Girl Scouts Are Now Taking Cookie Orders: What's Your Pleasure?

Thin Mints or Do-Si-Dos? Samoas or Tagalongs? 

Girl Scouts will begin taking your orders starting today, Friday, Jan. 6, with orders to be delivered Feb. 16 thorugh Feb. 23. 

Price per box will be $4, with the girls receiving 70 cents to 80 cents for every box of cookies sold. They can use the money toward camp registrations, membership dues, program costs and Girl Scout merchandise. 

Cookie options for the North Hills area include the classics: the shortbread Trefoils, the oatmeal and peanut butter Do-Si-Dos, the vanilla-caramel-coconut-chocolate Samoas, peppermint and chocolate Thin Mints, and the peanut butter-covered-in-chocolate Tagalongs. 

Other options are a cranberry-and-white-fudge chip Thank U Berry Munch, a milk caramel Dulce de Leche and this year's new offering, a lemon wedge cookie called the Savannah Smile.

They are baked exclusively for the Girl Scouts by ABC Bakers / Interbake Foods LLC, a Richmond, VA-based manufacturer, and Little Brownie Bakers. Find a listing of ingredients and nutrient information for each of the cookies here.

Among those knocking on doors will be 10-year old Kalynn Reese, who will hit Charter Wood Drive this weekend, her mother Lannette Reese said. 

The cookies "are the biggest seller for her," Reese said. 

Kalynn is part of Troop No. 50626, a tight-knit group of five girls who have been together since the first grade. 

Seven-year-old Jamie Neely will be visiting the , where she will be seeking orders, said her mother, Chloe Neely. 

Chloe Neely is an 02 troop leader, which is similar to an assistant leader, for her daughter's Brownie Troop No. 5130.

"We're very excited about the cookie sales this year," Neely said. "It's our 100th anniversary (for the Girl Scouts) and it's a very big year for us." 

The troop has 20 members, each with the goal of selling 50 boxes or more. Most are students at , Neely said. 

Monica Anderson's two daughters, 11-year-old Lonna of Troop No. 50833 and 8-year-old Eden of Brownie Troop No. 5130, will be working Richland Avenue in West View, at UPMC Presbyterian in Oakland — where their father works — and relatives in Mercer County. 

"We canvas probably a bigger area than the average person," she said, adding that her older daughter's troop has a goal of 120 boxes each. 

On average, her daughters tend to sell about 300 boxes of cookies each year, she said. 

The money raised is used toward a June camping trip and various activities throughout the year, she said. The older girls, for example, are talking about a trip together at the end of the year and the younger girls would like to do an overnight at the Pittsburgh Zoo, Anderson said. 

Dates and locations for booth sales for the area are to be set next week. Stay tuned to Patch to find out where you can get your cookie fix. 

Are you a troop leader or the parent of a Girl Scout selling cookies? Let Patch readers know in the comments section below what streets you'll be knocking on and/or how to get in touch with you to put in their order! 

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