Girl Scout Cookies

[kddani]

Originally posted by honeychile
That's what we normally do - in fact, my mother has a couple boxes on order. But the big thing around here is getting 3-4 Girl Scouts (and their mothers) together at a grocery store, and selling them. They had at least forty empty "crates" (the bigger boxes that the boxes of cookies come in) at the store I was at yesterday - and that was at around 10 am. The store even provided bags for them!

you should see them when they sell on Pitt's campus (KD helped a few years).... you've never seen college kids run so fast to get money! They sold a TON!

[AGDee]

Since I was the cookie mom for my daughter's troop this year, I can answer a few questions (yes, I am the person who can't say no... it's that part of the AGD Purpose that says "To contribute to the world's work in the community where I am placed because of the joy of service thereby bestowed and the talent of leadership multiplied").

1) There are numerous bakers around the country who produce Girl Scout cookies. In fact, different councils within the same state even use different bakers and sometimes offer different varieties. There are also price differences between councils because of this. (Also because different councils divvy up profits differently)

2) The shortbread ones from our baker this year are as good as ever.

3) The girls first take orders and put those orders in called "The Initial Order". The troops then apply for "cookie booths" to sell additional cookies in the grocery stores, banks, etc. to reach those who didn't get a chance to order any. The troop decides how many to try to sell and how many cases to order for that. It's risky, because you can get stuck with product. Girls who help sell those also get incentives for the ones they sell during cookie booths. So, cookie sales end up lasting from order taking in December to when the final money is due (mid-March for our area).


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[bekibug]

GIRL SCOUT COOKIES ARE LIKE CRACK. OH SO BAD FOR YOU (yet oh so good)!

I'm rather partial to Thin Mints and the ones with coconut. Not a coconut fan, but I think there is some secret ingredient that makes me drool just thinking about them.

[kstar]

Oh g*d.

Mom was the Cookie Coordinator for our Service Unit, which is the next break down after the council. She was in charge of separating all the cookies for the individual troops, which meant that we had cookies in our living room, family room, and garage for a couple months EVRY year! We had two cleaning ladies quit over the mess.

I've been a Girl Scout since I was in Kindergarten, *stops to count* 17 years, now I have a lifetime membership. Dad's been a member for 13 years now,and mom started when she was in first grade (no Daisy scouts yet)! Let's see, that was the 1959-1960 school year!

BTW, they should be Girl Guides anywhere that is/was part of the British COmmonwealth.

[cash78mere]

Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
Just curious-

Most of you are talking about buying them from the girl scouts- you dont have the orderforms ahead of time and the cookies come a month later? That's what we do in Iowa. I know when I was in Lansing, MI for a conference 2 years ago there were girlscouts standing outside a bookstore selling cookies- I just thought their mother had bought a case and was making them sell them.

everyone is correct when they say they do it both ways.

a main reason why they now sell in front of stores is that very few kids go door to door anymore because it isn't safe. i think they even tell you not to do it. so it's safer to stand in front of your local waldbaum's with your mom to sell them.

i know when i was a brownie, we all went door to door with our friends. ahhh, how times have changed...

[33girl]

Honey - my Trefoils seemed a little overdone, but still yummy. The girl I got them from was from Monroeville/Murrysville. The Tagalongs & Samoas rocked.

[hottytoddy]

One word.

Samoas!

Bobby, you'd probably like those.....

[lyrica9]

what i love is the girl scout cookie ice cream! i think dreyers makes it... oh gods, it's so awesome. i saw some in the grocery store a few weeks ago and i got all excited about it, even though i wasn't buying any.

[lonestaradpi]

I love girl scout cookie time!! It is my favorite time of the year. I teach first grade so I always have students and former students come and I preorder them. Um, I like Samoas, Thin Mints, Tagalongs, Do Si Dos, and Trefoils. I have so many right now! I was a girl scout years ago and have always lived for mid February when the cookies start rolling in! I know that each council is different, but a few years back, did they start to change the name's of the cookies? They did that around here and I'm glad that they have gone back to the same old tried and true names. I never try the "new" flavors. Only the traditional one.

Honey, my Trefoils are great!

My husband was a boy scout and he says he feels sorry for the boy scouts because the GS have their wonderful, have to have them cookies and all the boys have is some popcorn. I buy from them too. Oh well, I'm a sucker for those kind of things.

[pinkyphimu]

my order is expected on thursday and i can't wait. i only knew one person selling them, so i ordered a ton from her! i can't wait to get the oatmeal ones with the strawberry filling.....i forget their name but they were new last year....and OH SO YUMMMY! plus, i put in my order for lots of thin mints that i can pretend to hide in the back of the freezer for a while...lol. never happed yet, but this is a new gs cookie year!

[AOIIalum]

We order a case (yes, you read that right) of Tagalongs every year, plus a couple assorted boxes. Tagalongs freeze beautifully, and they are SO GOOD straight from the freezer! Since there's 5 of us around here, each of us gets 3 cookies per box.

Somehow we actually have 3 boxes left in the freezer from last year. Of course, that means we get to eat a box this week because the new ones should be here soon.

[tinydancer]

Can't wait for my Thin Mints. I usually buy about 4 boxes and freeze them. I try to limit myself to 4 a day (4 cookies not 4 boxes!) and they last for a looonnnggg time.

[pinkyphimu]

Originally posted by tinydancer
Can't wait for my Thin Mints. I usually buy about 4 boxes and freeze them. I try to limit myself to 4 a day (4 cookies not 4 boxes!) and they last for a looonnnggg time.

such willpower!!! could you share it with me, cuz i could never do that. i would bargain if i eat the four for today, plus 4 for tomorrow, then i will just skip tomorrow. lol...in a minute the whole box would be gone!

[honeychile]

I'm glad that everyone else has good Trefoils - maybe this box is from last year or something. I wanted to get the Samoas, but thought I'd be a good girl (what do they have, something like 80 grams of fat in each one or something? Worth every gram, but still...).

One trick we found out one year, when my mother bought 20 boxes of Thin Mints to help her favorite neighbor kid win a prize. Crush up a box of Thin Mints, really fine. Place in the bottom of a microwavable pan, and nuke until the chocolate melts. Refrigerate. Crush up a second box of Thin Mints, just not as fine, and mix in with a box of your favorite ice cream (softened). Pour ice cream mix into the pan of Thin Mint "crust" and freeze.

This works best about 4-5 months after Cookie Season and you think you'll scream if you even try to eat one more of those suckers!

I've really got to get some Samoas!!!

[sigmagrrl]

Originally posted by pinkyphimu
i can't wait to get the oatmeal ones with the strawberry filling.....i forget their name but they were new last year....and OH SO YUMMMY!

We didn't have those!!!

I ordered and received my cookies and the Samoas are too sweet now ...I wish they tasted the way they did when I was younger...I don't know, maybe I've changed, not the recipe...That's more likely...