Money management
• Planning
• Marketing
• Responsibility
• Self-confidence
• Communication and Public Speaking Skills
• Teamwork
• Philanthropy and community service

(http://www.ptgirlscouts.org/cookies/buy-girl-scout-cookies.html)

I think learning these skills are important but are they really learning all this from cookies? And why sell cookies? Why not sell something healthier or something to help the environment? It's tradition that's why. The Girl Scouts don't really care if you are obese and keep stuffing yourself with transfats. The cookies are good and the little girls are cute, who can resist?