From now until the New Year, it seems we’re surrounded by festive foods and sweets. Even the cookies on your supermarket shelves are dressing up a little, changing their shapes and shifting to holiday flavors. How to stay in control if you’re kooky for cookies?
Consumer Reports offers this advice : knowing what 100 calories look like is half the battle.
‘Tis the season for temptation so if you’re tracking your sweet intake, take stock of the cookies you eat.
For starters, three of these Pepperidge Farm Gingerman Cookies plus a foot, have a hundred calories.
Check these out - Nabisco Winter Oreos - decked out in red, but the flavor is the same. About one and a half of these equal 100 calories.
For those of you who think Pfeffernusse are nice, two and a half of these spicy little dome cookies from Bahlsen are 100 calories.
Butter cookies are classic and Sherwood Danish Delights tins are a familiar sight during the holidays. For one hundred calories, you can eat about two and a third of these.
Per Consumer Reports candy cane flavors are a popular staple in the holiday season. Pepperidge Farm Milano Cookies Candy Cane version has layers of chocolate and peppermint and one and a half cookies come to 100 calories.
If you eat these Keebler Fudge Stripes Peppermint cookies, they stack up to 100 calories. A shortcut to decorating cookies? Pillsbury Ready to Bake! Shape Sugar Cookies are all shaped like circles - but cute. A little less than two of these come to 100 calories.
Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Stars Shortbread cookies have a certain sparkle. A little less than three of these make 100 calories. Enjoy them with...a dipper of milk!
We broke it down for you so you can keep track of your favorite cookies.
How many can you eat under 100 calories?
Pepperidge Farm Gingerman Cookies - 3.1
Nabisco Winter Oreos - 1.4
Bahlsen Pfeffernusse - 2.5
Sherwood Danish Delights - 2.4
Pepperidge Farm Milano Cookies Candy - 1.5
Keebler Fudge Stripes - 1.4
Pillsbury Ready to Bake! Shape Sugar Cookies - 1.8
Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Stars Shortbread - 2.9
