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Gas for car on way to store: $4.50, Box of cookie mix: $11.99, the look on my face when I saw them cooking in the oven: Priceless.

Let me explain. You see, if I have one purpose on this Earth, it just might be to tell people not to buy this box of cookie mix.
For years, I’ve watched Ina Garten on her show “Barefoot Contessa” and have thought to myself, “Geez, I bet that fat lady makes a mean cookie!” So when I saw her very own brand of chocolate chunks sitting on my grocery shelf, I knew I had to try them.

Let me preface this by saying, I love chocolate chip cookies! I know, odd right? But I really mean it. I am a chocolate chip cookie addict. It’s my weakness. I know a good one, and I’ve been with the best. Speaking of, Mrs. Fields, call me!

These cookies however, are quite simply some of the worst I have ever baked up at home or consumed in general. Let’s start off by stating that they cost over 11 bucks. I had figured it was because there were a few packets in the box, or that they made a large amount of cookies, but that wasn’t the case. Each box yields only 14 cookies. Yet, the serving size on the back says about 35 servings per container, so I guess when you are barefoot you consider less than half of one whole cookie a serving size.

As soon as they started baking up in the oven I knew something with downright amiss with these cookies. All of the chocolate stayed lumped up in the center, while the “flesh” of the cookie seemed to melt down and flatten along the sides, sort of like Bea Arthur’s face – only slightly chewier looking.

One I removed them from the oven my boyfriend and I decided to consume one. He told me they tasted “salty”. I told him they were some of the worst cookies I’ve had in my life. We contemplated plating the cookies up and having him pawn them off at work, but we didn’t want to subject his co-workers to these tasteless piles of grease.

Bottom line, do not buy these things – the texture, the taste, and the price really make for one of the worst Food Network buys I have come across. On a side note, I do love Bobby Flay’s cast iron grill pan.