Girl Scout cookies...

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  • linbein
    linbein Posts: 11 Member
    My daughter is a Girl Scout. Thin Mints are the devil for me for sure. But I ordered some to support her, and I will just limit them. However, I have read some other good ideas on here, and our troop does the some of them. You can check the box to donate the boxes. You are still supporting scouts, but you don't have to have the cookies in your house. Our troop takes them over to the USO at the airport and hands them straight to soldiers waiting there. It makes their day, and it's good for the girls to get to do it personally.
  • amez1974
    amez1974 Posts: 213 Member
    As a former GS leader and cookie mom I believe that cookies are sold in different parts of the country at different times. Because it's really snowy up north cookies are sold in the winter in the south and here in Texas they're sold in January.

    We're in Northern Ohio and we are selling right now--cookie booths can get pretty cold!

    I have two girls in Girl Scouts, I'm a leader and the cookie mom! I will have nearly 2000 boxes of cookies sitting in my house for a few days and then a few hundred until our booths are over. My house will even smell like Thin Mints!!
  • sukatx
    sukatx Posts: 103
    I hate to add fuel to the fire, but...

    I found a cookie. They're Fudge Mint cookies by Back to Nature. You really can only find them in gourmet-type grocery stores. They taste JUST like Thin Mints.

    Thin Mints are 160 calories for 4, and these Fudge Mint cookies are 150 calories for 4.

    So, after my daughter goes to bed, I have 2 Fudge Mint cookies and a sugar free hot chocolate (50 calories) for a nice before-bedtime snack for 125 calories.
  • morf13
    morf13 Posts: 151 Member
    I can see from the posts here that we have alot of girl scout cookie fans :) I actually never thought of just telling the girlscouts that I could make a donation instead of taking the cookies,good idea

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