100th Anniversary Girl Scout Cookie Sale begins this weekend
By Glynis Crawford Smith
The Highlander
The annual Girl Scout Cookie Sale kicks off in Marble Falls this weekend and, weather permitting, two central outdoor sales points will be offered by Wildflower Trails Service Unit 605.
Local cookie monsters can feed their need with curb service from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21, at 418 US 281, home of 1st United Bank.
On Sunday, Jan. 22, Girl Scouts will be posted at entrances to the Marble Falls Walmart Supercenter, 2700 US 281.
Even if weather curtails the weekend events, scouts will be selling individually around the area in coming weeks, spreading cooking joy while improving their own communication and marketing skills and earning the money for camp experiences and service projects. A delivery text order can even be placed to 512-586-1534.
This is the 100th anniversary of Girl Scout Cookie Sales and anyone keeping up with the tradition knows choices have been expanding. This year, in addition to top sellers Thin Mints and Caramel deLites, the local offering of Thanks-A-Lot, Lemonades, Shortbread, and Peanut Butter Patties includes the new Girl Scout S'mores.
The new cookie is touted as capturing “the very essence of Girl Scouting.” The first recorded s’mores recipe appeared in “Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts,” published in 1927. The classic campfire snack has been concocted to capture the flavor of the fireside favorite, without the sticky mess.
Many recipes have changed along with the health, cultural and environmental awareness of Girl Scouts.
No artificial preservatives or colors are used. They are made with pure vegetable shortening, have a trans fat value of zero, contain no partially hydrogenated oils and all are kosher. People following diabetic diets will find dietary exchange rates provided. Trios are gluten free and Thin Mints, Thanks-A-Lot, Lemonades and Peanut Butter Patties Girl Scout Cookies are vegan.
By eliminating the box for Thanks-A-Lot, Girl Scout S'mores, and Lemonades, Girl Scouts of the USA and ABC Bakers are taking hundreds of tons of paperboard out of the waste stream annually. That’s at least enough paperboard to fill 14 garbage trucks and yields energy savings equivalent to 30,000 gallons of gasoline.”
The personal additives are the character builders of scouting: Spreading a good attitude. Working to help people in need. Taking steps to be careful with the planet. The Girl Scout Cookie sale is teaching girls how to take control of situations and serve as a leader for change. They’re learning The 5 Skills – goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills and business ethics. These are skills they can carry with them for a lifetime of success.
