I just made heart shaped cookies the other day. I use a marble rolling pin which I love and a Tupperware plastic mat to roll out the dough on (it is very old -- I don't know if they still make it). I like using the mat because I can put it in the sink and make sure it is really clean (I cannot put my granite counters in the sink and rinse them well). Anyhow, I always use this recipe from Taste of Home and they are THE BEST SUGAR COOKIES EVER! The secret that sets them apart is the 3 oz of cream cheese. You don't taste the cc in the recipe, but it makes them so yummy. I make the dough the night before and divide it into thirds to roll out. It is quite hard when right out of the refrig, so I let it sit for bit and then smash it down with my hands before rolling. A little flour when rolling out has never hurt these cookies. My other trick is, after rolling out the dough, use a thin metal spatula to unstick the dough from the mat before using the cookie cutters (metal is better, not plastic). Also, don't roll cookie dough too thin and only bake until you see a hint of brown on the edges or they will be crumbly. The end. Here is a link that might be useful: Sugar Cookies

Adding in: coffee and tea, vinegar, mustard. Umm, wine. I seldom eat mayo or ketchup. grainlady, thanks for the seven survival foods -- I'd have to test the dried egg things to see if I react badly to them or not. One reason I plan to have chickens when I move! I know I am fine with whole eggs, and I go through about ten a week. I do keep coconut milk here, and will occasionally want milk-milk (as milk or as yogurt). I use butter or ghee, but it takes me about three or four months to go through a pound package. Fats - yes, to coconut oil, or to having some sort of healthy oil around -- I do use various types regularly. And there is plenty of coconut oil here. Citrus juice - I use a lot of lemon, lime and grapefruit, at the moment all fresh. Potatoes - I have a load of them from the farmer's markets I went to shortly before my accident. They are dwindling, but very good. I'll check out Golden Grill Hashbrown potatoes. Sound good to me! I have canned beef and pork (a friend and I put up); I have several packages of sardines (bought), I have canned cheese. I'm not really jonesing for the canned cheese, however. Not something that falls into the category of want to have every week/frequently. (Actually, the milk doesn't fall into that category, either...) Will have to check out freeze dried cheese. Maybe that tastes better. I still mean to order the tomato powder. Haven't really had any real urge for grains, beans/legumes or seeds. (And I have them here - grains being rice, wild rice, quinoa, and oatmeal) Seeds for sprouting micro-greens or just plain sprouts - great idea!!! Sweeteners -- Haven't touched either my honey, the maple syrup, or the palm sugar I have here. Yes, I did eat some dessert things people dropped off, but just out of obligation, not out of desire. Not a "staple" I really do want to eat every week!

shambo, I make nearly any kind of drop cookie ahead, freeze them on trays and then package them up in bags. When I bake them, I just let them thaw on baking trays and pop them in the oven, I find they come out better when thawed than when baked still frozen. I freeze Grandma's Chewy Molasses Cookies, then roll them in sugar when they thaw and bake them, they don't seem to get frozen as hard as some others. Chocolate chip freezes just fine, as do Sherry's Santa's Helpers, I just add the filling when I thaw the dough. Peanut butter works well, as does oatmeal. I've never tried freezing shortbread, but sugar cookies freeze nicely in portions or already rolled and cut out, then frozen on sheet pans and packaged. It's nice to have some cookies ready to pop in the oven, so I've pretty much always got some kind or another in the freezer. Plus, I can bake a dozen at a time and not be left with a couple dozen cookies that get stale before we eat that many. Annie

Jello. Only eat it now on that day before one of those procedures we must get every 5 or 10 years. Packaged pizza mix. It was all we had in the mid 60’s small town, and we teenagers thought it was so cool to make and press out dough on an pan and have pizza at a sleep-over. iceberg lettuce. I’m sure I have had it as an adult, but I try to avoid it. Thankfully my mother was a wonderful cook, my dad hated casseroles and lunch meat, so we avoided a lot of really bad stuff. He did eat sardines and saltines once in a while, and he had the kitchen totally to himself when he ate them. Canned LeSeur baby peas. One of the only canned foods my mother did buy other than tomato paste or sauce. I still like them on occasion. Loved them with her homemade mashed potatoes with butter. I would mix them together on my plate.