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Well here's something I didn't see coming: Sugar-Free Chocolate Chip Girl Scout cookies. I walked into the lunch room at work and there, on the stainless steel countertop, rested this never-before-seen box of cookies.

"Where did these come from?" I asked my co-worker.

"No idea," they said, through a mouthful of crumbs. "But they're pretty tasty."

(I love when people without diabetes can't tell that they're eating something less crammed with sugar than what they're used to.)

According to the Meet the Cookies section of the Girl Scout site (yes, this is real - meet the cookies), "New for 2008, Sugar Free Chocolate Chip Cookies give those who need or prefer sugar free products have a new way to support Girl Scouting-and a scrumptious new snack at bedtime, or any time! They are made by Little Brownie Bakers."

Okay. These little suckers are about 22 grams of carbs per three cookies, and contain 7 grams of sugar alcohols. I'm always wary of sugar alcohols, finding that they affect my blood sugar regardless of the claims that they "shouldn't." For me, I need to bolus for the carbs, regardless of how many of them are sugar alcohols. If I don't, I end up with a higher blood sugar. Do you guys see that, too?

So I popped two cookies, took a unit and a half to cover the approximately 15 grams of crabs I had consumed, and said a whispered "thank you" to the Girl Scouts. Maybe these little sugar-free cookies could be the answer to the Tagalongs I'd prefer to be snacking on.

Bless the Little Brownie Bakers. :)