We are committed to using our powerful voice and brand wherever possible to effect change in this area. Little Brownie Bakers is part of the global confectionery and branded-chocolate company Ferrero Group. Ferrero is committed to working on the challenges to end deforestation in the cocoa sector, as well as to implementing key principles and strategies that underpin socially and environmentally sustainable cocoa production.
The collective aim is to end deforestation, restore forest areas and create better lives for farmers and their communities in these cocoa-producing countries, with a particular focus on women and youth. GSUSA is committed to providing cookie customers with the highest-quality products available.
We understand that customers have questions about the foods they choose to eat, and GSUSA works alongside its trusted bakers to develop recipes using ingredients that will produce the best-tasting and highest-quality cookies. Girl Scouts recognizes that many people have concerns about GMO ingredients, and we monitor member and consumer opinion on this matter while simultaneously addressing industry trends; scientific trends; and, of course, consumer preference.
It is important to note that there is worldwide scientific support for the safety of currently commercialized ingredients derived from GMO agricultural crops. Recycling is community dependent. Girl Scout Cookie packages may or may not be accepted by your local recycling service depending on the types of materials it processes.
Several Girl Scout Cookie varieties are produced in soft pack packaging only, without a carton. The film overwrap is similar to the protective wrapping found inside the boxes of all cookie varieties and is recyclable in certain markets. While the shift to film overwrap has eliminated thousands of pounds of paperboard from the waste stream and the reduction in packaging weight has saved thousands of gallons of diesel fuel, the material may not be accepted by some local recycling services.
The box packaging for many of our cookies is made from paper and is recyclable. We continue to work with our bakers to evaluate ways to maximize the recyclability of the package, while maintaining freshness and shelf life.
Although parents and Girl Scout adults may assist, girls make the sale, set learning and sales goals, learn to think like entrepreneurs, and gain five essential skills that are part of the program.
Participation in the Girl Scout Cookie Program is voluntary and requires written permission from a parent or guardian. The experience helps girls learn essential life skills while powering amazing troop experiences for girls year-round.
We caution against purchasing Girl Scout Cookies for sale online at auction, community list sites, or sites such as eBay and Amazon, because GSUSA, your local Girl Scout council, and our licensed cookie bakers cannot guarantee the freshness or integrity of these cookies.
In many instances, these cookies are expired or are using Girl Scout intellectual property without our authorization. Each Girl Scout council determines its precise method of helping Girl Scouts sell cookies to customers. Cookies can generally be purchased via the following means, or some combination thereof:.
Girl Scout councils provide participating girls with an order card and, for some, access to a mobile app to collect orders from potential customers. Girls turn in their order cards, the council orders the cookies, and then girls go back to the customer to deliver the cookies a few weeks later. Direct sale. Participating Girl Scouts sell cookies directly to customers, bypassing the order-card process.
Booth sales. Participating girls sell cookies at booths authorized by councils and set up inside and outside various retail establishments. To find a cookie booth near you or learn when cookies go on sale, simply enter your zip code in the Find Cookies! The safety, health, and wellbeing of our girls and volunteers is and must be our priority, and we are encouraging all Girl Scout councils to comply with local and federal social distancing guidance during the COVID pandemic.
Online and mobile sales. Many councils participate in the Digital Cookie platform, and more councils join every year! To check if your council participates, visit Digital Cookie. Through Digital Cookie, girls can sell online and through mobile devices.
Many girls enjoy marketing their online cookie business by inviting customers, via an email or social media link, to visit their personalized cookie websites. Other girls take in-person orders using a mobile app designed specifically for Girl Scouts. The safety, health, and wellbeing of our girls and volunteers is and must be our first priority, and we are encouraging all Girl Scouts to comply with local and federal social distancing guidance during the COVID pandemic.
Depending on their age, Girl Scouts must be accompanied or supervised by an adult when selling and delivering Girl Scout Cookies or use the buddy system when selling and delivering door-to-door. Adults must always be present during cookie booth sales. To ensure freshness, Girl Scouts only sell cookies produced for the current season. Therefore, if a council or troop has cookies left at the end of the sale, GSUSA encourages it to work with local food pantries and other charitable organizations to distribute cookies as a special treat for people seeking food relief services.
GSUSA works with our licensed bakers to ensure that they too have an annual plan for responsibly managing leftover cookie inventory. The Girl Scout Cookie Program has never been about individual sales results but rather the program outcomes, through which girls learn important entrepreneurial and life skills and invest their earnings in powering troop activities year-round. There are many impressive cookie bosses throughout the United States, and the Girl Scout Movement will continue to recognize those girls as top sellers.
The program strives to offer girls important experiences in entrepreneurship, business, and finance from a young age, as well as provide girls and Girl Scout councils with the funding necessary for a variety of activities and programs throughout the troop year.
Our councils, which handle their own sales tracking, may continue to track their top sellers locally to showcase the skills girls learn and the incredible ways in which girls are investing their cookie earnings to create positive change in their communities.
The net proceeds from Girl Scout Cookie sales stay local with the originating council and troop to fund activities for girls year-round as well as impactful girl-led community projects. Each council determines its own revenue structure depending on how much it costs the council to buy cookies, the local retail price to sell cookies, and the amount of revenue shared with participating troops.
Cookie program revenue is a critical source of funding for Girl Scout councils to deliver essential programming to troops and is often what makes it possible to reach girls in underserved areas and maintain camps and properties. Additionally, Girl Scout troops can pool their proceeds to pay for necessary supplies, activities, and group travel.
Girl Scouts may not earn proceeds as individuals. However, Girl Scout councils offer a wide variety of recognition items, program- and store-related credits, and travel experiences that girls are eligible to earn individually based on their sales. All Girl Scout Cookie sale proceeds stay local. GSUSA approves all marketing and sales materials developed by the bakers.
GSUSA also provides councils with coordination and training for media activities, safety standards for girls and volunteers, a world-renowned girl leadership program, and support during cookie season. If you buy Girl Scout Cookies and take the cookies home to consume them , you've purchased a product at a fair market value. For this reason, Girl Scout Cookies used in this way are not tax-deductible. Many Girl Scouts ask customers to pay for one or more packages of cookies for use in community projects or as part of a council-approved Gift of Caring or Cookie Share program.
The Cookie Activity pin had one set of requirements for all grade levels. To provide a well-rounded programmatic experience that differentiates activities by grade level and is set apart from the Cookie Business badge requirements, we decided to take the learning to the family level, where girls are already implementing many parts of their cookie program experience.
Girls often prepare for the cookie program through their troop by earning Financial Literacy and Cookie Business badges as they gain five skills: goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills, and business ethics.
We recognize that girls often practice these skills at home, too, as they sell Girl Scout Cookies with support from their families. This new pin will encourage families to be there for their girls as they develop the five skills and learn to think like entrepreneurs. Reimagining the Cookie Activity pin gives us the opportunity to refresh and modernize the design and bring the image of our famous Girl Scout Cookies to the front of the uniform.
The new pin also eliminates the need to search online for a missing pin from a particular year. This new pin collection will be evergreen, meaning Girl Scout shops will have the supplies on hand year round.
The design changes as girls progress through the program rather than the design changing each year. Council Finder. Use this finder to connect with your local Girl Scout council.
Cookies FAQ. Buying Girl Scout Cookies. When do Girl Scout Cookies go on sale and how do I find them? How is the Girl Scout Cookie Program valuable to girls?
When you buy Girl Scout Cookies, you power amazing experiences and life-changing opportunities for girls' year-round—from awesome trips to community projects to outdoor adventures.
The more cookies you buy, the more you help Girl Scouts build essential skills as they begin to think like entrepreneurs and learn to take the lead, both now and in the future. Girls gain these skills from working with others, setting goals, and connecting with you, the cookie customer! It's about the experience of running her very own cookie business, gaining five essential skills goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills, and business ethics as she learns to think like an entrepreneur.
This study also revealed that girls want more opportunity to practice and develop entrepreneurial skills and the Girl Scout Cookie program is just the right place to do learn and grow. Can I buy Girl Scout Cookies online? Are Girl Scout Cookies shipped? To find out if the Digital Cookie platform is available in your area, visit Digital Cookie.
Why are Girl Scout Cookies available only for a short time? The Girl Scout Cookie Program is the largest girl-led entrepreneurship program in the world, but it is just one part of the Girl Scout Leadership Experience. Girl Scouts participate in varied activities throughout the year and work on many projects. The cookie program is just one of those activities. And because only registered Girl Scouts may sell Girl Scout Cookies , their market availability is normally limited to the six- to eight-week period when girls are engaged in the program through their local council.
General Product Information. Which Girl Scout Cookies are currently available? There are many different kinds of Girl Scout Cookies! You can learn about the cookies on the Meet the Cookies page of our website. Availability varies depending on the local area, so contact your local Girl Scout council to find out which varieties are available near you.
What if I'm not satisfied with my Girl Scout Cookies? Contact the cookie baker if, for any reason, you aren't satisfied with a package of Girl Scout Cookies. How can I be sure my Girl Scout Cookies were baked for the current season? This date corresponds with the end of each cookie season.
Accordingly, Girl Scout Cookies with a date have been baked for the — season. How much is a package of Girl Scout Cookies? Why do prices vary in different regions? Each of the Girl Scout councils sets its own price based on its needs and knowledge of the local market. Today's prices reflect both the current cost of cookies and the realities of providing Girl Scout programming in an ever-changing economic environment. Remember—the proceeds stay with your local council and troop to power amazing experiences for girls.
To find out when Girl Scouts are selling in your area, use the Find Cookies! Who bakes Girl Scout Cookies? How many cookies are in a package of Girl Scout Cookies, and how big are they? Girl Scout Cookies are sold by weight, not by size or number. The number and size of cookies vary by variety and by baker. This information is featured on every package. You can learn more about the cookies on the Meet the Cookies page of our website.
A cookie may be called Trefoils when baked by one baker and Shortbread when baked by the other. The two cookies look and taste similar, but the name of the cookie and the recipe may be different. Even if Girl Scout Cookie names are the same, the recipes may differ. Who selects Girl Scout Cookie varieties? What are the best-selling Girl Scout Cookies?
Where can I find recipes that use Girl Scout Cookies? Check out our Cookie Recipes page. You can also visit Pinterest to find and share recipes. Who are the girls on the Girl Scout Cookie packages? All of the girls pictured on the packages are registered Girl Scouts or Girl Scout alums. Every package shows Girl Scouts in action participating in Girl Scout program activities. Why do my Girl Scout Cookie nutrition labels look different? Should people with diabetes buy or consume Girl Scout Cookies?
Do Girl Scout Cookies contribute to childhood obesity? Each Girl Scout council chooses a licensed baker, either ABC Bakers or Little Brownie Bakers to supply them with cookies so availability varies depending on the local area.
Contact your local Girl Scout council to find out if Toast-yay! How can I purchase the new cookie Toast-Yay! TM cookie? Will Girl Scouts sell these cookies in-person? The safety and security of our Girl Scouts is our top priority, and we will continue to work with our Girl Scout councils to monitor the pandemic in accordance with guidelines from the CDC. Why are some Girl Scout Cookie varieties priced differently from other ones? Product Ingredients. How do I find out the ingredients, nutritional value, and allergen information for Girl Scout Cookies?
Why was it revised? All packaged foods in the U. Has the manufacturing process for any of the cookies changed? All Girl Scout Cookies are baked in state-of-the-art facilities, and customers can be assured that required safety protocols are adhered to in order to prevent allergen cross-contact. Both bakers can confirm that customers will be buying the same Girl Scout Cookies they know and love—and purchase year after year—with no changes to the manufacturing process.
What does this mean for Girl Scout Cookie customers who have food allergies? Our bakers continue to list all allergens on their Girl Scout Cookie packaging labels.
Consumers should always review the ingredient statement for their individual allergies or dietary restrictions for the most up-to-date information on the ingredients contained in the product in that package. If you have concerns as to whether a product is right for you, please check with your healthcare provider. Are all Girl Scout Cookies halal certified? Starting with the season, all Girl Scout Cookies are halal certified. Why did Girl Scouts and the bakers go through the process of obtaining halal certification?
The Girl Scout program serves girls from all walks of life across every zip code in the U. Are all Girl Scout Cookies kosher? Did anything change in Girl Scout Cookies for them to be halal certified?
They are the same delicious cookies that you know and love—obtaining this certification did not require changes to any of the ingredients, recipes or baking processes. There are 12 boxes of Girl Scout cookies in each case. There are 12 boxes of Girl Scout cookies, of any type, in a case. It depends on the Girl Scout council. The councils determine the price of the cookies for their council.
A case of Girl Scout cookies contains 12 boxes. There are approximately million boxes of Girl Scout cookies sold each year. Each case of Girl Scout cookies contains 12 boxes so: 2 x 12 x 3. Since sales are over million boxes per year, lots of people buy Girl Scout cookies. Since Girl Scout cookies are packaged and sold within a short time, they do not mark the boxes.
About the only way to be sure the cookies are fresh is to buy them directly from a Girl Scout or a Girl Scout Council. Another way would be to compare the box with current boxes because the boxes change every few years. Also, some new kinds come out every year or two, so you could check to make sure that kind of cookie is being sold during the current year.
If not, you would know the cookies are old. It depends on the kind of cookie. Some cookie boxes are filled by weight, not number, so you will see an "approximate number of cookies" listed on those boxes. Plus, the amount of cookies per box can change each year, to help keep the price from rising. Several types of Girl Scout cookies have only 15 cookies per box making it an approximate total of cookies per case.
Girl Scout cookies were not "founded". Each Girl Scout council is allowed a number of boxes of Girl Scout cookies that they can use to give away. Some years each troop has received a box of the "new" cookie for the girls to sample. Also, if you attend a council meeting or event, sometimes the cookie companies will have a booth where they give away cookies.
After the cookie sale is over, sometimes there are damaged boxes where the cookies are still safe to eat or boxes that were ordered as extras in case of a mistake and the council staff might be allowed to either sell or give these away. Since each Girl Scout council controls their cookie sale, and there are two different cookie companies, this may be difficult to determine. In my experience, boxes was the average for our area.
The website for Girl Scout cookies is below. Currently , Girl Scout cookies can not be sold online. If someone wants to purchase Girl Scout cookies, they can use the Girl Scout Cookie Finder see Related Links to contact the local Girl Scout council for information about the cookie sale.
Girl Scout cookies are only manufactured and sold at certain times of the year. Most Girl Scout council cookie sales are conducted during the months of January through April. However, there are a few councils that start sales a little earlier.
If you need Girl Scout cookies at other times of the year, you can try contacting your local Girl Scout council office. Sometimes they keep extra cookies for special events or in case there is a problem with someone's cookies or order. Roughly million boxes of Girl Scout cookies are sold each year. Since the cookies are sold by weight, it is hard to state a definite number of cookies.
Looking at the information about serving size and number of cookies per box, the number of cookies range from 14 to 40 per box. So, take 20 cookies per box times million, you get an estimate of 4 billion Girl Scout cookies baked during the Girl Scout cookie season. Log in. Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. Girl Scout Cookies. Study now. See Answer. Best Answer. There are 12 boxes in each case of Girl Scout cookies. Study guides.
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