Girl Scout Cookies

I have a new infatuation now, thanks to the do-gooding Girl Scouts of Wharton County. A few weeks ago, my cute little cousin Bailey Gubert (or should I say Bailey's mom Janet) hit me up to buy some Girl Scout Cookies. Of course, I said yes. The price break for the cookies was like buy 12 boxes, get a discount. Considering the price was actually very affordable, I said I'd buy 12 boxes.

I should preface that by explaining my thinking behind purchasing this many was not because I plan on eating 360 cookies myself, but I thought that since they came in around this time that we could use them at the ranch to hand out as snacks when we had visitors during the Houston show which is coming up next week.

Well, last Wednesday night when we got to church, Janet had the entire back row of church filled up with cookie orders. I have to admit, I was slightly embarassed considering most people had like 2-3 boxes and I got a whole entire case. So lucky for me, I grabbed mine before church started and quickly took it out to my car so that people wouldn't see me and think I was the reincarnation of the cookie monster.

When I got my order home, the first thing I did was....guess what....stick all the boxes in the freezer! Because EVERYONE knows that Girl Scout Cookies are MuCH better when they are ice cold! I did a quick inventory of my purchases...

Thin Mints -- My absolute favorite prior to this year's purchase (see Lemonades below). These are SO good when you put them in the freezer and then especially if you eat them with ice cream. If you're not familiar with these cookie they are the most popular and oldest variety of the Girl Scout cookie. They are mint-flavored.

Tagalongs (Peanut butter) - The Girl Scouts have officially warned us that we have nothing to fear by eating these peanut butter cookies. Good thing, because I've ate like half a box already. You can't really see much from this photo but they on the inside they are a round cookie that is covered with peanut butter on top, then covered in chocolate. My grandparents refuse to eat this variety this year due to the peanut butter scare, but I'm okay with it, so that just leaves more for me!

Daisy Go Rounds - These are the reduced fat Girl Scout Cookie, so of course I had to try it. Although, when you've got these three other dynamite flavors sitting in your freezer, you don't really want to try to low fat variety. So, I haven't opened this box yet though, because the other temptations are getting to me. To be honest, these may the only ones that I put out at our booth at Houston because I may just eat all the others.

And...

Lemonades - I'll admit, I had never heard of this flavor when I placed my order. But I thought that my mom liked these so I ordered two boxes to try it out. BIG MISTAKE. I should have ordered 22 boxes, because these babies are DEEEE-Liscious! Oh my gosh. So you can't really see much from this picture but the top of the cookie looks like this, but the bottom side is all covered in lemon icing. If you put these in the freezer, it freezes the lemon-flavored icing and these things are to die for.

Today, Luke and Catherine were putting out round bales and stopped by my house to do something with the tractor. So I offered them a treat. Both of them said no, they did not like GS Cookies so they didn't want any. I persisted and got them to come in. And guess what, now THEY are hooked on Lemonades too. I'm telling you, it's impossible to just eat one.

So the next time you see the darling Girl Scouts selling cookies, I highly recommend getting some. And, my plans to have these available at the V8 booth at Houston are probably not going to happen, so you're better off buying your own box!!

The only bad thing, is that these tiny little wonders are NOT healthy! Two cookies wrack up just 160 calories!! So for someone like me, this is somewhat disturbing. But, I figure I can cut myself some slack because by eating the cookies, I'm supporting such a good cause.

And, if you don't know where to get Girl Scout Cookies, you can go to http://www.girlscoutcookies.org/ and type in your zip code and Voila...they tell you where to get them!