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2008-12-24 Baking for the Troops - A Mighty Appetite

Each shipment is a U. S. Postal Service flat-rate priority mail box. This box will hold two deep-dish food storage boxes (the kind that Giant sells for under usd. 3 for three). They fit in the cardboard box with no room to spare. Each food storage box is completely full of cookies -- from 24 to 48 cookies. I pack cookies in twos, flat sides together, in plastic wrap. Since the cookies are shared among members of the receiving unit, everyone can take a wrapped pack of two without feeling like theyve taken too many. This also helps keep the cookies fresh and protected against breakage.

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2008-12-23 Holiday Discipline

On average, Americans will gain eight pounds over the holiday season. Eight pounds are you kidding me. Although, I can see how it happens: holiday treats, drinks and endless plates of food. Every holiday season I help out my grandma and mom in the kitchen baking Christmas cookies. Now, anyone who knows me pretty well knows that cookies are my weakness. My favorite holiday cookies are spritz cookies. You color the dough and put it into a pastry gun and shoot out different shapes. My personal favorites are the Christmas trees. These are bite-size cookies and to just have one is quite nearly impossible. There are just way too many temptations with the holiday season and the food that comes with it. Below are a few tips I try to live by especially during the Holiday season:

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2008-12-17 Creating communities, one cookie at a time Rhode Island news The Providence Journal

In Smyrna, Ga. , a food blogger who is an assistant administrator at a middle school learned of Drop in and Decorate through Walshins blog. Christina Arpante saw it as a way for teachers at different grade levels in a large school to build new friendships and collegial relationships. With a cookie gathering once last year and once this holiday season, Arpante and her crew have given away 300 cookies.

Now, Walshin hosts Drop in and Decorates flagship event each year at her home for friends and family. Last week, they delivered 725 cookies to the Foster and Glocester food pantries, the Crossroads Rhode Island family shelter in South Providence and the Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence, which gives the cookies to six member shelters.

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2008-12-18 New York - Chocolate Candy Cane Cookies - Fork in the Road - Village Voice

While the cookies are baking, its time to make the buttercream filling. Again, butter temp is key. Once butter is at room temp, simply beat with powdered sugar then add peppermint extract and red food coloring. I add tons more peppermint than the recipe calls for, but slowly so as not to overdo it. With the rich chocolaty cookie and all the butter, I think the peppermint needs to be pretty crisp and strong to give a good counterpunch.

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2008-12-26 The Norman Transcript - Norman students sweeten lives

OKLAHOMA CITY -- The seven members of the Emma and Friends Cookie Club from Normans McKinley Elementary School wanted to help feed hungry Oklahomans this holiday season by selling homemade cookies and donating the proceeds to the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma. The Cookie Club sold more than 100 dozen cookies and, thanks to a dollar-for-dollar match by Chesapeake Energy and Devon Energy, collected over usd. 3,000, which will provide over 21,000 meals to hungry Oklahomans this holiday season.

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2009-01-07 Eating Mud Pies

Beans, condensed milk, and fruit have gone up at a similar rate, and even the price of the edible clay has risen over the past year by almost U. S. usd. 1. 50. Dirt to make a hundred cookies now costs U. S. usd. 5, the cookie makers say. Still, at about 5 cents apiece, the cookies are a bargain compared to food staples. About 80 percent of people in Haiti live on less than usd. U. S. 2 a day and

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When I was a kid, and a picky eater one, I remember adults used to say there are hungry people in Africa or Cambodia, to try to make us kids appreciate the food we have. I say these things to my kid too from time to time. He doesnt believe me. I cou

2009-01-01 Dine on food news at The Daily Loaf Tampa Restaurants and Bars Features

Contributor, shes produced our most widely read food piece of December -- a recipe for homemade Peppermint Bark and agrave; la Williams-Sonoma. In the spirit of the season, shes also given step-by-step instructions on how to spend an inordinate amount of time decorating simple sugar cookies to impress your family. This week, she cuts the effort with cute marshmallow snowmen you can throw together in minutes.

Katie graduated from the culinary arts program at the Art Institute of Tampa last year and sagely skipped the restaurant biz to become a food stylist at the Bay areas own Home Shopping Network. Shes wrangled dishes from Wolfgang Puck and Tyler Florence to make them pretty for the camera, but shes also a fine cook in her own right, having won the Art Institutes student Iron Chef competition her final year.

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2008-12-26 Baltimore Healthy Living Examiner: Dealing with relentless food offerers

Everyone knows at least one relentless food offerer (otherwise known as "food pusher"): The friend who offers you a second, third and fourth helping at her dinner table. The co-worker who brings in homemade fudge and cookies and passes them around the office. The grandmother who heaps another serving on your plate when youre not looking.

Split your portions. When you sit down to eat, fill your plate with half the portion you ultimately plan to eat. You will then be able to accept an offer of seconds and still consume the amount of food you intended. If youre offered even more food, you can say "Thank you, but Ive already had seconds and now Im full. "

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2008-12-31 Cafeteria food an ongoing problem

The meals are somewhat balanced, if oversized, but at the end of the lunch line students are greeted by the foods they are really interested in: cookies, chips, ice cream, large hot pretzels with melted cheese and juice slushies, all waiting for a fee. The juice slushies are heralded as "100 percent fruit juice," but dousing our students with all the sugar in juice of any kind cannot take the place of the nutrition in whole fruit.

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2008-12-22 NY1 24 Hour Local News NY1 Living Christmas Cookies In A Snap

At this time of year we have no time to do anything it seems and a lot of us have far less money than we did last year, so we came up with some great ideas to get gourmet cookies without ever turning on your oven. You can buy just a couple ingredients from your local grocery store and make something absolutely fabulous that would absolutely dazzle your friends and family," said Heather Morgan Shott, Senior Food Editor, .

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