If you missed Girl Scout
cookie sales this year, the manufacturer, Wicked Cool Toys has partnered with Girl Scouts to develop a toy oven that allows aspiring home bakers to bake their favorite peanut butter Girl Scout cookies at home.
Even though us not participating in
the cookie sale this year won't make big news, I think each of us combined can make a difference!
Not exact matches
But in recent
years, the organization has worked to bring its popular
cookie sales online, with help from Dell and Visa.
Who better to go to for fun and helpful
sales advice than the Scouts» top
cookie seller, Katie Francis, a 13 -
year - old
sales wunderkind whose feat of selling 22,200 boxes of
cookies this
year beat her own world record?
Over 1 million Girl Scouts participate in the
cookie program each
year, and all of the net revenue from
cookie sales — 100 percent of it — stays within a Girl Scout council's local area to benefit girls and their council.
This
year the Girl Scouts of America is allowing troops to sell
cookies online via a personal page in addition to door to door and booth
sales.
For more than 100
years, Girl Scouts and their enthusiastic supporters have helped ensure the success of the iconic annual
cookie sale — and they've had fun, developed valuable life skills, and made their communities a better place every step of the way.
I decided to ask him how the gingerbread
cookie sales were going this
year, and I was not shocked to learn hundreds had been purchased already this Christmas season.
I have made these
cookies 5 - 10 times in the past
year for my vegan kiddo and to provide a vegan option at bake
sales.
Whether you sold the different Girl Scout
cookies as a child, or have been buying the different varieties of Girl Scout
cookies for
years, the Girl Scout
cookie varieties are hot commodities when they're available for
sale.
I only buy Thin Mints once a
year; the rest of the
year I buy Keebler Grasshopper
cookies when they go on
sale.
To its credit, my son's elementary school has made some positive changes in recent
years, including stopping the
sale of
cookies and brownies at morning recess; banning vending machines in student access areas; and restricting bake
sales to once a month or less.