Girl Scout Cookies!

Day 140

It’s that time of year again. Yep, Girl Scout Cookie time.


I have two nieces who are Girl Scouts and I try to be a good uncle and buy at least one box from each of them. Yeah, I am buying cookies but it’s all for a good cause.

The cookies arrived last week and I picked up for and paid for my one box of thin mint cookies and my one box of Tagalongs.

Those who are familiar with Girl Scout Cookies know that Tagalongs are a chocolate covered peanut butter patty cookie and are just irresistible. I sat down to do some writing soon after picking up this year’s order from my sister’s kids and consumed the whole box of Tagalongs in one sitting. I swear that they don’t put as many cookies in each package as they used to but, nonetheless, I still chomped down that whole box within a time span of just ten minutes.

We all have our guilty eating pleasures and none of us is immune to them one-hundred percent of the time.

The box of Thin Mints I left on my sister’s dining room table with this note attached:



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A Simple Cinnamon Apple Oatmeal Recipe

Days 76 and 77

I actually did decide to have that cinnamon apple oatmeal on Friday morning and it was great! I made it in no time at all and it turned out just fine.

To make it you need:

- 1 apple, cored and cut into 6 equal pieces
- 1 cup of dry oatmeal
- 1 cup of Rice Dream (most oatmeal packages recommend water but I prefer milk or a milk substitute)
- A shaker of cinnamon

1. Mix the dry oatmeal and Rice Dream in a microwaveable serving bowl. (My recipe calls for one cup of each ingredient but you can customize the consistency of your oatmeal by varying the amounts.)

2. Microwave on high about 1-1/2 to 2 minutes.

3. Core and slice your apple. I recommend one of these; it will core your apple and slice it up in just one smooth step.

4. When the oatmeal is done cooking in the microwave, sprinkle some cinnamon on top then place the slices of apple on top as shown in the picture below.

Wait, wasn’t there something that was supposed to be special about this meal? The recipe is a real no-brainer—you can probably figure out how to make it from the title alone! But still, there is something special about this particular dish. Read on.

- The apple cost 49 cents at a Trader Joe’s.

- The drum of oatmeal cost $2.99 and contains about 30 servings. This recipe called for approximately one serving so $2.99/30 = .10 (rounded up from .099) is the cost of one oatmeal serving.

- The Rice Dream I used instead was from a 64 oz. container that cost me about $4.40. I used a cup (8 oz.) in the recipe. $4.40/8 = .55 cents.

So .49 + .10 + .55 = $1.14.

Not bad for a meal that includes three food groups and is made from quality, healthy ingredients. To get more out of this meal I recommend a nice, big cup of coffee (flavored with some unsulphured blackstrap molasses of course) and a veggie patty standing in for a sausage breakfast patty.

Remember that upcoming book I told you about from Supersize Me director Morgan Spurlock, Supersized: Strange Tales from a Fast-Food Culture? You can now pre-order it from Amazon here.

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