Thanks for this thread, Johnny. What a great idea! I have it bookmarked and will refer to it often.
p.s. Am in the market for recipes for tasty, cheap, and nutritious cookies to send in care packages to a certain Sarge; also looking for veggie soup recipes for myself, with the same three qualifiers.:)
Kid, I don't know on cookies, I'll have to look around. My top 3 are peanutbutter, Lake Worth Pecan Sandies, and Sugar cookies. But they all use large % of butterfat solids. And without any of the commercial preservatives, I don't know how well they would ship. I only cook what I can eat in 3 days. And butter is NOT cheap.
Let me look around or ask your question on this thread addressed to all.
On the veg soup, I can help you. Do you not want ANY animal proteins in it? No chicken stock?
/johnny