Well getting the cookies off to Peet’s, Gelsons, Lassen’s and Oprah were not as easy as I had hoped it would be.
1st Nate didn’t get the chewy cookies baked, only the crunchy ones. He’d baked a dozen chewy cookies only to burn them (probably was a little too busy for baking). Since Nate is 2-1/2 hours from me I then had to decide what I was going to do for cookies. Nate didn’t have access to his kitchen, I’ll write more of about that later, but anyway I was on my own for now.
I decided that I’d bake in the morning then ship in the afternoon. I called the local commercial kitchen and I was told that I could come in right away and use their oven. I mixed up some cookies and baked one batch of each type.
Unfortunately we had a bunch of other things to do; a dental appointment, then go purchase a Hobart from someone, so I couldn’t get back to the cookies until nearly 3 pm. My hubby and I raced back to the cookies. A friend had packaged all of the cookies so I thought great, we will just slap on labels, throw them in boxes and off to the FedEx. We could at least get the cookies off to Peet’s and Oprah. WRONG!
After printing these new labels that I’d put the nutrition info on we started putting them on the cookies but then I realized that I had not added the ingredient list on the label. I tried to do that quickly but couldn’t get it to add onto the label. By now we were running out of time. I finally printed the ingredient info on labels and we slapped those separately on the back of the cookies.
We did pack up the cookies, brochures and cards, and got to FedEx just in time to ship, 5:05pm. Then we were told “sorry, we don’t deliver to P.O. Boxes”, that was the address for the Oprah Show. That package would need to go via the Post Office.
Well while I was disappointed that I couldn’t send both packages I was glad to get the cookies off to Peet’s. But really the Peet’s deal is a lot more realistic than anything with Oprah.
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