Ilove cookies. Who doesn’t? But just because I love them it doesn’t mean that I eat a lot of them.

Cookies are that perfect combination of sugar, fat, and salt that exemplifies addictive foods and I find that the more I eat, the more I want to eat.

Still, I treat myself to cookies occasionally, especially at this time of the year. My favorite is homemade iced sugar cookies made with butter because if I am going to eat a cookie, I want something baked from scratch.

The mass-produced, packaged cookies on the grocery store shelf come with ingredients you would never use in your home, like preservatives, fillers, artificial colors, etc.

For example here is the list of ingredients in a very famous chocolate chip cookie: Unbleached Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine

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