Well crap! My son just started school this year, tiny little school with a ton of pressure to buy, buy and buy. If I have to, I'll buy the girls their own boxes. No freaking way the cookies are coming home with me. I can resist the cookies - but not a cute little face pleading with me to buy.
As a former girl scout, I am a pushover at cookie time. Fortunately I donate all of mine - and they are nice enough to deliver them to my designated recipient so I never lay eyes (or fingers) on them
I will continue my "just say no" policy. 4 years, not a cookie!
And it's that I don't LIKE Girl Scout cookies - but I used to eat entire sleeves of Thin Mints at a time (straight from the freezer, baby!). They are a treat I can't be trusted with.
Being the proud father of a former Brownie and Girl Scout...and a participant in many of the merit badges (where I learned to prepare Tadpole in A Hole for dinner)
a single father that went to ALL the activities and campouts...had my own rooms!
and a father that sat many hours in front of Ralph's grocery store to sell cookies...
and a father that disagrees with the "only means to make money by selling the cookies...(but I am not going there!!)
I will say that I am a "sucker" for all the sellers!! I have bought many...MANY...boxes of cookies and it is rare that we eat any! Very rare....
now then...if they sold chips.....that may be different for me!
Ahh Girl Scout cookies! The Samoas.... mmm. But, I've actually come up with a defense strategy- I only buy ThinMints. I can't stand chocolate and mint together, so I just buy a couple boxes of TMs and hand them over to hubby, who in turn works at a boys group home, so he eats one box and usually takes the rest to work. Those little guys don't even stand a chance at the group home.
I must be weird. I like Girl Scout cookies, but I can eat a serving and be done (2-4 cookies depending on variety.) I just order 5 boxes, which will go straight into the freezer to portion out as occasional treats. I do wish they'd bring back the low-fat lemon cremes, but I'm going to try out the new lemon cookies. The Girl Scouts switch up bakers too often, they are always discontinuing or changing names.
I'm with EZMONEY on this one. I'd be in trouble if they sold salty snack type things.
What's in a name? That which we call a Samoa, by any other name would taste as sweet.
I, however, refuse to countenance the downfall of our great society by acknowledging the renaming of the Girl Scout Cookies, a change about which I was not consulted and would have vehemently opposed.
I may have to only grocery shop at Walmart, after dark, for a few weeks. How long does cookie season last? How much are they this year? When I was a plump and rosy-cheeked and excruciatingly cute Brownie Scout, they were two dollars a box. That was in the last couple years of the eighties, though, and the last time I checked, they were (eep!) $3.50/box. How many calories per penny is that? LOL
Being the proud father of a former Brownie and Girl Scout...and a participant in many of the merit badges (where I learned to prepare Tadpole in A Hole for dinner)...
What's Tadpole in a Hole? We didn't do that in my scout troop.
Samoas (er, caramel delights) are my favorite followed by Thin Mints. Zenor, I do like the new lemon cookies (lemonade), and those I really can stop at one or 2. Samoas--I could easily inhale the entire box and still want more.
Zenor - I can eat a serving and be done with it - butbutbut - I'd think about the cookies too much. I'd be aware they were in my kitchen. Torment. I'm good at resisting the actual food, but not the thought.
I recently bought some ice cream bonbons that taste much like a thin mint. Small, 60 calories each, I can stop at one and not think about them that much. I think it's the Girl Scout cookie packaging I like.
Samoas (er, caramel delights) are my favorite followed by Thin Mints. Zenor, I do like the new lemon cookies (lemonade), and those I really can stop at one or 2. Samoas--I could easily inhale the entire box and still want more.
I wanna know what a Tadpole in a Hole is too!
Aside from being delicious, they are binge inducing for me because they're so wonderfully CHEWY!
My son just started school this year, tiny little school with a ton of pressure to buy, buy and buy. If I have to, I'll buy the girls their own boxes. No freaking way the cookies are coming home with me. I can resist the cookies - but not a cute little face pleading with me to buy.
