Grateful for your informative site!! I'm ready to jump on the frozen pie and baked goods lists!! I've found that in shipping cookies to Iraq/Afghanistan, etc that the following method works well. Bake and freeze cookies solid -freezing lessens the smashing of cookies in the vac procedure. Using a vacuum packing bag slide layers of cookies between sheets of parchment or waxed paper and Vac to close per device's directions. (I've found that putting them in bottom-to-bottom supports the cookies in the vac closure and avoids the arched cookies after being sucked down over the top of the underlying cookie.) Return to freezer til ready to mail. My son's feedback led to the use of a dividing paper due to the sandwiching of cookies in the dessert temperatures. Cookies travel securely and stay fresh til opened- at which point they vanish, I'm told. Takes less packing materials to ship and less to have to discard at the recipient's end. The rigidness of the vac'd parcel allows it to be stuffed in duffles, etc. Oh, and if cookie or cookie-dough snitchers need to be disuaded- store items in vacuum'd bags. One of my weight management self-imposed secrets, as well! Thanks so much for sharing these tips. I'm sure many, many people will find this helpful. ~ MaryJane

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