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In a completely undiet/fitness advice asking journal..
The kids always sign up to bring something to each holiday party. My daughter and her best friend both signed up for the halloween snack. All week now I have asked her.. what is the friend bringing? The friend didn't know. So Wendesday morning was the only day I had to shop and get something to make. The daughter didn't want some prepacked treat she wanted to be creative.. so ok. She decides we are making cupcakes. I told her before she went to school to tell her friend and I would pick up the stuff over my lunch hour. Instead of you know.. eating lunch while I run around like a mad woman attempting to get back to work on time so my boss doesn't rain holy heck on me.
I get home.. feed the baby.. get ready to go ride the lawn mower with little man when her "friend" calls. She's bringing cupcakes. Supposedly she's been bringing cupcakes she just didn't want to say. UH HUH. I told the daughter to hang up to avoid me being heard in the background like a raving lunatic.
I've already spent $40 on cupcake supplies. Cupcakes I don't want in my home. Three different varieties of cake mix, frosting, sprinkles, and strange skull treats to put on top. A freaking cupcake tray to get them there without them becoming cupcake hockey pucks. At this point I just threw my hands in the air and told her to tell her "friend" the class was going to have alot of cupcakes. I'm not packing up a baby, a toddler, and her to go an hour into town to pick up more supplies and spend more money because it isn't possible for me to go anytime but after I get home from work which is in the city, pick the kids up from daycare, turn AROUND and drive another hour.. and go back into the city and shop.. with the holy terrors that are my children. No! Just NO! I have enough between work, the farm, the kids, the cows, and life. I'm not being sucked into the cupcake crime of 2014.
So.. the daughter is smart enough she's going along with this. It is currently the plan to overload her class with cupcakes. Really?? Who can have too many cupcakes? But in a last ditch effort I have to ask. Is there something else that could be made with cupcakes ingrediants that wouldn't be a cupcake? How it's possible to make something other than a cupcake out of cupcake ingrediants I have no clue.. but you guys are amazing and I haven't had sleep in 2 months. Maybe its possible. Maybe my missing cell phone is in the freezer. Maybe I need to suck my thumb now so I avoid eating a tray of freaking cupcakes.
I hate cupcakes now.
Diet Calendar Entry for 30 October 2014:
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1444 kcal
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Fat: 59.03g | Prot: 86.98g | Carb: 144.37g.
Breakfast: Atkins Advantage Milk Chocolate Delight Shake, Dunkin' Donuts Extra Extra Coffee Creamer, Coffee (Brewed From Grounds), Egg, Turkey Breakfast Sausage, Great Value Shredded Mild Cheddar Cheese. Lunch: Chobani Nonfat Black Cherry Greek Yogurt (Container), Healthy Choice Cafe Steamers Asian Inspired Kung Pao Chicken, Carrots, Bananas. Snacks/Other: M&M's Peanut Butter M&M's (Package). more...
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WOW that sounds very frustrating. Sorry but the only thing I know to do with cupcake supplies is make cake or cupcakes.
30 Oct 14 by member: unamoyer
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I can't think of anything, but I'm sure your cupcakes will blow the other ones out of the water!
30 Oct 14 by member: Lindsay6384
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You can make cookies with cake mix and you could put frosting in between and make them sandwich cookies and maybe a dab of frosting on the top to stick the rings on. You could put the sprinkles on the outside of the cookies before you bake them or when you put the frosting either inside or on top you could either roll them in sprinkles or just use the sprinkles on top. And if you have liners that you want to use, if the cookies are small enough you could still put them in the liners to send to school. You can find cake mix cookie recipes online. My kids have to bring prepackaged foods, no homemade allowed, so we did treat bags with rice krispies treats, fruit snacks, a glow stick, a pencil, and tattoos. Class parties can be about the death of us moms. Good luck!!
30 Oct 14 by member: mars2kids
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I agree with Mars2kids, cookies are the way to go.
30 Oct 14 by member: lettygaylor
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Mars you are my hero! You need a cape. I will run it past the preteen tonight when I get home. :)
30 Oct 14 by member: Ms Elizabeth
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Well, the batter more or less is the same to make cake, cupcake, etc. You might consider "cake pops", but that would require either lollipop sticks or perhaps bamboo skewers? (don't want to complicate things at all!) Good luck to you.
30 Oct 14 by member: Zeddie274
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Are you kidding me?!!!...You have enough on your plate. Make the cupcakes!! The kids will not think twice about having 2 cupcakes and you will have saved yourself a boatload of headache! ...(wow! I was more opinionated on this subject than is rational...probably flashbacks of 6 sons and their class party fiascoes)
30 Oct 14 by member: Hipaagrammy
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You can make cookies out of cake mixes and then use the frosting and stuff to decorate them...
30 Oct 14 by member: lovesturtles
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I was going to suggest that as well, you can make nice soft cookies out of cake/cupcake mixes and decorate them up.
30 Oct 14 by member: ammittai
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Amendment to above...all you need is "1/2 cup vegetable oil, 2 eggs, and one 15 oz box cake mix. Bake the cookies for 12-14 minutes at 350 F. They will be puffy and look like they're not done when they first come out of the oven, but will flatten and firm up as they cool. They should be nicely browned on the bottom but stay light on top. They dry out super fast if you keep them in the oven too long, so be careful. :)"
30 Oct 14 by member: ammittai
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I think having Lots of cupcakes sounds like a plan! (^_^) Nine days from now, no one will ever care that there were more than enough cupcakes at the party, and if your daughter's class was like the classes I taught, the boys will eat everything, anyway! Make cupcakes and have fun!... little girl friends are sometimes a pain, aren't they, ha!
31 Oct 14 by member: jn-davis
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How pre-teen we talking here? It's time for you to teach that kid how to bake! We did that with our daughter and it worked out great. Well... sort of. The house was never without chocolate chip cookies. :(
31 Oct 14 by member: northernmusician
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By the way. Nothing wrong with teaching the kid how to make a family meal too. She'll even appreciate - when she hits about 25. Until then, watch out for the 'Can I cook for my bf' concept. Boys will eat you out of house and home. Don't adopt them until they bring a ring.
31 Oct 14 by member: northernmusician
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Northernmusician- I have a kid who loves to bake and I hear you on the chocolate chip cookies, if it's not those it's something equally as delicious. I think it's good for them to learn baking and cooking, it's a life skill they will need. And for us the baking lead to wanting to help cook dinner and she is now capable of making all sorts of things and it has truly helped us when we are busy. DFW, maybe if she doesn't know how to bake/cook, she could learn some easy things at least that would help you when you feel like your drowning in house work, chores, work, activities, etc.
31 Oct 14 by member: mars2kids
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I was going to suggest the pops, but yes, too much work. Northern is right. I learned to cook at 12 and started cooking for a family of 6 almost every day. And a lot of girls love to bake. If nothing else, you bake and let her decorate. And whoever said the kids won't care if they have 2 cupcakes is right. The kids here after allowed to have parties.
31 Oct 14 by member: msbuggirl
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