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Originally Posted by margaretmattson
Where do you buy your pantry items? Sur La Table or a different expensive store? $5 - $6 per cookie at Crumbl, your list of pantry items is relatively the same cost. However, after making two dozen cookies, you have remaining staples to use. The remaining eggs can be used for breakfast, or hard boiled for salads or lunch. Walnuts can be used dozens of ways not only for desserts. Cinnamon can be sprinkled onto toast, cereal, into tea or coffee. Or, a cinnamon glaze can be made to serve with sweet potatoes. Sugar and lemon will make lemonade or a lemon curd to top on fresh scones. Brown sugar and vanilla will make an excellent caramel sauce. Of course, several more baked goods can be made. They can be frozen to eat at a later date if you choose. There are hundreds and hundreds of ways to use pantry staples. In the long run, buying the pantry staples is the better option. However, I realize some do not know how to cook. Most likely, they will throw the remaining pantry staples away.If this is your case, enjoy those Crumbl cookies!
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Looking at it that way, I can make cookies at home for free. If I previously bought all those pantry items for the purposes you list above then the money is already spent. The items are sitting in my house waiting to be used and if I don't use them soon some of them will spoil and need to be discarded. I don't have to spend any money to make the cookies, the ingredients are already in my home, but I could even look at it as if it was putting money back into my pocket since I used the items rather than throwing them away.
I didn't want to inventory my house, I didn't want to get in my steps walking the grocery store aisles, I didn't want to have my AC battle my oven over the room temperature, I didn't want to find space in my freezer to store unbaked dough, I didn't want to rearrange the dirty dishes in my dishwasher to make room for the mixing bowl and baking sheets, and I didn't want to page through cookbooks looking to find recipes to use the leftover pantry items. I just wanted three cookies with different flavors.