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Evil things I should Stop Storing


Chocolate butter toffee almonds

I am ashamed to admit how many pounds of these were just delivered to my house.

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Oh do tell us! I'm about to order 25 lbs. of jawbreakers.

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Party at Dyany's!

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Man, I just thought of storing "treats" this week! imslow.gif

*bringing up the tail on the learning curve*

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Cocobeem wrote:

Man, I just thought of storing "treats" this week! imslow.gif

*bringing up the tail on the learning curve*



Yea that surprises us  biggrin







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Yeah Dyanny, that is pure evil! But yummy!!

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I struggle with the idea of storing treats somewhat. While I know that my kids would love it if I did store them. (Because we'd have to rotate through them, of course!)

I just realized how much they miss homemade treats in particular the last 2 days. I was put in charge of all the food (appetizers and dessert) for a ward function. For the desserts, I decided to make a couple of my old regulars from before I cleaned up my act -- cream cheese brownies and blackberry and peach thumbprint cookies (adapted from my never fail sugar cookie recipe.) I was a little bit nervous, because I know how yummy both of them are. giggle.gif Seriously though, sugar is my crack, people. I have never in my whole life been able to consume sugar in moderation. Never. Ever.

So, Thursday was baking day. Those sweet children all wanted to help every step of the way. And they worked themselves up into a tizzy over the possibility of me breaking a cookie or some of the brownie crumbling off while I cut them. Because then they got to eat them. My poor deprived children were practically begging for broken cookies and brownie crumbs. They also made me promise to bring home some leftovers if there were any. (I did.)

So, the dilemma is how I can store treat food in a manner that is safest for me. Because it's really not all about my weight, but the emotional and spiritual unrest that comes along with compulsive overeating. But it would also be selfish of me to not consider my family's preferences when I store food.

I did manage to get through the baking of over 12 dozen cookies and 4 big pans of brownies without eating ANY. Not a crumb. So it can be done. I just need to look at how to make it safest for me, even during my weaker moments when I would eat them. (Seriously, I've opened up cake mix boxes and eaten the mix straight with a spoon.)

I'll let you know what I figure out. confuse.gif


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The few times I've stored treats, we've "rotated through them" in a month or two, leaving the shelf bare.

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hiccups wrote:

I did manage to get through the baking of over 12 dozen cookies and 4 big pans of brownies without eating ANY. Not a crumb. So it can be done.


So consiered citizens of Bountiful wish to know: are you delegating to or asking for volunteers for  any of the baking from your fellow ward members??



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This was a one-time thing and I chose to do all the dessert myself. Breaking up the ingredients and typing instructions for others to follow would have been as much work as just doing it myself actually. It was fun to do... I haven't been in charge of food for an activity for a few years. If this was a regular occurrence I'd have been delegating hugely.

I could easily imagine myself as a rather overweight caterer if my life had gone just so. giggle.gif

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Back to the original topic, well sorta, I came up with a plan for getting some treats into our short-term food storage. I bought a half dozen cake and brownie mixes. (I'll add a few more during birthday season... this is the dry season in our house.) To rotate through them, I figure I'll bake (or have MrHic bake) one every month or so. And I can arrange to be away from the house during that time if I'm feeling tempted. Not perfect, but doable. The key here is that the cake mixes and brownie mixes are all chocolate. That sounds like it might be a bad thing, but I'm not huge on chocolate mix straight out of the box. :P



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maybe not chocolate mix straight out of the box, but if you mix it up without the eggs...yummy batter!!

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Hick, you could store elements of sweets that are less than appetizing by themselves. For instance, you can use cocoa in a cookie recipe, and you wind up with a fairly nice cookie. But I haven't known even hard core chocoholics to eat cocoa, because by itself it's pretty gross. The rest of the ingredients, such as flour, baking powder, and butter (or shortening) are not temptations to sweet lovers by themselves. The only exception to that is sugar, but if you put it in a #10 can, at least you have to go through the trouble of opening it. Or just store honey. It's much better for you.

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arbilad you are right on!


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Hey, hic, would you mind sharing the blackberry/peach cookie recipe, that sounds good.

The problem with storing treats is that they do not store long with me!

We do have canned pudding, canned pie fillers, MRE shakes, things like that. Just wish I could have a year's supply of A&W diet root beer, that would be a couple of pallets full, maybe a pallet of diet Coke too.

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Hey Dy, maybe you should start putting back a years' supply of insulin, too. giggle.gif

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This is the sugar cookie recipe I adapted for the cookies, Val. http://www.bbonline.com/recipe/riverhill_ny_recipe2.html

I used vanilla extract instead of lemon flavor. I made them according to the directions. After flattening them with the glass dipped in sugar I pushed my thumb down in the middle and then piped jam into the indentation. (I had put the jam into an icing bag which makes the whole process much speedier.) The jam can be whatever kind you like. The recipe makes about 6 dozen. I baked them at 375 degrees for 7 minutes.

This sugar cookie recipe has been my favorite for years. The cookies never get thin and flat as long as I keep the dough chilled, so if you make up a sheet of the cookies before there is room in the oven, pop them into the fridge. Same with the dough, keep it in the fridge when you're not using it. The dough also freezes for later use very well.

I've yet to ever get a bad recipe from that http://www.bbonline.com/recipe site. I think having the Bed and Breakfast's name on a recipe keeps them high quality. And if you think about it, B&B chefs are gonna know what people likeand what works well. thumbsup.gif

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I have a years' supply of chocolate chips, and jello, and cake mix.

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I like cake mix for my year's supply because it's a great way to make super easy super yummy cobbler with my canned fruit. I just add a little splenda to the fruit in a 9x13 pan, then sprinkle the yellow or white cake mix on top. With the right fruit I add a little flavoring -- like almond extract to cherries or cinnamon/nutmeg to the cake mix with other fruit -- and then cut up a stick of butter on top of the cake mix. Bake until bubbly and a little thicker. It's SO TASTY.

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Dyany I do basically the same thing though I melt the stick of butter and stir it into the cake mix and then drop spoonfuls on top of the fruit. Your way sounds easier though! I'll have to try it next time.


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Angel food cake mix is like the ultimate food storage cake. Just add water, and you end up with massive pieces of cake that make your kids feel like they've hit the jackpot.

Oh, and just a family story. When I was a kid, my father did a legal case for some Moonies that had run into problems while in town. They couldn't pay him much, so we ended up with boxes and boxes and boxes of Peppermint Patties that dad stored in the garage. Good times.

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I am going to get the canner from the dry packer and can some "goodies". I hate to ever open one of those cans because my brain says it is long term storage so that will make it safer. I will also mark it with a name that isn't obvious to my kids. This is in addition of course to my brownie, cookie and cake mix storage and my bucket of chocolate chips to use in my whole wheat chocolate chip cookie recipe. I am going to pay attention after holidays to the half price stuff from now on and see what else I can add. Rite Aid has M&M's on sale this week buy one get one free. I wonder if they will store well in cold place? I know from sad (very sad) experience that the peanut M&M's go rancid.

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rancid peanut m&m's....ICK bleh

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dianoia - Ahhh... the 70s were the years of bartering weren't they? Part of the 80s, too, I guess. My dad got a truck and camper for one of his cases. Good times, indeed. We also got a 1/2 Wolf 1/2 Malamute shipped down from Alaska. Had him until he died. Former lead sled dog. So pretty - people would stop - photographers or artists and want to use him as a subject.

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Ooh, I just thought of something else to do for short-term storage of treats. I think along with brownies or cake once a month, I'm going to make a healthy (sugar-free, non white flour) treat once a month. They ate up the sugar-free pumpkin pie I made yesterday, so this should work. thumbsup.gif

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