The Little Debbie cakes fascination is funny, especially when they send them to me to send to the troops. Then it is always a nightmare fitting them into a flat rate priority box and putting something in the carton so they don't slide around and somethings around them so they don't get crushed.
Cashews I understand as they are delicious and the crops these last couple of years must have been bountiful as the prices are the lowest I've ever seen them.
I think she picks the Little Debbies because of the individual packaging, and the fact that the chocolate on some is less likely to melt. She usually breaks up the boxes and separates the indivisual packs amongst our three adoped Bravehearts. They all wrote back saying how much they appreciated everything, but went on and on about those little Crystal Light packs that they could mix in their water bottles. We once filled one of the flat rate boxes with AA and AAA batteries. The Post Office lady wasn't too happy about that.
The most touching thing was my niece giving up most of her Halloween candy for one of our shipments back in November. She was absolutely giddy knowing she was helping the soldiers. And when we told her that the soldiers liked to share their candy with the Iraqi children, she got most of her friends to pitch in their candy as well.
I haven't always been able to practice much philanthropy, but there's nothing like getting those letters of appreciation back from the soldiers. It makes me misty every time.