Cookies In A Bag by Danette

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You're listening to A Tiny Homestead, the podcast comprised entirely of conversations with homesteaders, cottage food producers, and crafters. I'm your host, Mary Lewis.

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Today I'm talking with Danette,  well Danette,  at Cookies in a Bag by Danette  in Kentucky. Good morning, Danette. How are you?  I am fantastic. Thank you so much for having me. You're welcome. And it is Danette. It's not Donette, right?  My mother actually  born and raised Danette, because I was going to be Dan if I was a guy, but I'm not. So I was Danette. But I actually am kind of.

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I a bit when I was about 18. I went off to college and I changed it from Danette to Dinette. So just the same name but just slightly pronounced different. yeah, so, Dinette. Cookies in a bag by Dinette. I just hate it when I pronounce people's names wrong because I have very Oh, you're so fun. I have very easy names. I have Mary, I have Evelyn for my middle name, and I have Lynn for a nickname. And those are all really easy.

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That is. Okay. So what's the weather like in Kentucky this morning? Fantastic. Absolutely beautiful. It poured and rained all evening yesterday. Um, but it's fine. It was in the evening and that means I don't have to water plants today. Um, but I love the rain in the evening and at night because it just makes everything green and lush and beautiful. And we've had a great week here in Paducah, Kentucky. So no complaints from me. Good. Cause I know it's been really hot.

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everywhere and I'm in Minnesota. It is a lovely day outside. is sunny. It is cool. There's not even a breeze. don't think. Great. That's awesome. I'm happy. for us. gardening. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So I really wanted to talk to you because you do cookies in a bag. It is a really simple concept. It really is. But I had never thought of putting it in a bag.

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I had heard about the jars, but I hadn't thought about a bag. So tell me about yourself and what you do. Well, if you look at my bags, they're actually shaped like mason jars. So this really is sort of what you said. This is a very simple concept, but hopefully done well. And it has just surpassed my wildest expectations. went into business. Well, actually about 2004, I was like a big

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PTO president at my children's elementary school and we had this fundraiser called shop till you drop. It was brand new and you know the first year for anything is the hardest.  And so we were trying to get vendors to come into our gymnasium  and pay $50 for a table.  And  you know, like we had  the local Pampered chef lady and then we actually had businesses. We'd reach out to like a local  gardening center and have her bring her stuff in. And so, you know, I was.

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just using my very best persuasive skills and  it was going pretty good but we had a few empty spots and several of my friends said, oh my gosh, Jeanette, why don't you set up a table? You're a fantastic baker. And this was in between Christmas  and Thanksgiving. So like a week after Thanksgiving. So three weeks until Christmas. And they're like, why don't you sell your cookies and cakes? And I was like, well,  I appreciate the fact that you think I'm good enough to do that, number one, but nobody wants.

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cookies three weeks before Christmas, you know?  They want them at Christmas.  And so I was like, gosh, how can I give people what they want,  but when they want it? And I'd always seen those little glass jars, you know, like the, I want to say they used to sell them in our farmers market.  There was this Amish lady there who always sold baked goods.

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And so I was like, oh, that's cute. I could kind of do something like that, but I really don't want to deal with glass jars or anything. That seems like a pain and things could break. And I was like, how can I do this in a more simpler manner? And so I came up with these little cute clear plastic. Actually, my colors are all red and white with polka dot and stripe. And so I came up with these cute little plastic bags, not the ones I have now, but they were just like a cellophane bag.

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with a flat bottom and I filled them with my contents.  Like these are my homemade recipes. Like literally I created or came up with or my mother handed down to me every single recipe that I sell.  And so I just had four or five recipes and then I would put the chips on top. So I mixed everything in. It wasn't like the layers like the, that used to be in the glass jars. I mixed everything together and then I put.

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the chips or the toppings or whatever on top. So it would kind of look cute. And then I had this adorable little red bow and I set up, I don't know, I made a hundred or something and I was like, oh my gosh, how's this going to go? My kids were all in elementary school. They kind of helped me at the sale and it went great. They sold everything out and I was like, oh my gosh. I think at the time they were like $5. This is like 2004.

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people after it was over with I was like, okay, well that was fun. And then people started calling and they're like, I loved those. Can we get a Miss Teacher gifts? know, and anyway, so it's sort of, we sold  several hundred that season and I was just kind of like, wow.  And so we  came back and we did it again the next year and I did that for about five or six years while my kids were at Clark Elementary.

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And honestly, was a real business. I had a business license, but it was very part-time. It was just seasonal and it paid for Christmas. And, you know, cause I was stay-at-home mom at the time and my kids, you know, it was just kind of fun little thing to do. But it sort of started picking up and it was kind of taking away from a little bit the joy of the holiday. Like I was making cookies and setting up mixes late at night, quite a bit after a couple of years. And so when my kids,

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I finished elementary school, I went back to work and I was like, okay,  cookies are done.  We put it to bed and I went back. a teacher, I still am actually,  full-time educator. I just kind of put it to bed and I was like, well, that was fun. That was a little entrepreneurship thing I had for a while  and I went on with my career and things went great. All of a sudden, about three years ago, a lady downtown,  I'm sorry if this story is really long.

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So there's a lady downtown in Paducah, Kentucky. name's Susie Koiner, sort of a mentor of mine.  She owns a fantastic, unique,  everything you didn't know you need. It's called Barbecue and More. It's a spin-off of the barbecue festival that she started here in Paducah, Kentucky that's kind of turned into this big, enormous event.  But anyway, she has a store called Barbecue and More on Third and Broadway downtown. And she was like, Dinette, you need to bring your cookies back. Now, mind you, I'm now...

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you know, at the time, 52 years old, very well established in my career, trying to become an administrator and my kids are gone. You know, I've sort of found the freedom and the fun of an empty nest and I'm like, what? Oh, you're cute. Like, thanks, but you know, I'm good. Like I'm very busy and fulfilled with my career. And she just, every time I would be in her store for like a year, she's like, Danette, you need to bring your cookies back. Nobody had cookie mixes like you did. She said, I've been looking for them.

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For different things that would be equitable and she said it just doesn't exist and I was like, huh?  Ah,  know,  okay. Well, thanks. I just took it as a compliment and a couple months later another friend of mine who had kind of been on the Who had been one of the vendors of very long time ago in 2004 her name is Christie Brinkley She owns the silver chicks also real close to me lives in my neighborhood  She is in Paducah and she was like you need to sell those cookies again. They were so

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And I was like, that's so weird.  But I was like,  you guys, you're sweet. And I just kind of blew it off. And so then the third, the straw that broke the camel's back,  who a girl named Brooke Grace Riley, she's out of Mayfield. She owns an online boutique, but she's also a business coach.  And I'd been following her just a tiny bit online. And she sent this email that I felt like she was sending just to me. You know, she said,

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God  has given you  a gift  and you are meant  to pursue the gifts that he has given you. He wouldn't give you something that is not purposeful and of value. It's like sort of stop running away from it, stop fighting it, but like go for it. know, like you only live one  fabulous, wonderful life.  And I was like,  oh my gosh. I was like, why is this happening to me?  I'm living this.

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Fabulous fun life and my husband and I are you know We had three great kids but they were grown and you know now we could Travel and do whatever the heck we wanted to and I was very invested in my career and all this just kept you know popping his head up and I was like What is God trying to talk to me about? Why would he want me to make cookies in a bag again? But anyway, so I clicked on her link and I was like, oh should I join her class and I didn't I was like

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I'm just gonna, she said,  I only accept people every six months. And I just was like, oh, I'm just not ready. And so I clicked the six months and it's ridiculous how long it took me. But anyway,  the next six months came, the email came and I was like, I'd been thinking about it and people had still been talking to me about it. And so when she popped up again, I'm accepting people.  I was like, oh,  okay, I don't understand this. I really don't understand this. What is the...

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purpose. Like, God placing this on my heart? Is he placing people in my life to keep telling me about this? I don't understand, but I'm just going to move forward in faith and we're going to do this.  It's just cookies.  So  it's just cookies. What could possibly go wrong?  And so I started,  I'm a different person, you know, like I'm

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I'm grown, like it's 20 years ago since I had this little cookie thing and I was like, I'm just a more mature person.  I'm gonna go on social media. I really need to not rebrand, but sort of. Like it was much more professional and serious and it was my product was going to go into a store, not just me selling it out of my kitchen.  And so, and I had to get  a commercial kitchen.  mean, I have  the state came in and actually,

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I'm considered a manufacturer, so I had to have people come from  the State Department and inspect my kitchen and all this stuff. This took three months of paperwork. I designed my product. I found those cute little adorable bags that I just love, and they're a resealable Ziploc bag, which I'll talk about in just a second.  I  love those bags. They're so cute. I love them.  And so  I  came back with my traditional, my triple chocolate chip cookie that I'd always have.

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I had my oatmeal cookie, this time we turned it into an oatmeal caramel crunch. And then I had developed a new recipe, my double chocolate espresso, which I think is the hidden gem in my business. It's the most fantastic cookie. I absolutely love it. It's my son's favorite. And I started with those three and I had to buy a box of, this was in April, two years ago. So I'm a little over two years old and I had to buy a box of those bags and there were 1200 of them in that bag.

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And at the time I was like,  oh,  sweet, Jesus, please be with me on this venture. was like,  the lady who, Susie wanted three dozen in her store, which was very gracious of her.  And I was like, wow, it's gonna take me two or three years to sell this box  of bags and use them all up. I have 1200 of them.  And so we put them in the store. I jumped on social media.  I listened to my business coach. I post four times a day.  use

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Facebook, Instagram, I had a little bit of TikTok, but I really don't mess with TikTok much. Anyway,  and I just started posting about my three little cookie mixes and talking to people and showing them  all you have the entire batch of cookies is in the bag. I use great ingredients. I use Ghirardelli chocolate and just quality, know, Dutch cocoa, just good stuff the way I would want to eat. Like these are the cookies I feed my family. And all you have to do is add a stick of butter and an egg.

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That's it. You dump it into your mixer. literally takes two minutes and you have cookie dough. And then you can do whatever you want with it. Make little ones, big ones, pan of cookies, whatever. And so it's the simplicity of the product, but they actually are quite delicious. And so we put them in her store. I jumped on social media and I will tell you within two months that box of 1200 were gone. That is amazing.

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Mind-blowing and I was like no way and people started coming out like people who used to buy it in 2004 they were like, oh my gosh, tonight you're doing cookies again I loved them and I was like no way I couldn't believe people remembered first of all, I was so it was so humbling but I was just honored I was like, wow, I never thought it would be and I was like, that's cool. That's great So, you know, we'll have a little paducah cookie business

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And I would go down to hand out samples and people just kept buying them. And then all of sudden other businesses in town were like, we love those. Can we carry them? I was like, okay, I guess so. Take my, give me your money, please. Yes. And so then towns around and then all of sudden, like a lady out of Alabama wanted them and a lady from Vermont wanted them. And I was like, where did you see my stuff? And they're like, Facebook. was like, wow. And it's free. Facebook is free.

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You know, like people complain about sometimes,  oh, the algorithm and, you know, doesn't show me what I want and all that stuff. But for me, it has been the greatest success.  I have been very consistent. I try to put information out there that people want to see and hear.  It's a little difficult. You have to be brave to get on there and do lives. But you know what? Like, so what? Like, just do it. People.

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You know, we just love authentic people and whatever, you know, and people have been so gracious and kind to me. And I have gone from zero followers to 75,000. Wow. In the last just a little over two years, I've had a few reels like take off and just do really well and you you pick things up, but oh my goodness, like I cannot, it's just astonishing really. And I feel so blessed and my product is in

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probably 30 stores, primarily in Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois,  my area-ish.  But it is in, like I shipped some off yesterday to Vermont,  a home garden center in Vermont  that had heard about them from Montgomery Gardens right here in Paducah. They're just friends and they talk and I'm just like,  this is wild.  And from that  first year, I started in March or April. By the time we finished Christmas, I had sold 7,000.

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of those little cookie mixes.  And the reason why you and I love that little bag, I love how it looks, but also the mix is in there. You just add a stick of butter and an egg, dump it into your mixer,  and then  I actually make my dough into dough balls and I put them right back inside of the bag. The bag is a resealable Ziploc bag and I throw it in the fridge  and I love to use chilled cookie dough because

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So many wonderful things happen to chilled cookie dough. It gives your butter a chance to set back up. It also soaks up your sugars and your flour.  that sort of makes for just a very mellow,  even textured cookie.  And it just kind of develops the caramelization flavors. And it's just, love a good chilled cookie. I just let it sit there in the refrigerator for a few days before I bake them.  And so that bag is actually useful.  It's cute and it's useful.

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Yeah, baby. That's my story.  And  I love that you just talked nonstop for about, oh, I would say 12 minutes  because it shows how passionate and excited you are. And  here's what I want to tell people about your product. I haven't tried it.  I've never met you before,  but basically what your product is, like the box cake mixes at the store.

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You know, you buy a box of cake mix, you throw an egg and some veggie oil or whatever in it, and you make a cake. The difference is that you don't have a whole bunch of preservatives and flavors and stuff that's not good for you. And I love that because there's so much crap in manufactured It's a clean product, very plant-based, honestly. I use the best ingredients that I can find.

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But the chocolate makes a difference as well. And then I always whisper to people,  use salted butter. I'm a huge advocate.  I know like all these fancy bakers will, you know, use unsalted butter because you can control your salt.  But gosh, I love salt in my sweet.  I like flake sea salt on top of stuff too. I love it. So I use salted butter in all of my cookies. I tell people that when I'm giving them samples.

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you're tasting what you're tasting is made with salted butter. You can do whatever you want. But you know, most people have salted butter in their house  and this, my product is delicious. It is easy. It is the cleanest. think no, you know, the chocolate chips are not old. There are no oils in this. There's no preservatives in it,  but  you're getting  sort of like, you're just getting a clean product, but it's just, it's simple. And so people already have salted butter. So that sort of

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blends in with the simplicity of the entire thing. You have to go buy anything special.  And the other thing that I love about this  is you don't have to deal with a glass jar  when you want to make, if somebody has grandkids and they want to make cookies with your ingredients,  you don't have to worry about a glass jar on the counter. Yes,  you're exactly right.  And nobody wants to deal with that later. So yeah. And this is the perfect

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like stocking stuff or gift at Christmas time  because you know that you're going to have your grandkids on spring break or your kids even. And you get this at Christmas time. It's good for a long time until you open it. is. have a shelf life of a year. They have a shelf life of a year. All of them. I'm going to send you some. You're going to send me your address and you can try this.  I would, I would be happy to try that stuff and actually do a podcast about it with you again. All right.

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But point being, was going somewhere with this. Oh,  not all schools have spring break in the same month. I know when I was growing up, we had February break and we had April break. And so if you give these to people at Christmas time as a stocking stuffer, or you give them like eight of them in a box  and wrap it up as a present, you've got a variety of things that you can do with the kids when they're on break and you're not...

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having to spend the time measuring all the ingredients out and making a huge mess. And that is a bonus. That's true.  And I have, I do have a website. It's just cookiesinabag.com.  And people, ship all over the United States actually.  So you can order them and I will ship them straight to your door and you can  give them a try as well.

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I am typing in your website right now because I want to see it. www.cookiesinthebag.com and now we started out with three and then we've added several cookie mixes since then because my original store, Susie was like, we got to keep spicing it up and we added one at Christmas. So my originals are triple chocolate chip, which just means it has three different kinds of chocolate in it. My oatmeal caramel crunch, which I love. It's my best raw cookie dough. I don't know if people are...

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reject eating raw cookie dough but I love it.  And then my third one is double chocolate espresso and then since then,  we've added a peppermint crunch. It's a chocolate cookie with Andy's peppermint crunch in it that was for Christmas.  After that, the next spring, we added a sugar sprinkle lemonade. It's like a  – it's a it's a lemon sugar cookie with sprinkles in it. So cute. That's the one I want. I love lemon cookie.

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And then recently we added strawberries and cream and it has real freeze dried strawberries in it with white chocolate chunks. Fantastic. Just a whole different vibe. And then I do have one brownie mix. It is called a chocolate fudge brownie. It's made with sweet Ghirardelli cocoa. It's excellent. You melt your stick of butter with an egg and I, there you go. So I have six cookies and one brownie. And I'm working on working on two right now.

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to maybe roll out at the holidays.  you know, just always a little something, but it's cookie fun. Yeah,  absolutely. And  what I love about this  so much, Danette, is that this is  so  simple.  I I know it takes time. I'm not saying that you're making tons of money doing nothing because you are absolutely not doing nothing,  but it's a simple concept. actually helps people.

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It gets kids in the kitchen with their parents and grandparents to learn how to cook.  I mean, it is very simple cooking, but it is definitely teaching them about the chemistry of cooking.  is because they get to unwrap the stick of butter, they get to crack the egg, and they get to dump the ingredients. And that's really all we really want to do, isn't it? Yeah. Like you want to just crack the egg with butter, and then you don't have to measure out the baking soda and the baking powder and...

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You know, it's all there done for you and that they get that's the best part about it The stories that make me smile  are when people come in and they say I gave this as a gift and or I received it as a gift and I absolutely loved these  but though the ones I really love are the ones where the kids bake with mom or grandma and families are spending time together in the kitchen  creating good memories  Like I had when I was growing up and like I got to experience with my own kids. So that's

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That's what I love, love, love about it. Yeah, absolutely. I'm sitting here being like, why did I not think of this? And I could still do the same thing. We sell stuff at the farmers market. I don't think I could ship it because I don't think we can ship anything from Minnesota until 2027. I think they finally changed it.

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But I could do this and I wouldn't be any competition for you. Our local people would be thrilled. They'd love it. So it's something to consider amongst my podcast and my cleaning the kitchen and cooking dinner for the family and keeping clean clothes happening.  You know, I have things I got to do, but it's certainly something that I would consider doing. But point being is that this is an excellent gift for anything. I mean, you could do this for  a young

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couple who are getting married.  could  gift  it as birthday present, anniversary present, don't know, Easter, anything. Anything that requires a small, fairly inexpensive gift. This is perfect.  absolutely. And Susie Coyner, Barbecue and More, downtown, she does individualized

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Baskets that she puts together for people you come in you're like, I have a friend who loves strawberries and then you get a little Strawberry tea towel to go with it and you she wraps everything up and  she does exactly what you were talking about but yeah sky's the limit like if you love cookies and  You know, I these are all my recipes. They're my original recipes. I'm going through the process of getting my my company's being trademarked  Yeah, you know just doing all the things here but sure this is not

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I did not invent cookie mixes, the concept of a cookie mix. I just made them my way with my recipes  and it has just been the most phenomenal blessing and people have been so gracious and it has just been  just a  really fun little experience with entrepreneurship and being a little local business and women supporting other women.  Just met a lot of really great people through this.

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And it's been a lot of fun. I'm just  following what I feel like I've been called to do. So.  Well,  huge congratulations on this, because  it sounds like you were mildly reluctant to take the step, but it's a good thing you did.  The other thing that I want to say is that cooking is not just a women thing. Men cook too. Boys cook too.  And I say grandmas and moms.

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but it could be grandpas and dads too. Yeah. So my son can make his own cookies, you know? Yeah, absolutely. With this. Yeah. And honestly, can do all the things men can do if they want to. I think the only thing that men can't do that women can do is actually give birth to babies. Yes. This world has become so much more

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big and open to everybody being able to try everything and it's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

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I agree and I appreciate you doing what you're doing and bringing light to some of us little business people out there. So I'm so happy to talk to you and meet you.  I am really happy to meet you and talk to you too. And thank you for saying that because  I started the podcast partly because I needed a project.  My youngest was going to be moving out youngest of four and I was like, I can't go through empty nest syndrome without a project. I can't.

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But I also really wanted to give people like you and homesteaders and crafters a floor, a stage to be able to tell about what they do and why they do it. And it has been the joy of my life for over 300 episodes to be able to talk to people about what they do. Nice.  I love it. Yes.  Be brave. Love it. Be brave. You get one wonderful, beautiful life. Just go for it.

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Go for the friendships. Go for the experience. Take the trip. Eat the cookie, I say. You  love the outfit, do it.  If you wanna go try something, go on a trip. Do bungee jumping. Be brave. Whatever it is you feel called to do, you really have one shot to do it.  when my mother passed away several years ago  of cancer, and so we had her.

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four intentional months with her when she was passing. And I remember she was really happy with some of her life and then she had many regrets. And I didn't do this and I didn't do this and I took her on a couple trips when she was sick and she had a little scooter and everything, but we did it. And I just thought that was seven years ago. And I was like, I don't wanna be that person when I have lived a full

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blessed life and hopefully helped a lot of people and  just, you know,  enjoyed myself and had purpose and done what, you know, God has called me to do. And I thought,  I don't want to, I don't want to, when I'm passing, like, I don't want to have that conversation that my mother had, like, I wish, I wish I had.  I was like, you know what, you just, you do have to be brave. And like on social media,  I mean, I am, my face is on there. I'm talking to people, I'm talking to.

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Thousands and thousands of people and I don't know them. I don't know how they'll react and you know what  but I'm not doing anything wrong I'm trying to be kind  and share  and you just kind of had to go for it and people are generally so kind and gracious  and You know, that's just what you just got it. Do it Be brave if you're listening to this and you're on the fence do it.  Yeah, do it  Absolutely. Try it. It doesn't work. It doesn't work. But it does work. It might work big

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With the whole eat the cookie thing, I'm going to make a suggestion. Eat the cookie, yes. Do not eat 100 cookies at once because what happens is you get sick and you will never want to eat that cookie again. Well, and you might get FAT, which is not really fun. I'm far more concerned about being sick on a food that I liked because I've done it twice and it took me years to try those foods again.

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Don't OB on your favorite thing because you won't want it again for a long time. I'm going to take a second because we're talking about cookies. My husband brought me home some lemon cookies from the farmer's market two weekends ago. And I keep meaning to mention this on the podcast and I keep forgetting, so I'm going do it now. Our local farmer's market is fantastic. The lady that he got the cookies from, her business is called Spare Time Baker, think.

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He brought me home these little tiny lemon cookies. There were six of them. And he knows that I love lemon, everything lemon. And I was like, okay, they better be good. Because if it's not good lemon, I'm going be very sad. And he just laughed because I say this about everything that has lemon in it. Because sometimes it's good lemon and sometimes it's chemical lemon. that's gross. Right. Yes, yes. And so I bit into one of them and he watched me and I smiled around the bite. And he's like, oh.

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I take it she's good at lemon cookies. said, yeah, I bet she's good at all cookies. So for the record, everybody who's local to me who listens to the podcast, if you have the chance to get cookies  from Spare Time Baker at the Lowest Sore Farmer's Market,  do it. It'll be worth it.  Nice.  I actually found,  took a long time developing my lemon recipe, but it's actually dried ground lemon in mine  that has the lemon flavor because I agree there's

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This  fake lemon is not good. It always smells like it's going to be good, but you taste it you're like, this is not real. Yeah. It's gross. No. Yep. You're right.  So I just wanted to give her a shout out because I was so excited to have lemon cookies because I don't eat cookies very often, partly because  I don't make them very often because they'll be gone. My husband and my son will eat them  and I don't buy cookies because cookies at the store.

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are never very good and they're always way more expensive than they should be. are. Really, it's the quality of the ingredients though that concern me the most. Yeah, yeah. yeah, I understand. And I have one more question before I  let you go. How many cookies, like average size cookies, does one of your bags make? Great question. Get that all the time. Each bag makes a batch of cookies, but I say about 14.

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large bakery style cookies that you would go to a bakery and get, you know, like five, four to five inches in diameter, four inches, so about 14, 15 of those.  Now you can make little teaspoon cookies and I can get like 70 little party cookies out of one batch.  If you make those  great big gourmet, thick, huge seven ounce, you know, six ounce cookies, you're only gonna get like six out of a bag.  So it just depends on what you have going on.

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Okay. The reason I ask is because I know how much your bags of cookie ingredients costs. you  willing to share that? Because I want to say something about it.  While they sell on my website for 10.95. I  think so. Yeah. 10.99, something like that. Yes. The reason I want to make the point here is that that is a really  reasonable price for a batch of cookies. Like really reasonable. Because you're paying less than  a dollar a cookie.

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Yes. if you go to a bakery, yeah, you're not gonna, you're gonna pay a more than that,  You absolutely are. And you don't know what they put in it. With this, I'm pretty sure you have a label that says exactly what the ingredients in that bag are. That is true. So it's all good. Everything here is good, Dinette. I love it. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. All right. So tell me where everybody can find you.

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Well, I am on Facebook and Instagram and just type in cookies in a bag by Danette. That's me. So just the whole thing. No spaces, no dashes, cookies in a bag by Danette. You can come follow along and I share recipes.  I love to share old recipes that are about cookies that I don't make,  but I share techniques, fun things you can do with my cookie mixes. Like you can turn them into,  you know.

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bar cookies or you can turn them in. you sometimes I'll make a peach cobbler and I'll take my oatmeal caramel crunch cookie dough and put it on top of the peach cobbler  or of the peaches and turn it into a cobbler. Like I just  give you fun tips about what you can do with my mixes or how to make cookies, even just how to use how to chill cookies or just, you know, what the best pans are like just anything to do with cookies. I just have all kinds of fun  information if you are interested in baking.

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It's all there on Instagram and Facebook. And then my website is cookies in a bag dot com.  And you can order any of my mixes and we will ship them directly to you. I just got to order this morning from a company in Louisville, Illinois, called Glamour Farms.  And she runs a boutique, an online boutique. And she picked up my mixes about a year ago and

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They're doing fantastic with her. So when people are buying clothes, they're buying cookie mixes, too  So we're shipping out a couple hundred to her pretty soon So there you go cookies in a bag by Danette try it Yeah, this was such a joy You  are so bubbly and and the love that you have for what you're doing is just coming through so strongly I have  I have loved this conversation

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I'm a teacher so you know we always have to kind of keep it keep it  keep it pumping for the sweet little children so they're always interested.  Oh yeah but if you didn't love it it wouldn't be ringing like it is so I'm so happy for you. Well thank you.  As always people can find me at a tinyhomesteadpodcast.com.  Donette thank you again for your time. Thank you. Thank you for listening I appreciate it  and everybody have a great day.

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Yes, happy baking. All right, bye. Bye.