Taste Test Tuesdays

Candy and cookies - you can't go wrong with that.  Well, of course you can if you buy something to try it and wind up liking it and eating the whole bag or box.  To prevent this bingeing behavior and to promote some fun in the office, I started promoting Taste Test Tuesdays.  If there is a new candy or cookie that is being advertised, I will, or someone else will buy them and then we have a staff share.  This started last year towards the end of the school year and this past year it really picked up steam as the companies that make m&m's and oreo's have not been slackers when it comes to providing new flavors.

I usually take a picture of the package and include it in a little invitation for the staff to stop by my desk and have a taste.  I provide an index card where they can vote whether Y - yes, they like it, N - no, they don't like it, or M - maybe they would buy it.  The results have been mostly Y's over the course of the year, but there was one (pina colada candy kisses) that had almost all N's. 

Since I send the e-mail out to StaffAll - the administrators also see it and some of them have remarked that they make it a point to come over to our building when we're having Taste Test Tuesdays.

I've included a slide show of some of the items that we've tried.  There were a few others that I didn't get a picture of.  And this really does help if you're watching what you're eating, because there were a few of those tastes that I would have loved to have more of but since they were for sharing was limited to one!