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My brother is taking the SATs for the first time today, so I baked these chocolate chip cookies for him as my way of saying good luck. How many other big sisters do you know that perform such acts of kindness for their younger brother?

I know he will do fine; in fact, I’m pretty sure he’ll get a higher score than I did on my SATs (his ACT scores are already higher than mine were!). Still, I wanted to do a little extra something for him as my way of wishing him luck. It was either bake him his favorite cookies or get up at the crack of dawn to wish him luck when he left to take the test. I might be an awesome big sister, but I’m not willing to forgo sleep in my pursuit of sisterly awesomeness!

I had a sudden craving for fruit when I was grocery shopping last weekend, but I never really did anything with my purchased strawberries. However, while rummaging around in my fridge, I came across the following things:

• Dark chocolate squares used in fondue cooking
• Heavy whipping cream
• The aforementioned strawberries

Of course, being the dessert-a-holic that I am, I decided to combine all these ingredients to make a yummy desert. I set about making chocolate covered strawberries using my double boiler to melt the chocolate and boy, are they delicious! They’re low-maintenance too, as I covered my plates in saran wrap before I set each chocolate dipped strawberry on it before cooling so I don’t even need to scrape the chocolate off the plates when cleaning them.

The best part, though, is that I can justify eating loads of these at once because underneath the chocolate is strawberry… and everyone knows strawberries are healthy!

My roommate and I went grocery shopping to stock up on food and drinks and among our purchases was this box of clementines. They were on sale and as my roommate and I both like them, we decided to buy the box of them as it is always good to have fruit on hand. She and I have been eating mainly junk food ever since the semester started and neither of us are comfortable with the idea of us maintaining a junk food diet. So, these clementines are our first venture into trying to become healthier.

I haven’t had clementines since like, the third grade, so I was very excited to try them again as I remember them being delicious. And delicious they are! Clementines really are the perfect snack. They’re tasty, healthy, easy to eat, and convenient to carry around if one needs a portable bite to eat. I strongly suspect my roommate and I will have devoured this entire box of clementines in about a week… they’re simply too yummy to resist!