From: djk@saki.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Douglas Knights)
Subject: Re: Cookies and Companies and MLM
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 12:49:54 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.015647.364@serval.net.wsu.edu>, hbechtel@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (H. E. Bechtel) writes:
|> In article <1992Oct1.003213.9707@odin.corp.sgi.com> bglazier@buffalo.asd.sgi.com (Bill Glazier) writes:
|> >In article <1992Sep30.171247.22882@serval.net.wsu.edu>, hbechtel@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (H. E. Bechtel) writes:
|> >|> 
|> >|> $1.50 or $0.90 wholesale in a box of 45 cookies that run $67.50 retail or
|> >|> $40.50 wholesale)
|> >
|> >Hold on here.  $1.50 PER COOKIE?  I can go buy a very fancy, large, homemade
|> >cookie in the bakery department of my local high end grocery store for $.70.
|> >This is in Palo Alto, a very expensive town.  I can get high fiber (oatmeal raisin bran).  No cholesterol, no fat - I find this hard to believe, but if
|> >true probably tastes not so good.  Even if true, $1.50 is A RIPOFF!!!!!  
|> >
|> >Oreo's, available in bags of 50+, go for $2.50 - that's $.05 or less a cookie.
|> >Some of the pre-made high end cookies go for 10 for $2.50 - $.25 a cookie.
|> >
|> Due to popular demand on these cookies....
|> 
|> Front side of cookie package:
|> 
|> Nutri-Cookie(TM)
|> Chocolate Chocolate Chip
|> Nutrition Express
|> Food & Weight Management
|> All Natural Ingredients, High Dietary Fiber,
|> No Preservatives, No Cholesterol
|> Real Food in a convenient form.  Use with your healthy weight management
|> program and as a delicious high-energy snack.
|> net weight 2oz (56g)
|> 
|> back side:
|> 
|> Ingredients:  Oat and fiber blend(rolled oats, wheat bran, psyllium seed husk
|> powder, rice bran, high-protein rice fiber, oat bran, guar gum, micro-
|> crystalline cellulose powder, fig fiber), wheat flour(whole durum wheat flour,
|> whole wheat flour, defatted soy flour, soy isolate), whole cane sugar
|> (unrefined, dehydrated whole sugar cane juice), barley malt, Canola oil,
|> pure liquid honey, semi-sweet chocolate drops(chocolate with lecithin,
|> cocoa butter, salt and vanillin), rasin juice, coca powder, dried egg whites,
|> soy lecithin, pure vanilla, baking soda, aluminum-free baking powder, and
|> spices.  SUGGESTION:  It is recommended that you drink two 8-oz glasses of
|> pure water with each Nutri-Cookie.
|> Baked exclusively for Nutrition Express Corporation
|> Houston, Texas 77040  MADE IN USA  ITEM 08024
|> 
|> Nutrition Information
|> Serving Size:  2oz
|> Servings per package: 1
|> Calories:  220
|> Protein:  5g
|> Carbohydrates:  40g
|> Fat:  7g
|> Cholesterol**(0mg/100g):  0mg
|> Sodium:  140mg

So the percentage of calories in these cookies which are fat is around 28% 
which is a little excessive in my overall plan of 20% or less of fat due to
calories in my healthy weight management plan.  Heck a fig newton only has 
one gram of fat in it per cookie.  And in an overall healthy weight management
system where you should be eating no more than 30 grams of fat per day, it
just doesn't seem right to eat a cookie which has 7 grams of fat it in,
unless of course it was a REALLY BIG cookie 8-)

|> 
|> Percentage of U.S. Recommended Daily Allowance (U.S.R.D.A)
|> Protein: 8
|> Vitamin A: *
|> Vitamin C: *
|> Thiamine: 8
|> Riboflavin: 4
|> Niacin: *
|> Calcium: 4
|> Iron: 10
|> 
|> Fiber Content
|> Dietary Fiber: 6g
|> Expeller pressed Canola Oil; Nutricane Sugar, Nutri-Blend flour.
|> 
|> * Contains less than 2% of the U.S. RDA for these nutrients.
|> 
|> ** Information on cholesterol content is provided for individuals who, on
|> advice of physician, are modifying their total dietary intake of cholesterol.
|> 
|> *************************
|> End of Cookie Information
|> *************************
|> 
|> Now, as you can see from the cookie info, it DOES have more in it than the
|> 'common' cookie.
|> 
|> It is true that $1.50 may be higher than what you are used to seeing, and
|> also since I am in MLM you do have the right to understand my bias with this
|> company.
|> 
|> It might be better to think of this cookie as a low-cost meal for those
|> who wish to be on a weight management system.  For increasing fiber intake

A low-cost meal?  Come on....let's be real here.  With the minimal
nutritional content, I hope you are not recommending it as a meal replacement
to people!  Now if you recommend it as a snack, that might be another
story.

|> to the 30 grams of physician recommended AND nutritionists recommended fiber
|> per day, the cookie makes an excellent tasting choice.  
|> 
|> To answer your question on the taste, I would be glad to send you a sample
|> if you email me your address.   
|> Hans Bechtel
|> 
|> -- 
|> 
|> Email hbechtel@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu for info on the Transfer Buyers Organization.
|> Access to the finger command?  Finger hbechtel@frodo.eecs.wsu.edu for info...

Now, if you are interested in a brownie/candy bar tasting snack, which only has
2 grams of fat per 180 calories (2 ounces).........

				Doug