Homemade With Love

Last night our ward had a combined YM/YW activity at the park.  It was a bunch of water games and then ending like every good mutual activity... with treats.  Our ward is huge and there were a whole lot of kids there.  As the activity was nearing the end, the other leaders and I noticed that not everyone that should have brought the treats did.  All that we had were some plain Rice Krispie Treats and a package of Keebler cookies.  There was no way there were enough for all those kids.  In an attempt to fix this problem, we noticed that the Rice Krispie Treats were kind of large, so we decided to use our hands to break each one in half (since we had no knife to cut them).  They didn’t look nearly as pretty when we finished, but there were twice as many.  Problem solved.

Now I, in my stupidity, thought the kids would snub these torn treats and those who were lucky enough to be first would take the “perfect” fudge dipped Keebler cookies, and the kids at the end of the line would be forced to eat the Rice Krispie Treats we had mutilated.  To my surprise, kid after kid took the Rice Krispie Treats and it was those at the end that were left with the packaged cookies.

Moral of the story:  Homemade is ALWAYS better, no matter what!

So, I spent the afternoon making a whole bunch of Homemade Red Velvet Oreos  (which I don't particularly care for, but others seem to love) for the neighborhood BBQ tonight.