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My cat LOVES adhesive. We find her hoarding stolen scraps of tape and stickers all the time just to sit and lick them.

CJ, You're amazing.

healthy selections that are advertised or titled as such on the menu. i appreciate nutritional information being available if I want to see it, but I would prefer it not be on the menu itself. nothing is more embarrassing than ordering the "fit n delicious!" anything while all your friends point and do the whole "you and your healthy food again. pssh." seriously. i know what's good for me, i know what's not, don't draw attention to it.

Thank you for all the comments, I need them by this weekend so that is why Im not buying them offline and we are not allowed to have crockpots etc, due to the fire hazard.

no preferred location exactly, but it'd be convenient if it's an easy place to find (not especially familiar with st. louis)

oh, if you're not trying to lose weight, but just want to be healthier over all, i wouldn't worry about the butter. maybe switch to a butter which includes omega fatty acids. yeah. that's my last post lol.

Nearly all of the previous comments offer good substitutes for butter except the truth is that, "calorically" speaking, none of them are any better than the butter. So if you are trying to cut back on butter in order to lose weight, I wouldn't recommend substituting butter for shortening, creamers, yogurt, or oil.-they all have the same amount of calories more or less. Depends on the yogurt.

The best bet, in my opinion, would simply be to use a reduced calorie butter, or reduced calorie butter substitute. Applesauce can be used in things such as cakes and cupcakes, I don't know about pies - I doubt it.

Pad thai!

Love-COCONUT CHOCOLATES, soynuts, soy products in general

Dislike-Ranch dressing, processed cheese, cheese fondue, string cheese, cream cheese, sour cream, steak, real mayonnaise, wasabi, egg yolk (as in over easy eggs, etc), white gravies

I second the scones idea. One idea that you may consider:
Don't prepare the baked good yourself, simply package the ingrediants in some creative way so that the recipient can bake it themselves (i.e. a fancy decorated bag with a personalized label that contains flour,spices,etc with a nifty recipe card) : ) hope i helped

I had to giggle when I read this!
Sorry that my comment isn't helpful at all to your situation, but I have a friend who is in an organization with me at school and she is from China. We were discussing a bake sale for fund raising, and she asked "How do you bake?" and we told her just to buy some cheap packaged stuff, get some water, and use an oven. The look on her face was so cute "What's an oven?"