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Will Wal-Mart's New Cookies Hurt the Girl Scouts?
Over the years, world's biggest retailer Wal-Mart has been the source of heated scrutiny for many organizations, from labor unions to environmental groups. The grocery giant's latest purported victim? The Girl Scouts.
Teen Scouts Learn to Fight Terrorists and Illegal Immigrants
When I was a Girl Scout, we spent most of our time working on badges, preparing for camping trips, or selling delicious cookies. Well you can forget all that. Today's girls (and boys) involved in the Explorers program, an affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America, learn how to combat terrorists, illegal immigrants, and border violence.
Girl Scouts Deal With Declining Sales, Counterfeit Cash
Despite attempts to maintain high profits through downsizing cookie boxes, the Girl Scouts of America are not immune to the poor economy. MSNBC reports a dramatic decline in cookie sales with some troops selling 35 percent less cookies than they did last year. Although the institution lowered its cookie-selling goal in anticipation of the recession, Girl Scouts is nowhere near its goal.
Facing Increased Costs, Girl Scouts Downsize Cookie Boxes
It's always seemed a little too effortless to finish off a box of Girl Scout cookies, but if they are a little easier to dust off this year, it's not just in your head. To offset the cost increases of cookie ingredients, Girl Scouts of the USA made the decision to shrink its cookie boxes by a centimeter, package fewer cookies into boxes of Thin Mints, Do-si-dos, and Tagalongs, and reduce the size of its Lemon Chalet Crèmes. According to the organization, the cost of flour rose by 30 percent, assorted cooking oils by 40 percent, and cocoa by at least 20 percent.
Girl Scout Cookies: On Their Way Out?
Every year girls of many ages partake in a time-honored tradition: Girl Scout cookie sales. But this year, the joy that Girl Scout cookie season brings may be, well, a little bittersweet.
In the last half a decade, the Girl Scouts of the USA has faced membership decline, and the organization has brought in a consulting team for an image overhaul.
Abigail Breslin: Top Role Model for Lil Girls
If you've seen Little Miss Sunshine, you'll understand my obsession with the positively charming Abigail Breslin.
The extraordinarily talented actress has mad acting skills that are sure to take her far in Tinseltown. More importantly, she seems to have a good head on her small shoulders.
Happy Birthday YumSugar!
Today March 12, is YumSugar's birthday, so I want to ask everyone to wish her a warm, welcoming, wonderful Happy Birthday! On today's date 113 years ago, a certain Mr. Joseph A. Biedenham bottled the first bottle ever of Coca-Cola Classic.
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Yummy Link: Girl Scout Samoa Cheese Tart
If you ordered too many boxes of Girl Scout cookies, then use them to make a tart. This Girl Scout samoa cheese tart uses the cookies and (my fav) dulce de leche. It looks to die for!
Girl Scouts Join 100-Calorie Pack Frenzy
Last year we saw Girl Scout Cookies go trans-fat free and this year they're taking a step even further to sell to us calorie-conscious folks. Meet Cinna-Spins 100-Calorie Packs. Yes that is right, like many major brands, the Girl Scouts of America are trying to lure us to buy more cookies (as if we needed convincing).
Can't Wait For Girl Scout Cookies? Try Girl Scout Ice Cream
Those of you who love Girl Scout Cookies will be happy to know that many of your local Girl Scout troops are taking pre-orders now. The cookies are traditionally sold in early March, but for those of you that can't wait, I spied the seasonal Dryer's/Edy's Girl Scout cookie ice creams at my local Safeway. For a few months only, the ice cream giant produces three flavors of ice cream infused with Girl Scout cookies.
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