Find a Girl Scout Cookie Booth in Bethesda

They don’t exactly help our New Year’s resolution to lose weight, but Thin Mints, Samoas and other tasty cookies are now on sale.

Girl Scouts will be out in force this weekend in the Washington, D.C., area selling their cookies. Look for Scouts selling their goods at Safeway stores in Bethesda and Bowie, Giant and Walmart stores in Bowie, and the Kmart in Edgewater, along with venues in Silver Spring, Upper Marlboro and elsewhere in the region.

The Girl Scouts have a handy “cookie locator” you can use to find a cookie booth near you.

If you’re in the Central Maryland region, use this cookie locator. For the rest of the region, including Annapolis, you have to wait until September for cookie booth sales, but you can drive to a nearby town or order online.

Find information on downloading the Girl Scout Cookie Finder App. Or a girl you know can invite you to buy your cookies online with the Digital Cookie platform, now in its second year.

This year, you’ll likely find seven cookie varieties, including Thin Mints, Samoas, Do-Si-Dos, Tagalongs, Trefoils, Savannah Smiles and Rah Rah Raisins, at a cost of $4 a box.

The top sellers are (percentage of total 2011–12 sales):

• Thin Mints (25 percent)
• Samoas/Caramel deLites (19 percent)
• Peanut Butter Patties/Tagalongs (13 percent)
• Peanut Butter Sandwich/Do-si-dos (11 percent)
• Shortbread/Trefoils (9 percent)

You can make some yummy desserts using Girl Scout cookies; find the recipes here.

IMAGE courtesy of Girl Scouts of the Nation’s Capital