Lost Cookies

A couple of weeks ago I bought some 'healthy' cookies at the grocery store.  I put healthy in quotes because even though they have more fiber and fruit than other cookies, I really don't believe that they are healthy.  I better option that regular cookies, yes, but healthy I don't think so.

I got them because sometimes I just gotta have a cookie.  They were also on sale and I had  a coupon.  When I got home with the cookies I had a hard time deciding where to put them.  I rarely buy cookies so we don't have a place in our kitchen for cookies.  I bake more often than buy cookies, but those are mostly for a reason.  Those are usually wrapped to take someplace or arranged on a nice plate.

I didn't want to leave the cookies out or in any place I might routinely see them.  I know myself well enough to know that if I saw the cookies I would eat them.  These were to be emergency cookies.  I found a place, put them away and promptly forgot about them.  Really.

Yesterday, I started jonesin' for a cookie.  Initially, I did not remember the hidden cookies and began looking for a distraction.  That worked for a bit, but I really, really wanted a cookie. So I began to look for a substitute.  Watermelon took the edge off initially but sometime later.  I.wanted.a.cookie! 

I remembered then the hidden healthy cookies.  The problem was I could not remember the hiding place.  I looked and looked and looked for those cookies.  They were not to be found.  Once I knew there were cookies in the house, I had to have one.  Several times during the course of the day, I looked for the cookies but to no avail. 

Finally, I asked 65MD if he'd seen the cookies. He had not.  I described the package and he said he'd be on the lookout for them, but he did not look for the cookies.  Apparently, he did not understand my great need for a cookie!!!

I kept going about my day and had the thought of the lost cookies rolling around in the back of my head.  I was hoping for a sudden realization of their whereabouts.  Thankfully, I remained in control of myself enough that I didn't pile in a bunch of other useless garbage to satisfy my craving.  I knew that only a cookie would do.

At supper time last night, I still had not found the cookies.  65MD and I decided to have a clean out the refrigerator supper.  It is where we eat leftovers from days before.  We get out all of the little containers of this & that, fill our plates, heat & eat.  As a part of that process, I opened the crisper drawer to see if anything was languishing in there.  Low & behold, behind the pineapple, were the COOKIES!!!!!

Immediately, I remembered putting them there, knowing they would be out of sight.  But not thinking about my feeble mind!  I had a nice dinner of a leftover chicken breast on a bed of salad greens from our garden.  Then I had two apple & oat cookies.  I put them back in the crisper drawer.  The only problem now is I know they are there!  Being forgetful can only help so much.