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100 calories of your favorite holiday cookies

Counting calories? Here's 100 calories of some popular holiday cookies.

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Experts say people gain between a pound and a pound-and-a-half in the final months of the year, and the main culprit is all of the holiday parties, treats and eats.

Over the next couple of weeks, holiday cookie trays will be everywhere. Here's 100 calories of each treat to help keep that cookie crush in check:

–3 of Pepperidge Farm Gingerman Cookies — plus the foot of another

– 1.5 Nabisco Winter Oreos. They're decked out in red, but the flavor is the same

– 2.5 Bahlsen brand Pfeffernusse dome cookies

– 2.33 Sherwood Danish Delights butter cookies. The tins are a familiar sight during the holidays

– 1.5 Pepperidge Farm Milano Candy Cane version. The cookie layers chocolate and peppermint to make up its 100 calories

– Almost 1.5 Keebler Fudge Stripes Peppermint cookies

–Almost 3 Trader Joe's Dark Chocolate Stars Shortbread cookies

– Almost 2 Pillsbury Ready to Bake Shape Sugar Cookies

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