Back in October, I wrote about the fat traps that were killing me. I thought the chocolate mint Girl Guide cookies were bad. I have found out otherwise. It is not the Fall cookies that are harmful to my well being, but instead the Spring lot. The vanilla and chocolate cream filled fat traps. I have 2 cases sitting in our house. 2 Cases minus 2 boxes, thanks to yours truly and we have only had them for a day.

Never mind Philly cream cheeses, these things are a little piece of heaven. And they are addictive. Last time we only had one case of the mint cookies to sell. This time I thought, Well, hey, these ones are waaayy more popular than the mint cookies, so I need to have 2 cases for EvieG to sell. Secretly, you know I was thinking that I needed to have more boxes hanging around to get into myself. Blah. Shame on me.

Here's the breakdown per 2 cookies:

-140 calories
-6g of fat
-0g cholesterol (thank the heavens above)
-21g of carbs, 10g of which is sugar and 0g of fibre
- 1g protein
-4% iron for my anemic friends

Today I have already received 12% of my daily iron intake. After tonight's meat lasagna, I will feel like I accomplished something today.

Here's the thing with these fat traps- you get 20 cookies per box. 10 vanilla and 10 chocolate. The box is evenly split. If you have one chocolate cookie and no vanilla, it completely throws the dynamics of the cookie ratio out of whack. You must eat the vanilla cookie with the chocolate one to keep the box balanced. Even. By not maintaining equal representation of vanilla to chocolate, you do not sit well until all is 50/50. And so you eat. And eat. Before you know it, you have hit half of your daily caloric intake and it doesn't even technically count as a real meal. But I make it into one. Today I had a good lunch of 6 Girl Guide cookies.

I did this to myself. Call it self-loathing, I don't know. I KNEW I would get into them even though I tried to hide the cases in the laundry room. And the other thing about this? The other thing is that we don't know as many people here as we did in our other town. There, it was easier to sell the ONE case of mint cookies off. Now I have 2 cases (to be clear, that's 24 boxes of cookies) sitting in the small space. The laundry room is just an extension of the kitchen. I might as well have them beside my bed.

Crap.

I had every intention of having EvieG sell some yesterday to my family who came to visit. But then we forgot and after I closed the door I realized that I still had unsold cookies sitting there.

At $4 a box, I am in debt $8 already. I say that by the end of it all, I will probably be financially responsible for one case at $48.

Fifty bucks on fat traps when I could have bought something worthwhile.

Hey, at least I am supporting the "programming and activities for girls across Canada." As I sit and get fat off their cookies, I can contribute to the well rounded healthy experience and opportunity a girl can get with the Girl Guides of Canada.

Is that irony?

All's I'm sayin's all.

Labels: DDM, EvieG, Responsibility