For the first time since I began this, junk food is coming into the house, help!
My daughter was having a fund raiser about 5-6 wks ago, and I bought two tubs of cookie dough( oatmeal raisin, and chocolate chip/walnut chunk). I can't through them out, what do I do? I am not tempted to eat it at this moment, but know if they are in the house and I m bored I will eat them. I don't want to through it out, and don't know what to do. Any ideas.
tia cheryl
You know I have just started this myself, but I know exactly what you are going through. I just fought with my hubby about his wanting to bring junk food in the house - You CAN"T have it there - I know how hard it is to get back on once you fall off - I just recently gained back thirty pounds I had lost. I would throw it in the garbage and put something really terrible on it that will make it inedible - like dish soap or something so you can't change your mind. It is not worth the danger to you to have it in the house. DO IT WHILE YOU ARE BEING STRONG!!!!
Why is it that you can't throw them out? Because you paid money or because your daughter would be upset? If it's because you paid money, what is worth more to you, your cookies or your health? If it's b/c of your daughter, maybe you could promise to make her some healthier dessert alternatives, like LF cookies or single-serving brownies (a la No Pudge). In any case, you *are* her mother, and throwing it out would do both of you some good.
I hear ya though - I *hate* throwing stuff out, too.
I've never ordered the cookie dough from my son's school fund raisers-I could not have a whole tub of it in the house-no way!!!!! Do you have a friend you can give it to? I'm sure someone would be happy to take it.
Or bake the cookies and bring them to work? Whenever I brought food into work it would disappear in under thirty minutes.
Throw it out or give as a gift. Next time, consider just writing a check to the worthy cause in lieu of ordering product.
Romeo's Girly had a post I just loved in a similar thread:
Don't think about their supermarket value, think about their nutritional value, which is ZERO. Anything that can make your life that miserable deserves to be dumped
Bake them all and take them to church or school or senior center or any place that helps the community (our local Braille institute loves getting cookies).
Put them in the car straight away and take them to someone who would use them. If not a homeless shelter how about a daycare center or a nursing home? I agree with everyone that says they shouldn't be in the house. If you have no one to whom you could donate them then I think the trash would be a better option than keeping them.
Great ideas from everyone. Perhaps next time you can donate the money you would have paid for the cookie dough and then let them re-sell it. That's what I've done for a long time with GIrl Scout cookies. In fact, the GS people now have a program where you can "buy" a box, and they give the cookies you've "bought" to the shelter.
Sheila - that's how I do all fundraisers! I hate those things!!!! Whenever the kids bring one home I just write a check to the school and throw out the order forms. I think the school probably comes out way ahead because they keep the entire check.
I was going to say if they're still not open, what a fun gift for a kid! Kids are always having birthdays. Maybe your daughter can give the cookie dough as a gift with a promise to come over to help the birthday kid bake the cookies?
Cookie dough has never had any appeal to me. Brownie batter is another matter entirely.
I was going to say if they're still not open, what a fun gift for a kid! Kids are always having birthdays. Maybe your daughter can give the cookie dough as a gift with a promise to come over to help the birthday kid bake the cookies?
Cookie dough has never had any appeal to me. Brownie batter is another matter entirely.
For the first time since I began this, junk food is coming into the house, help!
