Brownie security was breached at approximately 1830 and annihilation complete by 0030 on Tuesday evening/early Wednesday morning.
I looked for the telltale signs smeared across my five year old's sleeping face and bow lips when I got home, but was informed by my Significant Other that the assault was clearly unit wide. Instigation of assault was never clearly assigned to a particular perpetrator. I don't blame them. I blame me for unsuccessfully hiding the pan of brownies from the rabble band. Picture above was sent to intended recipient and was met with a number of suggested creatively punitive retaliations.
I sent a lot of smaller packages this week. Letters are the backbone of support. I can swing them budget wise at anytime and I generally have something to rant aboutsay at a moment's notice. Yes. I know. That IS hard to fathom.
I was one heavy in the kid department this week. So I put her to work 
with the rest of the brownie pilferers packing nacho kits, pizza kits, cheese and crackers. When it's hot most of the time not only is dehydration an issue, but my adoptees aren't too hungry. It's too hot to eat and the food available doesn't do much for the appetite.
Sending protein dense food and anything that has a high caloric count is a good thing. Usually more pricey, but I have to say when I need more funds they tend to just show up. I refuse to worry about how I will be providing. As far as the fat content of some of what gets sent this time of year, I have never heard of a Marine or soldier coming back from Iraq or Afghanistan 
heavier than they were when they went so I make a point of getting food out that is palate enticing to them even if it is fat laden. Any kind of change of pace is generally the ticket. Nothing worse than getting pictures of adoptees thoughout a deployment and watching the weight drop. I'm sure it's estrogen related on my part, but I hate it anyway.
I think pictures like that motivated the whole kit type food sends I try to swing from time to time. When I told one adoptee I was sending pizza, they were really surprised. They couldn't figure out how that might happen. Frankly, I didn't either at the time I started making these kits, but yes, you can send pizza to the Sandbox. Bertolli 
makes great pouch sauce, pepperoni is shelf stable, as are the jars of grated parmesan cheese and the cans of olives or Portobello mushrooms. Finish it off with vaccum sealed ready to eat pizza crust and there you go. Pizza.
Nachos are a fun thing as well. I prefer local Texas tortilla chips and cans of Rotel. You vacuum seal the box of cheese though to prevent seepage. It's hot. Things might get runny, but a seal will keep it usable. Most of the time they just put the cheese in a fridge if they have one. Though I have had a picture or 
two of a Marine digging right into the box of cheese with a knife and chip and then smothering it with some K-bar opened Rotel right on the spot. It's not surprising. My own rabble here isn't much more dainty when it comes to food consumption, though I don't let them use a Kbar. lol.
I also had my rabble laminate whatever smart ass piece of art I could find for box or envelope alike this week.
Mail adornment started a long while back and noticed I caught hell when mail went out that didn't have a graphic on it so now it's kind of a tradtion for a lot of the adoptees. As with anything else though I do sometimes forgo that step if I'm slammed for time and instead my kiddos will go to town on the packages with a marker.
Here's pictures of half my rabble helping me get all of the packages to the post office. They were pretty darn proud of themselves it sure seems like.
These clerks are used to me and my horde descending down from the steppe several times a 
week. I can write custom forms in my sleep at this point. Even the five year old will ask me like he is asking down below very autoritatively, "Mooooooooooooooooom, do you gots the custuhm fohms? You do wiiiiiiight?" It gets him a lot of laughs with the clerks.
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Here's how I make field tacos/ burritos:
Rule #1, don't throw away any left over MRE crackers, cheese etc.
Stuff needed:
Canned chicken or beef
Taco Bell Taco season stuff pack
Left over MRE cheese, or canned cheese
Left over MRE crackers, or if somebody can mail you tortillas that will last a few weeks
Canned olives, peppers etc
Mix Taco Bell pack into meat, stir and pour on whatever the heck you got, squirt on cheese, and olives, peppers and whatever else you can come up with.
Wash down with cold near-beer (due to general order #1- the no fun order)
Eat fast before the other grunts find out what you're doing. I would have enough for my "team" but an entire platoon would show up when ready to eat.
Oh my. Were those brownies intended for America's 1st Sgt.? I hope not ... for the sake of the "rabble," especially.
What you do for those guys overseas is absolutely amazing.
A great lady from TN has taught many warriors how to use a pizza stone over their open fire for a fantastic pizza.
My favorite is the thanks I received for chips and jars of salsa. "Thank you so much for the tortilla chips. They arrived in very good shape. We don't have many ways to use the tomato sauce. Any suggestions?" That's when I learned to include instructions ---
1. Open chips and jar of tomato salsa
2. Use chip to dip generous amount of salsa
3. Insert salsa covered chip into open mouth
4. Chew well, & swallow
5. Repeat.
I took no chances, I included step by step pictures for Chili Pie NIGHT.
Gotta luv it !
Yep... did the jar cake too.
It is fun being creative with care packages, ain't it?
You do good work Hope. I'll send some $$ your way again.
hee. CI roller---that's a really good idea and now I know what to do with all those taco bell packets! hahaha...
Yep Southeren--Michael sustained massive casualties on that last pan of brownies...
Haole--that is a GREAT idea! hmmmm pizza stones.lol...and yes...instructions tend to be really really important! haha...although I'll post about flagrant disregard for instructions with a big bday mailout for a young PFC...poor guy.
Hey T, just got the money from you. Thats another crock pot down...muah!!!
I just had to share - and say thanks! I flagrantly stole your wonderful idea about pictures to decorate boxes and hit up FLickr.com's Creative Commons pool for snaps. A quick printer and some tape made my first decorated box a success.
The post office was slow and that was good since my guy had to stop mid custom form stamping to move the box all about looking at pictures. He got a great laugh so success before it even officially entered the mail stream.
Thanks!
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