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If 10,000 Chicago Biters eat an organic pastry instead of a nonorganic one every day for a year, we'll keep the weight of eight cookie jars in pesticides out of the environment.

In 2005, Sesame Street's Cookie Monster exchanged his "C is for Cookie" mantra for "A cookie is a sometimes food" (i.e. eat in moderation) in an attempt to curb childhood obesity.

Smart Cookie

The Bite

Want more from your cookies than good looks? Scarfing a sweet from Lincoln Park-based Whole Bakers is a wiser bite than your average chocolate chipper. All-natural and gluten-free, WB’s delish cookies (hitting specialty stores by summer) come in flavors such as Ginger Joy and cinnamon-sugar Snicker Do, plus special-order decorated batches for most holidays. (The yummy V-Day cookies wooed us first.) And they’re made with organic ingredients such as sweet rice flour, coconut flour, and other gluten-free goodies safe for those with celiac disease (like WB founder Patty Stewart) to keep you feelin’ good...smarty pants.

Wanna Try

Whole Bakers, order online or by phone (773-742-1834). Snicker Do 6-pack, $9.

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