Girl Scout Cookies!!

As crazy as it is to say, I have a certain weakness for the cookie booths as well even though my own daughter is a Girl Scout. I can't wait for them to come in because I'm craving them already.

That is all that we have in our region. For as long as I can remember we've always only had seven varieties here.

I know that what flavors are available depend on the bakery that provides the cookies. We are with ABC Bakery and the flavors that we have this year are Caramel Delites, Peanut Butter Patties, Thin Mints, Shortbread, Thanks-A-Lot (shortbread with chocolate on bottom), Peanut Butter Sandwich and Lemonade.

Just curious, are those the only flavors (or the number of flavors anyway?). When I was a kid, I recall my friend had a chart of many different girl scout cookie flavors and I thought there was a wayyyyy bigger list. Oh, but the ones you mentioned sound really delish!

Those first few days are crutial. I know our troop is one of the biggest in our city so that's alot of girls. Eh.... all we can do is try. Thankfully they don't work like the boy scouts do.... you don't earn enough selling TOO BAD!

That is a good thing for the Girls. My daughter's troop is actually funded mostly by grants as part of an outreach program, so it isn't quite as important for them to raise the money, but it definitely goes for them to be able to have extra goodies and such.

I was also hoping that Kathryn and I would be able to top what she sold last year, but she has been sick and didn't get her order form early so we missed out on the first few days of sales.

I don't think that we had anything like that that were available for us this year, but I can tell you that they both sound like they would be delicious and absolutely addicting.

I don't think that we have any that are truly sugar free in our region, the closest that we've got is shortbread.

That is funny that you all use them like money in your house. We've never gone to that extent, we just all eat off of whatever box is open at the given time and only allow one box to be open at a time.

I know it may sound abit odd but it's how we started teaching our little girl about responsibilty and the value of money, we started when she was only three. She's in middle school now and really is great with money so I guess it wasn't such a crazy idea after all! She kinda started it by herself since she wanted a Samoa and they are really sugary so I was trying to limit her sugar intake so that's why we got her the shortbread ones which she loves to this day. She asked if she cleaned up her toys from the living room, could she have a Samoas...so that's how it started. I can't stand mint cookies and hubby can't eat coconut so there's no sharing options there! Found a local troop and will be placing an order this week so you did lots of good with this discussion. You reminded us all of how yummy they are and helped the Girl Scouts raise some money. Be Well!!

I'm happy that I was able to do some good with this discussion. I've always been a huge supporter of the Girl Scouts of America throughout my life. I was a chid member of Girl Scouts from 1985-1997 and this year marks the second year that I have been an adult member with my daughter in Girl Scouts.

Too bad our family is so far away from you and Gold Crest because if we weren't, I'd make a special effort to bring my daughter over there to take orders from you and the other residents. I imagine a Girl Scout would be able to collect a ton of orders from the effort.

Girl Scouts of America is a nonprofit so the annual cookie sales are their biggest fundraiser. The money that is raised by the sales of the cookies benefits every level of Girl Scouts all the way from the national level down to the individual troop themselves. Our troop makes $.50 per box to help the girls to have more opportunities in their lives. They do a combination of door to door type of sales and they also set up cookie booths after the cookies have come in that they do at local grocery stores. As far as if it is a common thing for everyone to buy the cookies, I don't think that everyone does, but it is awfully difficult to say no to the innocent little girls.

I have seen that you are able to order them online or through the telephone as well but I haven't really looked into these options. I really don't have to since I have a Girl Scout in my home.

What is funny is that I used to not be able to stand the Thin Mints, but now that I am older, they are one of the ones that I absolutely have to buy every year.

Great choices. I really like them all except for the Lemonaide ones they are just too sweet for my taste. If they were to go back to the old Lemon Pastry Creme cookies though, I really would love them all.

My favorite way to eat the mint cookies is with ice cream. I can't exactly explain it, but they are yummy like that.

I'm not sure if the price is the same everywhere, but this year in our Girl Scout Council they are $3.50 a box, so for us it is no change from last year but I think I have heard that some places might be selling them for $4.00 a box.

The are rather expensive these days. I always order more than a couple of boxes though for the simple fact that if I don't order a ton of them, I am out of luck because my wonderful husband will sit down and eat an entire box in a single sitting.

I used to like the lemon cookies that they had a long time ago when I was a little girl, but I'm not so fond of the newer lemon cookies because I think they just taste too sweet. Thank you for sharing.