Thy name is Suzie
Homemaker. I bake cookies.
Bring on the butter.
Suzie Homemaker’s logic for baking oatmeal chocolate chip cookies…
1. OATmeal=HEALTHY. Even when the OATmeal is surrounded by butter, sugar, and chocolate chips.
2. There’s no need to add raisins to oatmeal cookies. This would be a healthy overload. The OATmeal is sufficient.
3. Butter is a better, healthier choice than Crisco or margarine. Crisco=lard. Margarine=weird hydrogenated oils. Butter=pure heaven from a cow. Therefore butter=healthy.
4. OATmeal (cookies) can indeed be a part of one day dieting. One must only eat half a cookie at a time. 8 halves of a cookie do not actually equal 4 cookies when you properly do cookie math. Cookie math is very complicated. No time to fully explain here, just trust me.
5. One must entertain the children on these long, cold winter days. What better than a enriching and educational lesson in measuring, mixing, baking, and tasting?
I agree, oatmeal is healthy, in all scenarios, especially those containing butter, sugar, and chocolate chips.
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If I had your kitchen I would be baking my tushy off all the time!
Those cookies look DEEEEElicious!
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This makes complete sense to me.
Now I feel like baking something!
And think of all the fiber!
That batter looks incredible.
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Yummmmm. I just baked Oatmeal butterscotch chip cookies. And I also always use only butter. MUCH better.
You know, I think baking cookies has gotten a bad rap. I literally turned out a whole batch and cleaned the kitchen in 45 minutes while also getting my kids ready for bed. I also make large cookies which saves time. It is not that I am by any means a super mom (not by a long shot), it just really doesn’t take that much time.
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okay…i am so with you. oatmeal does it for me too!:-) (but i use half butter and half margarine, i like how the cookies turn out…better, i think!) maybe cookies this wekeend…
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I do believe butter is far healthier than anything else….margarine pretty much turns to plastic. Ewww!
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first of all…you kitchen is gorgeous!! you must be so happy that your new house has such an incredibly pretty kitchen.
2nd…yummy sounding cookies…i loooooove oatmeal RAISIN cookies…to me, chocolate chips don’t belong in there…but, yes…butter does…most definitely butter!! the real stuff!!
I love your butter logic. I follow the same train of thought.
Your new kitchen is beautiful!
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Right on! Yummmmmmmmmmm
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OF course they’re healthy.
Want to make them healthier and moister? Use applesauce instead of the oil. OMG.
FABULOUS!!!!!
The kitchen, gorgous.
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yum!!
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Totally jealous of that kitchen. TOTALLY.
And now I am so making oatmeal choc chip cookies – with raisins, too. MMMM, like a oaty Cadbury Fruit n’ Nut bar. Yum! Thanks for the inspiration!
MMMM…and extremely logical.
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Cookie math is very complicated. Now I want some oatmeal cookies – no raisins!
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& this is why I love you. Oatmeal cookies are my fave!
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I love your logic! So, what you’re saying is chocolate is healthy for the fact that it is a bean (healthy) & made with milk (healthy)?
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Yum! I think those look perfectly healthy. Just like peanut butter cookies – because HELLO, peanut butter=protein=good for you. Everyone knows that.
Besides, they are probably better for you than if you had just bought them at the store. Besides, it was like a mini-workout to make them.
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Oatmeal! Heart Health! Woot!
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I’m new here……
And now my mouth is watering for some oatmeal cookies….yum!
I’m on a diet though and I’m pretty sure these cookies would be a sin! *sigh*
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My mouth is watering. My keyboard is full of drool now. Thanks soooo much! And please post the formula for cookie math! I could really use it!
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Those look very good.
I might have to make some now.
You have inspired me.
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oh, I am sooooo making “healthy” oatmeal cookies today.
Thanks for the inspiration!
I agree completely! So yummy. I froze little oatmeal cookie dough balls so that I can quickly cook a small batch instead of a whole bunch in order to still keep them completely healthy. So delish. Will be pulling some of those out tonight in order to balance the meal
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Baking has become a great passion of mine. But baking is NOTHING without the BUTTER! I love butter! Apparently so do my thighs!
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LOL..Thats my kind of math!
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Jesus H. Tapdancin’ Christ that looks good. I just want to shove my face in the bowl.
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I always tell myself that treats made with organic milk, eggs and butter are even twice as good for you. I mean dairy and protien and no chemicals…..it’s like non calorie cookies.
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YUM!! I LOVE the way you think!
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WHAT a beeeeeeautiful kitchen – WOW! I hope I can get so lucky!!!
I tried my hand at the Haiku Friday today. woo hoo!
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You forgot how OATmeal is good for the bowels.
OATmeal cookies are total health food for kids and adults alike!
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YUM! Now I want some healthy cookies!!
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Girl, I am mad jealous of your kitchen.
Happy baking! I do love me some cookies.
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Yum!!! Oatmeal cookies make my mouth water and almost make me want to bake … almost. Methinks I’m going for a walk with Molly who won’t leave me alone. Then I’ll return to read more Haiku. I think I’ve figured out how I keep missing you because your link doesn’t show up in the Mr. Linky (that seems to be linked with the one at Mommy Story), but I plan to add it to MY Haiku posts along with A Mommy Story from now on so that I remember to check yours too.
Hugs and blessings,
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Wow….Yumscious.
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I know you were being tongue-in-cheek, but those reasons are actually really valid. Except you HAVE to have raisins in Oatmeal choco chip cookies!
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Darn it, I just baked some pineapple muffins yesterday, so I won’t be baking again until at least May. And I really want some cookies now…
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#4 is my favorite…excellent reasoning! I am a fan of the half a cookie eating.
Now my dh doesn’t understand my logic. He always asks why I dont’ I just eat the whole thing cuz he knows I will eventually…can’t do it dude then I would feel fat if I ate the whole cookie at once. Duh!
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man, I have no words.
Im a fromthetube woman and no other reason than my husband prefers those (?) and my 2 year old as of yet isnt into baking.
tho I type that and wonder if she IS and Im missing the boat.
duly noted and shall explore this afternoon.
the books up there to the left? do you discuss em with us?
read Digging To America? Trail of Crumbs?
In my first life (read (ha ha): premama) I was a voracious reader.
M.
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I think your points are truly valid–we try to bake at least once a week (my three year old and I just finished making pizza dough) and absolutely BUTTER is way better for you than the fake crap
Pretty countertops!
sorry–typed in wrong website but hey I can make a mean cookie
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Your photos did not inspire me to bake oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. They did, however, inspire me to eat one from the bag of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies I’d purchased yesterday at a bakery. It was as big as my face. I’m going to go cry now … about the size of the cookie and the fact that my kitchen, unlike yours, is ugly as a mud fence.
Cookie math!!! Now THAT kind of math I think I can get. Awesome!
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You do math like I do math! And nice kitchen there Suzie Q!
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Ahhh You’re up now!! I came here to sign your Mr. Linky and nothing. Now I know that you were just busy putting on your apron! LOL I made No-Bake today.
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Oatmeal is ALWAYS good for you, duh.
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So rockin’ on! You, Lady, know all the RIGHT reasons for baking cookies!
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Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are my very favorite kind of cookie. Yummy texture and chocolate chips. You can’t beat it!
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Ugh. Stupid computer…I’ve been trying ALL.DAY to see your blog!! I’ve felt very Binky-deprived. That’s not a good feeling
On the other hand, those cookies look DELISH!!! Almost delicious enough to get in the car and head up your way….*glances at ominous clouds to the west* On the other hand…maybe I could make some myself…I think I have some oats left in the cabinet…and I KNOW I have chocolate chips *lol*
Looks yummy!! Hope the sugar rush helped brighten your snowy day!!
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I want some of your oatmeal cookies – I HATE it when they ruin perfectly good oatmeal cookies with those things.
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