There is no safe place to hide Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies in our house. I find them to be the most appetizing when they are kept in the freezer, but even trying to stash them in the back of the cupboard doesn't keep them safe for long. It's just way too easy to open a box and devour half a sleeve (or more) in one sitting with some cold milk. How can you not buy these things from family, neighbors, and co-workers? You are helping a good cause after all....
While I enjoy lots of other kinds of cookies too, there is something about Thin Mints that require consumption as quickly as possible. Oreos can hang out in the cupboard for weeks before they are slowly consumed. I can walk right by a sale on Nutter Butters. Even the other Girl Scout varieties aren't nearly as much of a test of will power.
The only way I can keep Thin Mints around is to designate them as a summertime treat by burying them in the freezer downstairs and ignoring them (usually successfully) until July or August when it's 90 degrees outside. After finishing cutting the lawn on a day like that, there's nothing better than a sleeve of Thin Mints with milk. The promise of that special treat is the only thing I've found that lets those things survive more than a few days.
Snack time!
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