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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Sun Aug 23, 2020, 06:13 PM Aug 2020

Alternatives to Girl Scout Cookies

Eat Girl Scout Cookies Year-Round With These Grocery Store Alternatives

So what are you supposed to do during the dreaded GS Cookie off-season? Easy: scan the supermarket. These twelve off-brand replacements for each of the cookies on the current Girl Scout Cookie roster are simpler to find than you think, and actually taste close to the originals.

Thin Mints
Grocery store alternative: Keebler Grasshoppers

Samoas/Caramel deLites
Grocery store alternative: Keebler Coconut Dreams

Lemonades
Grocery store alternative: Pepperidge Farm Lemon

Do-si-dos/Peanut Butter Sandwich
Grocery store alternative: Nutter Butter

Cranberry Citrus Crisps
Grocery store alternative: Trader Joe’s Cranberry Orange Cookies with White Chocolate Chips
(Several grocery chains have a house spin on cranberry orange cookies)

Savannah Smiles
Grocery store alternative: La Panzanella Dolcetini
(If you can compromise your artistic vision, there are much cheaper frosted lemon cookies)

Tagalongs/Peanut Butter Patties
Grocery store alternative: Keebler JIF Peanut Butter Cookies

Rah-Rah Raisins
Grocery store alternative: Kashi Oatmeal Raisin Flax

Thanks-A-Lot
Grocery store alternative: Keebler Fudge Shoppe Stripes

Trefoils/Shortbread
Grocery store alternative: Nabisco Lorna Doone

Toffee-Tastic
Grocery store alternative: Walkers Gluten-Free Shortbread

Trios
Grocery store alternative: Pamela’s Products Peanut Butter Cookies

https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/girl-scout-cookie-equivalents-grocery-store-alternatives-to-thin-mints-samoas-tagalongs
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Alternatives to Girl Scout Cookies (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Aug 2020 OP
Kroger Red Velvet cake is the best substitute I have found House of Roberts Aug 2020 #1
The only equivalent alternative to GS cookies is crack cocaine and maybe heroin, TristanIsolde Aug 2020 #2
LOL! fleur-de-lisa Aug 2020 #3
ever read the ingredients label on their "product"? nt msongs Aug 2020 #4
And all this time, I thought the cute little girls were baking these cookies. Chainfire Aug 2020 #5
I like the Kroger house brand of mint cookies Alliepoo Aug 2020 #6
They're not made out of real Girl Scouts Wolf Frankula Aug 2020 #7
i think i'll just stick to my regular dweller Aug 2020 #8
The dead wasps make them delicious. Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2020 #11
If you're ever in Seattle... jmowreader Aug 2020 #9
I've had the Keebler Coconut Dreams and they're really good! Rhiannon12866 Aug 2020 #10
Boy Scout cookies whistler162 Aug 2020 #12

Alliepoo

(2,791 posts)
6. I like the Kroger house brand of mint cookies
Sun Aug 23, 2020, 07:32 PM
Aug 2020

Better than the Keebler Grasshoppers. And their store brand pb sandwich cookie is better than nutter butters!! And when we’re lucky enough to vacation in FL- Publix house brand mint cookie is deeelish! I buy all of the packages on the shelf to bring home with us!!

jmowreader

(52,996 posts)
9. If you're ever in Seattle...
Sun Aug 23, 2020, 11:49 PM
Aug 2020

I went to the Seattle area the last week in July to buy my kitchen floor, because no one in my area had what I wanted and this is not something you order online - the shipping would kill ya. So I stopped in at Bartell Drugs like I always do, and they had a whole shelf of Girl Scout cookies. Whether the manager has a kid in Girl Scouts or the chain bought several truckloads of GS cookies for resale I do not know, but they were selling cookies in the store. (And before you ask: no, there was no weed store in the vicinity.)

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