It’s the most wonderful time of the year for cookie lovers.

Girl Scout Cookies have been delivered to Vicksburg and will be sold at Kroger starting at 4 p.m. Friday. A booth will be set up at Kroger Friday through Sunday and at Wal-Mart on Saturday and Sunday.

“They will sell for the next four weekends,” Janis Koestler, service unit cookie chair, said.

Cookies in Warren County are $4 a box.

“We are one of the lowest price sites in the country,” Koestler said.

The eight Girl Scout Troops in Warren County typically sell 20,000 boxes of cookies a year. Pre-orders started in January and cookies will be available for purchase until Sunday, March 13. The money raised helps the organization.

“The troops do earn money that helps pay for their activities,” Koestler said.

One way to find Girl Scout Cookies is to use the free app Cookie Locator, which is available for Android and iPhone.

Girl Scout Cookies available for purchase are Savannah Smiles, a lemon cookie; Samoa- a chocolate coconut cookie; Thin Mints, a vegan mint chocolate cookie; Do-si-dos, peanut butter in the middle of two oatmeal cookies; Trefoils, a shortbread cookie; Rah-Rah Raisins, an oatmeal cookie with raisins and yogurt bits; and Tagalongs, a peanut butter chocolate cookie.

Koestler said Thin Mints and Samoas are typically the best sellers. She then mentioned multiple different recipes could be found online for making a new treat out of an old cookie.

“Thin Mints especially freeze well,” Koestler said.

A pilot cookie the scouts are offering for the second year in a row is called Toffee-tastic, a shortbread cookie with toffee bits. The $5 gluten-free cookie is offered on a very limited basis and has to be ordered through digital cookies.

“You have to ask a Girl Scout about ordering digital cookies,” Koestler said.

If this cookie’s sales are good enough, it could be brought on as a regular and be made available in bigger quantities in the years to come.

“Most people really like it,” Koestler said. “To me they’re better when they’re stale because it’s a hard cookie but after it sits out after an hour its soft.”

The troop leaders loading cookies Tuesday weren’t too concerned about imitation cookies impacting their sales.

“I think people who want to buy cookies from girls are going to buy cookies from girls,” Koestler said. “I love a Thin Mint, but I don’t buy Thin Mints because it’s a Thin Mint cookie, I buy it because it helps Girl Scouts.”

Koestler said the girls learn business ethics, money management, goal setting, decision making and people skills through selling cookies.

Being a Girl Scout is more than just selling cookies though. She said the girls learn leadership and social skills.

“One thing I love about Girl Scouts is that you get to try everything. There is nothing that you can not try, and you don’t limit yourself,” Koestler said. “You’re not just one thing, and I think that’s important to the development of kids and well-rounded grown ups.”