Surviving Girl Scout Cookie Season

Rating the Girl Scout Cookies continued...

1. *Reduced Fat Daisy Go Rounds (1 100-calorie pack; 24 grams).

*Lowest in fat; Lowest in saturated fat; Lowest in calories

     Fat grams: 2

     Saturated fat grams: 1

     Calories:100

     Sugar grams: 8

     Total carbohydrate grams:19

     Fiber grams: less than 1

     First 4 ingredients: enriched flour, sugar, palm oil, and high fructose corn syrup      

 2. *Shortbread (4 cookies; 26 grams)

*Lowest in sugar; second-lowest in fat

     Fat grams: 4.5

     Saturated fat grams: 2

     Calories: 120

     Sugar grams: 4

     Total carbohydrate grams: 19

     Fiber grams: less than 1

     First 3 ingredients: enriched flour, sugar, and palm oil; cookies contain less that 2% of the remaining ingredients 

3. Do-si-dos (2 cookies; 24 grams)

     Fat grams: 5

     Saturated fat grams: 1.5

     Calories: 110

     Sugar grams: 7

     Total carbohydrate grams: 16

     Fiber grams: less than 1

     First 4 ingredients: enriched flour, sugar, whole grain oats, soybean and palm oils      

     4. Thank U Berry Munch (2 cookies; 25 grams)

     Fat grams: 5

     Saturated fat grams: 2

     Calories: 120

     Sugar grams: 7

     Total carbohydrate grams: 18

     Fiber grams: less than 1

     First 4 ingredients: enriched flour, sugar, vegetable oil (soybean, palm, and palm kernel oil), sweetened dried cranberries      

5. *Peanut Butter Sandwich (3 cookies, 35 grams)

     * Tied with Lemon Chalet for highest in carbohydrate grams

     Fat grams: 6

     Saturated fat grams: 2.5

     Calories: 160

     Sugar grams: 8

     Total carbohydrate grams: 26

     Fiber grams: less than 1

     First 4 ingredients: enriched flour, sugar, peanuts, oats      

6. Thanks-A-Lot (2 cookies, 31 grams)

     Fat grams: 6

     Saturated fat grams: 3.5

     Calories:150

     Sugar grams: 9

     Total carbohydrate grams: 22

     Fiber grams: less than 1

     First 4 ingredients: enriched flour, sugar, vegetable shortening; high fructose corn syrup      

7. Trefoils (5 cookies, 33 grams)

     Fat grams = 8

     Saturated fat grams = 2.5

     Calories = 160

     Sugar grams = 7

     Total carbohydrate grams = 22

     Fiber grams = less than 1

     First 4 ingredients: enriched flour, soybean and palm oils, sugar, brown sugar      

8. *Lemon Chalet Cremes (2 cookies; 32 grams)

     * Highest in calories; Tied for highest in sugar with Caramel deLites; Tied with Peanut Butter Sandwiches for highest in carbohydrates

     Fat grams: 7

     Saturated fat grams: 2.5

     Calories: 170

     Sugar grams: 13

     Total carbohydrate grams: 26

     Fiber grams: <1 gram

First 4 ingredients: enriched flour, sugar, soybean and palm oils, dextrose

9. Lemonades (2 cookies, 31 grams)

     Fat grams: 7

     Saturated fat grams: 4

     Calories: 150

     Sugar grams: 9

     Total carbohydrate grams: 22

     Fiber grams: 0

     First 4 ingredients: enriched flour, sugar, vegetable shortening, cornstarch      

10. Thin Mints from Little Brownie Bakers (4 cookies, 32 grams)

     Fat grams: 8

     Saturated fat grams: 5

     Calories: 160

     Sugar grams: 10

     Total carbohydrate grams: 22

     Fiber grams: less than 1 gram

     First 4 ingredients: enriched flour, sugar, vegetable oil (partially hydrogenated palm kernel and/or cottonseed oil, palm oil), cocoa