.: Cookies with a surprise ingredient

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Cookies with a surprise ingredient

About a month ago I discovered the bottom of our pantry was infested with moths. Every time I opened the pantry to get something out of it there was a moth flying around. I would kill one moth and then another would appear. I finally cleared everything out from the bottom shelf to discover moths everywhere….some dead, some alive and some inside opened bags of flour and baking products. I threw every opened thing away (just to be on the safe side) and I cleaned the bottom shelf absolutely spotless. There was no chance that any moth had survived my cleaning frenzy. Even though I threw out about 5 bags of opened flour (I use plain, rye, wholemeal, etc) I decided not to throw away one opened bag of oats. After a careful inspection and no sign of moths I figured it was okay to keep.

This weekend Tony decided to make chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies. They turned out delicious and all of us have eaten at least 8 each since they came out of the oven Saturday night.

Yesterday I decided I would make something I’ve been wanting to try for a long time…my own toasted muesli. I threw all the ingredients together and put it in the oven. As I was cleaning up the kitchen and putting all the ingredients away….the main ingredient being oats….I suddenly looked at the oats bag a little closer and got suspicious that there were not ‘just’ oats in the bag. I couldn’t figure out why the inside of the bag looked like it was covered with cobwebs. As I looked a little closer, I suddenly felt ill when I noticed tiny white slugs/worms crawling in the bag….not just one, two, three, four, five…but eight of them! How could I not have noticed!! But then again, who thinks to examine the inside of a bag when you are in the middle of making something. I felt sick to my stomach to see these little slugs crawling around. I felt even more sick to know that Tony had used the oats in the cookies and we had been eating them all weekend. I could almost taste them in my mouth just thinking about it! It’s one thing to be on fear factor and win money for eating bugs, but it’s another thing to end up eating them for no reason at all!

3 comments:

Jen said...: You poor things! That is truly disgusting. I will be checking my flour now!!; April 22, 2009 at 3:04 AM
Travis Hill said...: Hey, if moths are flying out of your pantry it's because they are laying lava/eggs - anything OPEN must go! Remeber that for next time:) the same thing happened to me at phils flat - we had little weavel looking things crawling around everywhere in the pantry - freak out!; April 22, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Anonymous said...: After you told me, last night I was paranoid looking in my pantry! A sure sign is the moths flying out isn't it?

I'm sure they're a good source of protein like huhu grubs!

Julia; May 7, 2009 at 9:23 PM

Funny Comments

Ashton walking into the supermarket quietly whispers to himself: "Please can I have macaroni and cheese, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."

Ashton: "I want to live with Jesus." Mummy: "Why?" Ashton: "Because he be nice to me and he gives me bread and water!"

Mummy, examining Ashton's legs, and thinking: My goodness, what hairy legs. Ashton, unimpressed with Mummy's examination, pulls away: "Don't touch them. I'm growing Daddy legs!"

Hayden gets upset at Ashton: "Right Ashton, that's it! I'm telling Jesus on you!"

Ashton with a cold: "I'm snotty as a piggy."

Hayden: "The sun is burning my eyeballs."

Hayden: "Mummy, how come your penis is missing?"

Hayden: "I get the bigger piece of cake because my skeleton is bigger."

Hayden (3yrs old) sees me get dressed in the morning and stares at my breasts with a confused look..."What thooooose be for???"

Hayden: "I don't want to finish my pizza, it's got blood all over it."

Hayden: "Ashton hit me in the heart."

Hayden learns the planets at Preschool: Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Penus!

Hayden (shopping with me and whining): "My brain hurts forever because you haven't buyed me anything."

QUOTES

Like the changing leaves of fall...My little boy is now a man.
--Author Unknown

Boys are God's way of telling you that your house is too neat!
--Author Unknown

There never has been, nor will there ever be, anything quite so special as the love between a mother and a son.
--Author Unknown

Boys are found everywhere - on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.
--Alan Marshall Beck

Something For A Giggle....

I Owe My Mother ....

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My mother taught me RELIGION. "You better pray that will come out of the carpet."

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My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT. "If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."

My mother taught me GENETICS. "You're just like your father."

My mother taught me about my ROOTS. "Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"

My mother taught me WISDOM. "When you get to be my age, you'll understand."

My mother taught me about JUSTICE. "One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!