Girl Scout Cookies are Evil

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  • Luv2CruzDeb
    Luv2CruzDeb Posts: 2 Member
    Carmel delights are my weakness, I try to eat just one....Just can't do it. Oh well it's just once a year :oP
  • Julie_Donahue
    Julie_Donahue Posts: 394 Member
    Yesterday when I walked out of Wal-Mart (the Girl Scouts camp out in front of Sam's Club and Wal-Mart every weekend in January and February), the little Brownie said, "It's the last weekend to buy cookies". I got out to my car and said to hubby, "Yes! Thank God! It's the last week for Girl Scout Cookies!!"
  • daniellealys
    daniellealys Posts: 301 Member
    DO NOT BUY THEM. I havent bought them in years. just dont do it. if they were in my house i would eat them all.

    My wife is the "cookie mom" for my daughter's troop this year - I have 2 pallets of them in my garage that I have to sneak past to get to my bench and treadmill. :)
    oh wow, thats dangerous! my "wife" would come home one day to me passed out in the garage with 50 empty boxes of cookies surrounding me! You are a better person than I!!!!!!!
  • daniellealys
    daniellealys Posts: 301 Member
    btw, after seeing this post I decided to find paleo versions of the girl scott cookie recipes. I pined them and cannot wait to try them when I am done with whole 30 (20 more days!) ;D
  • seif0068
    seif0068 Posts: 193 Member
    I bought myself one box and I have been great so far, limiting myself to one or two cookies on days they fit in my calories. I used to eat half a box in one sitting!
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,421 Member
    I always buy them...one box of Samoans, and eat the whole box in less than 24 hours. I know it going in, and it's over.


    On another note. one of the Moms at the Safeway Girl Scout cookie stand had a little credit card swipey thingy attached to her smart phone so they could take credit cards at the cookie stand via some type of app.









    What could possibly go wrong? :noway:
  • Bubsys_mom
    Bubsys_mom Posts: 124 Member
    The best way to avoid them is to hold up a crucifix and hiss at the girl scouts on your way in and out of the grocery store.

    I giggled out loud reading that. xD
  • 2EggsSeparated
    2EggsSeparated Posts: 107
    My kid is a GS and she sold a TON of cookies this year. Needless to say, we got stuck with a few boxes because we can't find the people that ordered them (and sadly, I think one person who ordered is losing their house). Plus my husband bought from others at work -- it's ok, they bought from us. lol We have LOTS of boxes around the house.

    So far, I have been good with the cookies in the house. If I have had 10 cookies in the last 14 days, that would have been a lot. However, I did manage to eat a whole brownie thingie tonight at dinner. It's my anniversary, so it's ok. What's not ok is that I ate a whole bag of goldfish crackers when i got home. I figure if i'm going go over in calories, I might as well do it right!

    maybe next time I should stick with just a few cookies...
  • Alyssa__Lauren
    Alyssa__Lauren Posts: 148 Member
    I just bought a box of Tagalongs from a little girl at the school I teach at. I hope I eat it very slowly lol.
  • taylorwaylor
    taylorwaylor Posts: 417 Member
    I havent had them in foreverrrr... But there are like 6 boxes in my home now! Also, ive seen this thin mint protein shake recipie.... and it sounds sooo gooood.
  • 37434958
    37434958 Posts: 457 Member
    *kitten* Smack!

    I'm a girl scout! :P
  • Sunka1
    Sunka1 Posts: 217 Member
    Only the ones that are made with real Girl Scouts.

    I am sure that would be better nutritionally. Seriously, can't the Girl Scouts get a grip and sell something that doesn't feel the obesity epidemic.
  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
    That's why I don't buy them. :bigsmile:
  • pabigwood
    pabigwood Posts: 19 Member
    Thin Mints, tasty, tasty evil!
  • jbutterflye
    jbutterflye Posts: 1,914 Member
    Out of 4 boxes I only had 1 cookie, a Samoa. I've been soooo good. Lol!
  • LifeJacketWaterJogger
    LifeJacketWaterJogger Posts: 231 Member
    no they are not, they taste great, we just cannot get greedy! we're the problem not the cookies. get some self control. lol
  • dcuevas6235
    dcuevas6235 Posts: 135
    Tagalongs are the devil! They are engineered to make you want more while your still chewing them!
  • acogg
    acogg Posts: 1,870 Member
    Ssssssamoas! See? Even their name hisses like a snake! And they disappear like magic! Then they reappear on my body. Evil black magic!
  • violenceandlace
    violenceandlace Posts: 30
    I usually buy 15 boxes every year - 5 each of Thin Mints, Tagalongs, and Samoas. This year I only bought 1 box of each. I am separating them into individual serving-size bags, and I'm only allowed to have one serving, only on days that I work out enough calories to counteract, and when they're gone, they're gone.
  • dcuevas6235
    dcuevas6235 Posts: 135
    The best way to avoid them is to hold up a crucifix and hiss at the girl scouts on your way in and out of the grocery store.

    I have to wear garlic around my neck when I walk down the street. I get the jitters every time I hear a radioflyer wagon approaching.
  • zillah73
    zillah73 Posts: 505 Member
    I could eat a whole box of samoas in one sitting. Hence, I do not buy them.
  • alisonsurf
    alisonsurf Posts: 92 Member
    I CANNOT FIND ANY GIRL SCOUTS!!!!!!

    Seriously, all I want is one box of Samoas. I freeze then and then nurse one a day and it takes like 15 minutes to scrape miniscule amounts of frozen caramel and cookie off the edges. If you get greedy, the caramel glues your teeth together and then it takes that long for it to melt and unstick your jaw so you have to take it reaalllllly slow.
  • Sharonks
    Sharonks Posts: 884 Member
    I was accosted by the Girl Scouts at the grocery store. Since I was a leader, cookie mom, and even cookie manager I am forced to buy them. I limited to 2 boxes and ate 2-4 per day. Happily they are gone and hopefully I won't run across anymore. It does take a lot of self control but it is that way with everything although I have to admit I try to not buy junk then I'm not tempted.
  • singledj
    singledj Posts: 147 Member
    My daughter is a girl scout. Instead of buying them for the house we donate to troops and the local homeless shelters. It saves us the calories and feels good to do something nice and help my DDs troop.


    This is awesome!! The Girl Scouts need support and if you don't want to eat the cookies yourself... donating them is a great alternative!! It's a win win situation!!
  • StrongandTender
    StrongandTender Posts: 44 Member
    Too true! I bought 10 boxes (to support a former student). Ate 3.5, then I took all the willpower I had, threw away 1/2 box, and gave away the other 6. I made my best friend's kids very happy and the scale is doing what I want it to. But GS cookies are still evil.
  • Hanfordrose
    Hanfordrose Posts: 688 Member
    I could eat a whole box of samoas in one sitting. Hence, I do not buy them.

    If a 'sitting' is 5 minutes or less...that was me. I use the word 'WAS', because I cannot trust myself with just ONE samoa or even ONE box of samoa. Thin MInts are just a chaser, when the samoas are gone. I know my addiction.

    Unbelieve as it may seem...when I was a child and a girl scout, we went door to door with a wagon. We had only one kind of cookie back then. At some point in time, it occured to me that I could stand outside the local Safeway and ask folks to buy my cookies, unstead of the ones in the store. No one ran me off, and I sold more cookies that year than any other girl scout in San Diego County.

    No other scouts in my area were doing such a 'pushy thing' back in the early 50's. Do you suppose that I started something? ; )
  • Ron6098
    Ron6098 Posts: 31
    My mother is still active in the girl scouts. Helps girls with their gold awards. She says they don't go door to door anymore due to safety concerns
  • acogg
    acogg Posts: 1,870 Member
    I was a Campfire girl and we sold mints that were wonderful in hot chocolate. I don't even know if Campfire Girls even exist anymore since they allowed Campfire boys. Buncha boys who like to dress up like Hiawatha and Sacajawea? :sad: :noway:
  • 2EggsSeparated
    2EggsSeparated Posts: 107
    My mother is still active in the girl scouts. Helps girls with their gold awards. She says they don't go door to door anymore due to safety concerns

    My kid went door to door, and she's not the only one in her troop who did. As a matter of fact, they encourage door to door selling in their cookie selling materials.
  • chocl8girl
    chocl8girl Posts: 1,968 Member
    The other day I met a Girl Scout with a credit card reader on her phone. You cannot tell me that they are not agents of evil...

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