Oh, Well That Was Interesting!

A friend's kid was doing a fundraiser for their school trip and long story short I bought three things of frozen cookie dough to "help"!

I was super excited to have this cookie dough over the winter and holidays so that I could have easy access to sweets without having to go buy a chocolate bar or an over-priced cookie or something. Note: I do have a recipe for cookies that I have made and I guess I just wanted something a little easier?

Last week the delivery of said cookie dough was made and I was a little ... perplexed?

I'm not sure what I had expected, but a giant blob of dough in a resealable bag was not it.  (I say this with amusement rather than upset or anger.)

But yay, I could now make cookies right?  Right!  

Except... duh (to me) the dough is frozen.  Hmmm.... I can't easily take it out of the pouch/bag and cut it in half.  Maybe I could thaw it and make a dozen or two today and another dozen or two in a couple of days?  Yeah, ok that.  

So I let it thaw and then scooped out little balls of dough, which wasn't easy! And baked up the sugar cookies (I'm finding it hard to find a good sugar cookie out there!) and was mildly disappointed in the result.  (But I ate three or four anyway)

I then asked my neighbour if she'd like the full bag of chocolate chip dough and she checked the ingredient list, wasn't thrilled by it but said sure.

She made up some of those and messaged me that they tasted very chemically and would I like a couple?  I said NOPE! (with a laugh) and then noticed my stomach feeling a little bit not happy and like it's not like the ingredient list was gnarly or anything but it did include palm oil and some other things that the cookies I make at home don't use or have and while my neighbour took her cookies to her Dad's (who liked them) and is taking the rest to a New Year's party in a few weeks, I actually composted mine and the rest of the frozen dough because I am trying to eat healthier in general and reduce my sugar NEEEEEEEEED and even though it felt a little wasteful and a little bit like I threw the money away I'm telling myself it'll help some kids do something fun and that it's better to compost the thing that is upsetting my stomach than to eat a thing I didn't really enjoy that my body doesn't really want.

But yeah, I guess going forward I'll either stick to the very simple cookie recipe I have that I know I enjoy or I'll buy a cookie that someone else made or something that just isn't a sack of frozen cookie dough.

Was still a fun idea though and good on me, I guess, for trying.