Yesterday after I worked my 5 hours overtime for my job (detest working Saturdays, but that time and a half pay is nearly a fair reward for the sacrifice).... I finished my online grocery order and later went to pick it up.
In that order, I had chosen this box of Dewey's Triple Ginger Cookie Thins.
I had never bought a box for myself before (and probably should never again).... but had bought a box for my Mom a few weeks back as a tiny surprise when I visited her. She loves spicy things and I didn't know if she had tried them before or not. I love taking her little extras when I go. We had opened them and I had tried 1... really.... just one .... and thought they were good. Then I kind of forgot about them till I saw them while making my grocery list on the store site.
So early yesterday evening I opened them up after I ate my supper.
...and this morning, this is what was left. I ate over a half of a sleeve of these things ! I didn't eat them all at once, but through the evening and early into this morning (I didn't go to bed till 2 am), from time to time I would have "just a couple more"
I counted them just now and if I am right, I ate a total of 24 ! OMGoodness !
(look, Dewey put one of his cookies in backwards 😉 )
The company that made these is less than an hour away from where I live. The info on the box says they have been baking these and their other Moravian style items since 1930. They make other things too, including the Moravian Sugar Cake, which sells in some of the better grocery stores around here during the Christmas season and let me tell you, if you like sweets, you would adore this melt-in-your-mouth delight. I could probably never describe to you exactly how good it is.
uh hem... but back to the cookies. They are so highly flavored and occasionally you actually end up with the tiniest chewy bit of real ginger.
They are very thin and the box says that a serving is 8 cookies, for a total of 120 calories. So of course you know what THAT means since it seems I consumed 24 through the evening. Being that they are so strongly flavorful though, a normal person could probably eat three slowly, bit by bit and be totally satisfied.
That's right, I'm not normal.... ha ha
....and of course, since I took this cookie out for the photo shoot this morning, it would be unsanitary to put it back, so I had to eat it.
I'm betting the rest of that first sleeve will have disappeared by bedtime this evening. It will be a miracle if it doesn't !
