OT-Shipping Cookies to Military

[JohnsonsRUs]

Hopefully someone can help. We have a friend who is in Iraq and he requested some homemade cookies, so I made him some and now the question is how do I get them to him without them turning to crumbs? I am getting ready to send a care package with other stuff, but I'm not sure if I should send them in that or separately and what is the best way to pack them? I'm thinking I should have made bars instead of actual cookies, I guess that's what I'll do next time.

Thanks for any help.

 

[princessdisneybelle]

my Dad is in Iraq now and we sent him some homemade goodies in glad containers and cookie tins. They arrived just fine

 

[bumbershoot]

My mom used to send cookies in the following way.

Double plastic wrap around each and every cookie. Then foil each one. Then put them into a big tin, bubble wrap or packing peanuts around that in a box. Got from Miami to Tacoma just fine!

 

[msmayor]

The trick is to make sure that the cookies cannot move at all during transit.

I use large gladware containers. I separate each layer with wax paper, and pack the cookies tight enough so that they cannot 'shake' in the container...using wax paper as an extra packing material.

Then, each container is double-wrapped in bubble-wrap and then packed in a mailing box, again using sufficient packing material to make sure the containers cannot move during shipment.

 

[MommaSnowwhite]

My Mom used to use popcorn. That way my Dsis could eat that too!

 

[MickeyMomOfThree]

My Mom used to use popcorn. That way my Dsis could eat that too!

That's waht I used to do for my DH many years ago when he was my DBF and then DF. It worked well...

 

[powellrj]

The trick is to make sure that the cookies cannot move at all during transit.

I use large gladware containers. I separate each layer with wax paper, and pack the cookies tight enough so that they cannot 'shake' in the container...using wax paper as an extra packing material.

Then, each container is double-wrapped in bubble-wrap and then packed in a mailing box, again using sufficient packing material to make sure the containers cannot move during shipment.

I agree. I use to use magazines and newspapers to line the boxes with and then open the bags of socks and use the socks as a liner too! Since I was always sending bags of socks and newspapers and magazines anyway, I would just use them to protect everything. The key it to pack it tight so there isn't any movement at all.

 

[JohnsonsRUs]

Thanks to everyone for your responses. The package is going out tomorrow.

 

[ArmyMom23]

I realize that you probably already sent the package, but when I was deployed my sister sent me some cupcakes and by the time I got them the frosting had liquefied. I got a glad container filled with mushy green chocolate slime.
Yum.
But just so you know when you are deployed homemade cookie crumbs still taste good!!

 

[crl]

My friends always used Pringles cans to pack the cookies in. My mom prefers to use ziploc bags in a box filled with popcorn (or one time it was in the middle of a box of clothing).