Girl Scout Cookie Sales Start This Month, Or Make Them At Home
Just in time for your sweets-banning New Year's resolutions, the Girl Scout troops are back this month, armed with cookie order forms. You know you want some.
But if you're watching the expenses or hydrogenated oils, or just can't wait until the actual boxes show up this spring, Baking Bites has recipe spin-offs for some favorites (Thin Mint, Samoas, Do-Si-Dos, and Tagalongs). While it would shatter the image of magical elves or fairies faraway shaping each Thin Mint or sprinkling coconut onto each Samoa, these might, gasp, taste better, while still looking authentic.
Are you cutting back on Girl Scout cookies this year, for economical or local food activism reasons?
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9 Comments:
Even if you're cutting back on the cookies for the million reasons we should all cut back on the cookies - make a donation to your local troop. They're considering doing away with the cookie sales altogether. Seems a strange thought, I remember my house being stacked with the things (my mom served as the cookie distributor to the troop in town so all the boxes came to her and she counted out everything to each girl).
feriorrenna at 11:20PM on 01/09/09
I can't turn down a girl scout cookie even though I know I can make a better cookie at home. I was a girl scout for many years and in my heart I feel the need to support them. The thought of doing away with cookie sales altogether breaks my heart.
Catharine56 at 1:07AM on 01/10/09
I was a scout and a scout leader. Cookie mothers deserve sainthood. Support your girl scouts now and you might not need to support them later - you know what I mean? And, who doesn't love or know someone who would love Girl Scout Cookies?
PerkyMac at 10:28AM on 01/10/09
I used to buy them by the case and send them to my sons at college. I was a hero to all their friends. Everyone bought the "Stuff" my sons sold over the years for scouts, sports, schools, etc. so I always reciprocated. I no longer buy the cookies, but I do make a donation. Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts deserve our support as positive influences.
ocarol at 10:37AM on 01/10/09
I am just too damned fat to buy cookies. I was thinking of buying a couple of boxes and donating them to the local food pantry. I always try to throw in some treats when they have a can drive. Like some cake mix, bottles of red pepper and tapenade, canned salmon. And who needs a birthday cake more than some poor child in a family using a food pantry to survive.
Do you think cookies are an appropriate donation? Or no?
wickedorchid at 5:51PM on 01/10/09
Cutting back? On Girl Scout cookies? A treat that only comes but once a year and has no supermarket equivalent?
NO! God, no, I'm not cutting back! I'm seeking them out! I need my yearly order of three-by-three! Three Samoas, three Thin mints, three Tagalongs. My Mom gets gifted a Thin Mint, as does my best friend, neither of whom have Scout access.
This year, neither do I! I've actually put a note on the unit bullitin board. There's got to be a Girl Scout in this hospital somewhere.
Making my own Samoas sounds intriguing...but I'll only try if I can't get my hands on a box (or three)
missbhavens at 3:59AM on 01/11/09
I was a Brownie as a kid and couldn't wait for my first daughter to be old enough to join a GS troop! She is 6 years old and a Daisy this year. It is the first year that Daisy can fully participate in the cookie sales and we are very excited! Our troop has chosen the Children's Hospital in Denver, CO as our recipient for the "Gift of Caring" or "Hometown Heroes" program. If you don't want the sugar and calories, I'm sure your local scout can donate a box of cookies to a hospital, fire station, food bank or other worthy cause in your name! Believe me, they will appreciate the thought regardless of calorie count. Thank you all for your support!
2jbabies at 10:23PM on 01/11/09
I was a Girl Scout too, but my paranoid mom had watched too much television, and followed me in a car while I tried to sell cookies, crimping my style. Clearly, The Death of Innocence had already occurred.
However, I loved being a Brownie and a Scout! I never get asked to buy cookies in my area, though--I've heard the quality has been compromised in recent years, though, and the ones I have hadn't tasted as good as my memory, but that might be nostalgia.
For those who are afraid of eating them all because they will go stale--put them in the freezer! Actually, I find that improves their flavor :)
HeartofGlass at 5:47AM on 01/12/09
We are cutting back here, but Girl Scout cookies aren't on the chopping block. I just ordered 4 boxes of Samoas. I totally cheated and ordered them on ebay so I don't have deal with kiddos at the grocery store. I know thats mean to say, but its true.
mhurst826 at 3:23PM on 01/22/09