Cookie Dietary Facts

Trans Fats

We at Girl Scouts are concerned about trans fats and are working diligently with our bakers to eliminate trans fats from all Girl Scout cookies. This process takes time, and, for now, we offer a choice of seven healthier varieties.

Girl Scout leaders are parents, too, and we care about this issue personally as well as professionally. As we move forward in eliminating trans fats, we ask for continued support of the Girl Scout cookie program, which not only funds essential services for Girl Scout troops, groups and 2.7 million individual girls but provides girls with hands-on experience in many life skills that they will need and use throughout their lives including, team work, goal-setting money management, oral presentation skills and customer service.

In addition to developing and strengthening skills, the cookie program revenue helps supply essential services to troops, groups and individual girls, such as providing program resources and communication support, training adult volunteers and conducting special events.

Dietary Exchanges

The following dietary exchanges were created by a registered dietician and certified Diabetes Educator on staff at the Diabetes Treatment Center of Chippenham Medical Center in Richmond, VA. (Reprinted from http://www.girlscoutcookiesabc.com/cookies.asp.)

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