There are two licensed Girl Scout Cookie Bakers in the US. Each Girl Scout council chooses the cookie baker, either Little Brownie Bakers or ABC Bakers.

Except for THIN MINTS® and TREFOILS®, the cookie bakers choose the names of the cookies.

So, Little Brownie Bakers Calls them Do-si-dos® while ABC Bakers calls them Peanut Butter Sandwich. Each company also develops their own recipes, so if your Girl Scout council switched to a different cookie baker, the cookie will have a different name and may also taste different.

Mainly for safety reasons this is not a good idea. However, in order to sell Girl Scout cookies in front of your house, you should talk to your troop/group leader, or your troop's cookie chair and your service unit cookie chair. This would probably be considered having a booth sale, so permission would have to be given plus they would want to make sure you are following all the safety guidelines.

There would need to be at least one adult present at all times. If a car were to stop by, the people in the car would need to get out and come to you or the adult with you should be the one to approach the car.

Work hard, provide good customer service, and be friendly and helpful!

Be sure you go back to customers from previous years. Generally, if you continue to go back each year, customers will buy more. If you know of a girl who is no longer in Girl Scouts, ask her for a list of customers.

Read through the cookie sale materials for good ideas.

At a booth sale, be sure to ask people if they would like to purchase some Girl Scout cookies. Politely greet anyone who walks by, even if they just keep on walking.

2010 Girl Scout Cookie choices

Caramel deLites (aka Samoas)

Peanut Butter Patties (aka TagAlongs)

Shortbread (aka Trefoils)

Thin Mints

Peanut Butter Sandwich (aka Do Si Dos)

Thanks-A-Lot (shortbread coated in chocolate on the bottom)

Lemonades (lemon shortbread with lemon filling)

Daisy-Go-Rounds (reduced fat shortbread)

In 2010, Girl Scout Councils which used Little Brownie Bakers sold:

Tagalongs, Thin Mints, Lemon Cremes, Trefoils, Do-Si-Dos, Samoas, Dulce de Leche, and Thank u Berry Munch.

In 2010, Girl Scout Councils which used ABC Bakers sold Thin Mints, Shortbreads, Caramel deLites, Peanut Butter Sandwich, Peanut Butter Patties, Lemonades, Thanks-A-Lot and Daisy Go Rounds.

The shortbread cookies (aka trefoils) are the lowest in sugar and the lowest in fat. The Do-si-dos are the lowest in calories (per serving). A serving of do-si-dos is two cookies. A serving of trefoils is 4 cookies.

Use the Girl Scout Cookie Locator to enter your zip code. You will be able to find information about the cookie sale in your area or the council you should contact for more information.

Each Girl Scout council determines the price of the product, so it will vary depending on the part of the country you live in. Right now, prices range from $3.50 to $5.00 per box.

According to the GSUSA web site, Girl Scouts councils keep about 70% of the proceeds with the rest going to the cookie bakers. A portion of that 70%, as determined by the council, goes to the troop or group selling the cookies. The rest is used by the Girl Scout council to provide services to the Girl Scouts in that council.

Each Girl Scout council determines the price of the cookies, the amount per box each troop will receive for the boxes they sell, and the incentives the girls can earn. According to information on a Girl Scout discussion group, in 2011, the lowest amount a troop receives is $0.45 per box and the highest is $0.76 per box.

Of the five cookie flavors which are the top sellers and are pretty much the same each year, the Shortbreads/Trefoils account for only 9% of the sales.

The other flavors which usually change every couple of years, account for a total of 23% of the total sales. Usually, the lowest selling cookie is changed the next year which was the case for the Reduced Fat Daisy Go Rounds, which were only sold for one year due to low sales.

In Ohio, a box or package costs about $4.00 each. I hope this answers your question and I hope its helpful.

Girl Scout cookies cost one US Dollar in the years from about 1968 until about 1975.

Girl Scout councils determine the price for cookies in their own council, so not all areas may have been asking $1.00 for Girl Scout cookies during that time.

Depending on the price set by the local Girl Scout council, cookies cost approximately $1.25 to $1.50 in 1982.

Each Girl Scout council chooses the incentives for their council. There are two different companies which bake the Girl Scout cookies and each company offers their own incentives for Girl Scout councils to choose from. Girl Scout councils may also order incentives from other sources or offer some form of cookie credit as incentives.

You would need to contact your local Girl Scout council to find out what incentives they are offering.

There are many different varieties of Girl Scout cookies and each variety has its own weight. You can look at each box to determine how much that particular variety of Girl Scout cookie weighs. Be sure to check the serving size as the weight is by serving size, not individual cookie.

For example, 4 Thin Mints weigh a total of 32 grams and 2 Tagalongs/Peanut Butter Patties weigh a total of 25 grams.

Currently there are two licensed Girl Scout cookie bakers. The bakers can offer up to eight kinds of Girl Scout Cookies. The bakers must always offer Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Sandwich/Do-Si-Dos and Shortbreads/Trefoils. Any of the five optional cookies can be changed each year, however, some of the best sellers have been around for many years: Caramel de Lites/Samoas, and Peanut Butter Patties/Tagalongs.

For the 2011 Cookie Sale, between the two bakers, there are a total of 11 different flavors of Girl Scout cookies - the five mentioned above plus Lemon Chalet Cremes, Lemonades, Dulce de Leche, Thank U Berry Munch, Thanks-A-Lot, and Shout Outs!

Girl Scout cookies in the US are not marked with an expiration date due to the fact that they are baked for a once-a-year sale season. The cookies are shipped on a first produced, first shipped basis based on an internal production code that the baking companies use. No cookies are carried over to the next year.

Girl Scout Cookies have a shelf life of about 8 weeks or one year if kept in a freezer.

Each World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) member country/organization sets their own guidelines for money earning projects for their members, so it is likely that French Girl Guides/Girl Scouts do not sell cookies. No information about cookie sales is available on the French Girl Guide/Girl Scout web sites.

However, members of USA Girl Scouts Overseas sell cookies as members of the Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) and may be selling cookies in France.

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Each Girl Scout council determines the price of the cookies for their council. For the 2011 cookie sale, some councils set their price at $3.50 per box and some councils set their price at $4.00 per box. Other councils may have set a different price.

Use the Girl Scout Cookie Finder (see Related Links) to contact your local Girl Scout council.

The licensed bakers (Little Brownie Bakers and ABC Bakers) can offer up to eight varieties of cookies for Girl Scouts to sell.

They must always sell Thin Mints, Peanut Butter Sandwich/Do-si-dos® and Shortbread/Trefoils.

The other five optional cookies can be changed each year, however, the Samoas®/Caramel deLites® and the Peanut Butter Patties®/Tagalongs® are so popular that it is unlikely they will be changed.

For 2014, ABC Bakers also have Lemonades, Thanks-a-Lot, Cranberry Citrus Crisps, and Chocolate Chip Shortbread.

Little Brownie Bakers also have Savannah Smiles, Dulce de Leche, and Thank U Berry Munch.

The first troop known to sell Girl Scout cookies was the Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma in December of 1917. The girls and their mothers baked cookies in their homes. They then sold the cookies in the school cafeteria. Selling cookies was a good way to earn money to finance troop activities.

They do not. In fact, they do not often eat cookies or so I've heard.

In addition:

Girl Guiding Scotland is a part of Girl Guiding United Kingdom.

Each World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) member country/organization sets their own guidelines for money earning projects for their members, so it is possible that Girl Guiding UK does not sell cookies.

Girl Guiding UK does provide information about a variety of fundraising projects troops may do in their local communities.

The first cookies sold by Girl Scout troops in the 1920's and 1920's were sold for 25 to 35 cents per dozen. In the mid-1950's, cookies were being sold for 50 cents per box and at 65 to 75 cents per box in the mid 1960's. By the 1970's, the price of a box of Girl Scout cookies was about $1.00 to $1.25 and by 1986 they were selling for $2.00 per box. In the 1990's the cookies were selling for $2.50 per box and by 2000, the price was $3.00 per box. In the 2011 Girl Scout cookie sale, most councils were selling the cookies for $3.50 to $4.00 per box.

For the 2014 Girl Scout Cookie Sale, ABC Bakers Thin Mints have about 32 cookies per box and Little Brownie Bakers Thin Mints have about 28 cookies per box. Note that the boxes are filled by weight, not by the amount of cookies, so the number of cookies may vary.

Each Girl Scout council determines their sales period, price, and sales methods. Some councils take pre-orders while others have cookies on hand for direct sales. Most councils also set up booth sales for Girl Scout Troops while all girls are encouraged to make individual sales.

GSUSA set up a web site where anyone can enter their zip code and find out which council they can order from and when that council's cookie sale starts.

If you don't know how to contact that council, you can go to GSUSA's Council Finder web site for contact information.

You can also go to the Little Brownie Bakers Cookie Locator web site. It will give you information about current cookie sales and contact information for the council office.