Jen's Journal

I believe the answer is about ? dozen less than what she had just eaten. Can we really blame her for her indulgence? Damn rights we can. She should have known from past experiences that she should only buy the number of cookies she will comfortably eat in one sitting.

The visit to the produce store at lunch was the start of all the trouble. She headed up with the best intentions, fruits, vegetables and some burrito shells for a healthy dinner. On the way to the till they had slyly placed the huge COOKIE display, (ok, I am lying, it is hiding in the back corner and the only reason Jen went past there was to buy cookies), but let?s blame the produce store and their clever product placement.

Back at work, (four cookies later), Jen tried to stop the munching by checking the Voortman cookie website. This was in hopes of finding product information proving she was poisoning herself one delicious shortbread cookie at a time. No luck, and really no surprise, there were no fat/calorie/carbohydrate counts or an ingredient list. Jen merely found a picture of ten, (suspicious slender), employees and a clever flash media player spinning the various cookies.

Long story short the cookie jar at home will be empty for one more day.

On a short, somewhat related aside:
If you are eating those little milk chocolate Easter eggs, you know the ones wrapped in shiny, seasonally coloured, tinfoil, take a quick step back and read the package. ?Chocolate flavoured candy? was what I read on my most recent purchase. If you wonder what makes the chocolate flavour it is probably the soybean oil and sucrose/fructose mixture, number one and two on the ingredients. Long live chocolate flavoured soybean oil.