Make Girl Scout Cookies at Home!

• Your post would have been really great - IF - you hadn't dropped the F-BOMB! (and right before "the girl scouts")....shame shame...

• actualy im a girl scout and its only 3.75 so we will be at kroger this coming friday and at lows this coming saturday and on the same saturday we get to go to the mall locken at south park. Thats were our parents drop us off at 9:30 at night and we stay up the whole night and have a lot of fun and then our parents have to get up and pick us up at 6:30 in the morning!!!!!!

• Those little twerps have been getting a free pass on competition for as long as I can remember. It's time for them to grow up and come face to face with the cold, hard realities of capitalism.

• My daughter is a girl scout and proceeds from the cookie sales enable her to participate in activities that I would not be able to afford otherwise. @formerscout Donating to the local council would not be as beneficial to the individual troops.

• Red085 has a point. 15 cents might not sound like a big difference but that's $450 if you've got a troop of twenty girls each selling about 150 boxes. I did GS from first grade through high school and we went rock climbing, to camps, spent the night at a science center, etc. However, giving a dollar to save yourself and give the troop even more is even better! Or if you really want a win-win, they have a program where you buy a box and have it sent to the troops in places like Iraq. So the cookies may be overpriced but I know that if I was serving the country, well, they're so American and delicious! :)

• Girl Scouts sell cookies to raise money for their troop. It is an excellent organization. I think there is too much information out there. Shame on you.

• Okay, so he was 15-19 cents off, that'll get the troop, what, half a spool of thread? You still save money and could donate far more directly to them than they would have received through cookie sales. (i.e. you could give the troop a *whole dollar* (or more, if you want to be respectful))

• DUH_ I'm a girl scout leader. The writer of the article said GS Cookies are on sale for 3 weeks. IN EVERY STATE the start/end dates are different, but they are ALWAYS pre-ordered/sold for 8 weeks. DUH.

• dem bitches are gonna be heated.

• I just looked up where the profits go: 10-15% of the box price goes to the troop selling it, over 50% goes to Girl Scouts of America (a very worthy organization!), and the rest to the manufacturer. So... why not buy a lot AND bake a lot? I can certainly EAT a lot of them!

• Duh. IT VARIES REGIONALLY. That way the cookie factory has a steady steam year round.

• Ummm.. where'd you get your info?Girl scout cookie sales start in mid-January with pre-orders and end mid-March. Let's do a little research before we write, eh???

• Actually former scout- anywhere from 65 to 69 cents stays with the troop that sells them. Another dollar stays in their local council, another part stays in their local service unit, and less than half of the cost goes back to the baker and to GSUSA.

• YES!

• Jersey Shore tag. Nice.

• @ninformant- only 50 cents from each box goes to the girl scout troop that sells them. You'd be much better off making these cookies and donating the money you would have spent on overpriced cookies directly to your local council

• What, no Tagalong recipe!? They're easily the best (dunno why Thin Mints sell so well...).

• How can you call them girl scout cookies when they don't contain any girl scout at all?

• You can get thin mints at the dollar store but they're called "fudge mint cookies"

• Too bad you didn't include the Peanut Butter Patties recipe... I can taste them just thinking about them.

• Great article! now we can all make the cookies at home and say fuck the girl scouts right? i mean, like the money they raise goes to any good causes, right? like, say, funding the girl scout activities? who's with me? who's freakin' with me?!!!! anyone? no?

• OMG I love Thin Mints! I cant wait. I but a case every year and it usually lasts a month. Might buy 2 cases this year :) www.privacy-tools.au.tc

• Keebler Grasshoppers= generic thin mints. Identical in taste and available year 'round.

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