Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Best way To send my husband his favorite cookies in Kuwait?

My husband is deploying overseas and he absolutly loves the banana chocolate chip cookies that I am famous for making. I need ideas of how to get them to him without them being broken and stale. He really hates stale cookies! Any ideas?Best way To send my husband his favorite cookies in Kuwait?
vacuum seal them, depending on the size of the bags, they need to stay flat, just say 9 per bag, 3 sets of 3, then pad the box ( idea use popped popcorn he can give it to his buddies ) lay a good layer of loose popcorn on the bottom then 1 pack of cookies the a layer of popcorn and so on,





hope this helps, John


just remember the cookies are not stake in the vacuun seal but singal layersBest way To send my husband his favorite cookies in Kuwait?
I send cookies to my husband in Kuwait frequently. I pack them in single layers in ziplock quart sized bags layered with bubblewrap, paper towels, newspaper, etc. inbetween the layers to cushion. I pack them in a shoebox and then put the shoebox in another box with cushioning around it. The most important thing to remember is that if there is room in the box (or tin, or whatever YOU choose to pack the cookies in) for the cookies to shake or move around at all, they will arrive broken. So, make sure that if there is any extra room, it's filled with something cushiony.





Don't bother insuring anything you send through the mail, as insurance only covers it to the NY APO, not to any overseas destination. It usually takes about 7-14 days to get to Kuwait, and if you pack them in something airtight, they will not be stale when they get there.





By the way, popcorn will be stale by the next day after you pop it and won't be fit for birds to eat by the time your cookies get to Kuwait, so please don't use that. Plus, it may ';contaminate'; the cookies with popcorn flavor/smell.
You can pack them in empty Pringles cans and they ship beautiful. I have done this many times. If you ask around for people to save their cans for you they are always happy to do so. I bought a small cookie dropper which made cookies the exact size I needed to fit in the can so they couldn't move around. Just stack them in there like the pringles were. You can cover the cans with contac paper if you want to fancy them up a bit.

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