Peanut Butter Smarter Cookie, Welcome To The Family

We are pleased to introduce our new pride and joy, the Smarter Cookie Peanut Butter. Making a delicious and healthy peanut butter cookie that met our standards for flavor and healthy nutrition took some experimenting, but we've got a winner.

Sticking with the ethos of the Smarter Cookie Original, Smarter Cookie Peanut Butter will provide our fans a new wonderful way to get the most out of their snacks and desserts. We made some tough choices along the way. Do we use Organic Peanut Butter or stick with conventional? The cost is significantly higher for most of the organic ingredients we use, but we believe in certain cases, if we want to be the best choice we can be, it's just going to cost more. One quick story explains why we used organic peanut butter. We have heard that in organic farming, when a farmer wants to clean up a previously conventional field and prepare it to become certified organic, clean up crops have to be planted to leach the residual pesticides from the soil. Peanuts are used for this purpose because they are apparently very suitable for absorbing chemicals that are around them in the soil.

Recently we bought some peanuts. We opened the package used what we needed and then put the remains inside double ziplock bags. In our area of California, we have been dealing with an infestation of small household moths. It is amazing what they can get into, so we double bag nuts, fruit and flours to keep them out. We leave a cotton swab with peppermint essential oil on it in the drawers were we store endangered food items to discourage the moths from getting into our food. So, long story short, the peanuts are double ziplock bagged in a drawer of a Hosier Cabinet with a cotton swab that has peppermint essential oil on it. The next time we went to use the peanuts, fortunately there were no moths near them, but they tasted very powerfully of peppermint. The peanuts had soaked up the peppermint essential oil that wafted through the bags' seals like a sponge. So, we think that the same thing would be true for pesticides used in conventional farming. We don't want to eat that, and we sure don't want our customers to eat it either. That's why we use organic ingredients for things like peanut butter, eggs, butter and brown in our products. No question, they're much more expensive, but if we believe in healthy nutritional choices, we have to do what's right and put the right stuff in our cookies.