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04-09-2008, 02:48 PM
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#16 | | Junior Member
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| Mine love oatmeal/cranberry or cinnamon scones! I too pack things in snap top containers and then pack in a flat rate priority mail box. They get to school fresh and unbroken! | 
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04-09-2008, 04:25 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
Threads: 100
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| I'm a horrible baker. My kids LOVE to get boxes of Girl Scout cookies. DS loves thin mints and DD loves tagalongs. | |
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04-09-2008, 04:29 PM
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#18 | | Senior Member
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| Thumbprint Cookies. Mmmm. Chopped walnuts in the cookie dough, and blackberry preserves in the thumbprint. | |
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04-09-2008, 04:31 PM
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#19 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Houston, Texas Gender: Female
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| Just... be sure to let the cookies cool completely before packing them up. The snap-top container idea is also a really good one. See below:
Dad, eagerly: Did you get the oatmeal raisin cookies I sent you??
Me: The what?
Dad, deflated: I... sent you oatmeal raisin cookies.
Me: I got a gallon-sized ziplock of oatmeal-raisin granola the other day. Is that what you're talking about?
Dad: ....oh.
Me: No, it's really good on ice cream. Don't sweat it.
Dad: Oh, okay. | |
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04-09-2008, 04:32 PM
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#20 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
Threads: 100
Posts: 5,383
| I'm a horrible baker. My kids LOVE to get boxes of Girl Scout cookies. DS loves thin mints and DD loves tagalongs. | |
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04-09-2008, 04:40 PM
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#21 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Maryland Gender: Female
Threads: 2
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| I sent S back to school at Easter with 9 cups of 'puppy chow'. That is not the correct name but everyone here knows it as that. You take the chocolate Chex cereal, melt chocolate chips, peanut butter and butter, add vanilla and pour on the cereal. you then mix it all together and top with the powder sugar.
It is great stff, just don't look at the box for the calorie count. | |
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04-09-2008, 04:47 PM
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#22 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2006
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| ebeeee-- I've got one of those no sweet eaters but he is overjoyed with shipments of oranges and/or grapefruit. Pittman and Davis is pretty reasonable but April is the last shipment of the year.
I'd love to be sending baked goodies too so I feel your pain. | |
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04-09-2008, 04:50 PM
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#23 | | Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
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| blonde brownies..they stay moist for travel and disappear very quickly. oh and fit it a zip lock | |
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04-09-2008, 05:08 PM
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#24 | | Senior Member
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| glasses,
yeah I send beef jerky and trial mix but it just isn't the same. | |
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04-09-2008, 05:17 PM
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#25 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: CT
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| Re: packing cookies & brownies -- if I'm feeling lazy or trying to get the goodies shipped out in a hurry, I use the disposable plastic containers, with wax paper all around so they don't rattle around. But, since D has very little storage space and can't really use any more containers, I've also had great success with taking a stack of 4-6 cookies/brownies and wrapping them in plastic wrap. I end up with a bunch of these little packets, which I put in a larger box along with whatever else I'm sending her. The real key is to pack the box absolutely full with newsprint, bubble wrap, or whatever so stuff doesn't roll around and break. (We moved about 18 months ago, so have TONS of packing material.) I use UPS since I know for sure it's 2 days to D's school by ground. | |
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04-09-2008, 07:48 PM
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#26 | | Senior Member
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| I just tried out a new brownie recipe and will see how fast it goes stale--it was a big hit at my community meeting tonight. | |
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04-09-2008, 07:52 PM
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#27 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2006
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| ebeee- beef jerky is a great idea, thanks. I 'm gonna include some with my next box of almonds and pistachios.
I have been reduced to making biscuits for dog :-O | |
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04-09-2008, 08:16 PM
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#28 | | Member
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| Pop or buy a big bag of cheap popcorn and use that to pack around the cookies. Good cushioning. | |
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04-09-2008, 08:30 PM
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#29 | | Member
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Virginia
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| Make the toll house chocolate chip cookies recipe but spread out in a big jelly roll pan. Then cut into rectangles. Nice and crispy, travels well, and tastes great. Nothing like tollhouse cookies no matter what shape. I always pack a big disposable plastic container to share and a small one to keep for herself. BTW - the flat rate box fits the disposable containers well and I can pack other things around it.
One time I made a toll house cookie pizza on a disposable pizza pan. They had fun with that, too. | |
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04-09-2008, 08:40 PM
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#30 | | Member
Join Date: Dec 2006
Threads: 30
Posts: 946
| Bethievt - I want your recipe for the double chocolate cherry cookies - they sound great.
Puppy chow - that is one of my D's favorites. It is addictive. I will definitely be making that for her when she leaves for college - sniff sniff. | |
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