Below find the types of Girl Scout Cookies offered this year and their ingredients.  Note that:

1. A serving of Girl Scout Cookies will generally cost you 250-300 calories (bet you can’t eat just one)
2. If you like to eat a whole box at a time, figure on 700 to 1000 calories
3. These cookies are NOT good for diabetics

Type of Girl Scout Cookie	Ingredients and Calories
Dulce de Leche – (made with milk caramel chips) – 15 cookies* per 6 ounce box.
Lemon Chalet Cremes™ (rectangular cinnamon-ginger lemon-filled cookies) – 14 cookies* per 8 ounce box.
Lemonades™ (shortbread cookie with a tangy lemon icing) – 16 cookies* per 8.5 ounce box.
Samoas® – Caramel deLites™ (vanilla cookies covered with caramel on top and bottom then rolled in coconut and striped with chocolate) – 15 cookies* per 7 ounce box.
Savannah Smiles™ (crisp, zesty lemon cookies named in honor of the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouting) – 25 cookies per __ ounce box
Shout Outs!™ (Light and crisp, Belgian-style caramelized cookies) – 40 cookies* per 9 ounce box.
Tagalongs® – Peanut Butter Patties® (Regular cookie with soft Peanut Butter and coated with chocolate) – 15 cookies* per 7 ounce box.
Thanks-A-Lot™ used to be known as Animal Treasures and All Abouts (all same type shortbread cookie with chocolate on the bottom) – 16* per 8.5 ounce box
Thank U Berry Munch (A cookie made with premium cranberries and white fudge chips.) – 14 cookies per 6.17 ounce box.
Thin Mints (thin chocolate-peppermint cookie coated in chocolate) – 32 cookies* in an 10 ounce box.
Trefoils – a.k.a. Shortbread – (a shortbread cookie) - 44 cookies* per 10 ounce box.
Do-Si-Dos - Peanut Butter Sandwiches – (peanut butter cookie with peanut butter filling) – 20 cookies* per 8 ounce box.

• A pre-order process whereby girls take orders, turn in their order cards, the council orders the cookies, then the girls go back to the customer to deliver them a few weeks later.
• Direct Sale whereby the girls have the cookies in their possession and sell immediately (the impulse sale—the best sale when it comes to Girl Scout Cookies)
• Fixed locations, typically outside supermarkets, where the girls have and sell cookies.  These locations are not uniformly located throughout the US with some areas having Girls Scout Cookie sales seemingly every 3 miles and others where your nearest location may be 60 miles away.

Additionally, each council runs their sales at different times of the year. There is a zip code locator at www.GirlScoutCookies.org that tells you when cookies go on sale and locations of sale. Cookies are on sale for a bout 5 weeks in each region, generally, during January to April. But again, the sale period can differ because it is controlled by each regional council.

Interestingly, you would think that the organization would sell Girl Scout Cookies on-line and year-round to maximize revenues to the organization. Selling on-line would be a great learning experience to have the girls design web sites and learn something about business in the 21st century.  The technology that is employed currently is limited to:

• A location app for the iphone and Android
• An online zip-code location finder of physical sale locations and hours
• An email request form whereby you can leave your email address and the local organization can contact you when their Girl Scout Cookies go on sale

In fact, not even the price is uniform across the US or the Girl Scout Cookie types.  Each local council sets the price per box, so the price per box may vary from one council to another and from one year to the next.