Frozen Food

A few weeks ago I threw performance parties for my piano students.  This always involves lots of delicious refreshments, and it’s very much anticipated by my own kidlets because after they share their music, there are really no limits on cookie consumption.  Because I had fewer students able to come to the parties this year, there were actually leftover chocolate chip cookies.  I sent a plate up the hill to my cookie-appreciating neighbors, and I decided to put the rest in the freezer.  This would be a common sense solution, of course.  It’s what you do with a surplus of cookies.  But we hardly ever have a surplus of any kind of food after a meal in our household, so the concept of freezing leftover food was completely foreign to my kidlets.

The next day:

Mr. TOF:  Mom, what happened to all of the cookies???  There were so many cookies!

Me:  Oh, I put them in the freezer to save for a few weeks.

Mr. TOF:  The freezer? Why would you put them in the freezer?

Me:  To save them.

Mr. TOF:  That’s a TERRIBLE idea.  WHY would you DO that?

Me:  It seems like a good idea to me.

Mr. TOF:  Because if they are FROZEN, no one can EAT them.

Exactly, my friend.  Exactly.  However, his siblings found the cookies hidden at the back of the freezer and ate them all anyway, even though they were frozen.