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OUT IN LEFT FIELD.


"From a single retail shop in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern  to worldwide recognition, Mrs. Fields Mrs. Fields Cookies is a chain of bakeries, located mostly in the United States, founded by Debbi Fields (b. 1956, Park City, Utah). Mrs. Fields and her husband started their business in the late 1970s, opening the first of many retail bakeries in Palo Alto, California, selling  is a true American success story," reports each new box of Mrs. Fields Premium Cookies.

An American success story ... doing its part to bolster the American obesity epidemic.

Now you don't have to wait until you're at the airport or passing a Mrs. Fields retail outlet retail outlet npunto de venta

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 to sink your teeth into one of her "indulgent-size" cookies. You can "treat yourself to a little indulgence" any time, night or day. A little here, a little there ... a little on your derriere.

Take the White Chunk Macadamia macadamia (măk'ədā`mēə), name for the nut of the Macadamia ternifolia, an evergreen tree native to Australia, but cultivated in Hawaii. The nuts, also called Queensland nuts, are eaten roasted or raw.  cookies. The first ingredient--white chunk chips--consists mostly of sugar, whole milk powder, and partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil (palm kernel is twice as saturated as lard before it's hydrogenated).

Add them to a batter of white flour, sugar, butter, and margarine and "indulgence" is putting it mildly. Each cookie has close to five grams of saturated fat--as much as four strips of bacon. The other flavors--Oatmeal Raisin with Nuts, Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chip Chocolate chips are small chunks of chocolate. They are often sold in a round, flat-bottomed teardrop shape (similar to a Hershey's Kiss). They are available in numerous sizes, from large to miniature, but are usually around 1 cm in diameter. , and Milk Chocolate Chip--aren't much different.

The best you can say about Mrs. Fields' new cookies is that they're half the size of the cookie monsters in her stores. That's not the case with her new line of ready-to-bake frozen Mrs. Fields Cookie Dough, conveniently pre-portioned to yield those oversized o·ver·size  
n.
1. A size that is larger than usual.

2. An oversize article or object.

adj. o·ver·size also o·ver·sized
Larger in size than usual or necessary.
 in-store morsels.

Eat too many and oversized may end up referring to more than just the cookies.

Mrs. Fields: (877) 712-1615.
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Title Annotation:healthfulness of Mrs. Fields cookies, which are now sold in stores
Publication:Nutrition Action Healthletter
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Mar 1, 2001
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