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. The company felt this was the best method of dealing with increasing raw material prices. Alternatively, Girl Scouts could have used cheaper ingredients, or raised cookie prices from their current price of $3.50 per box.
This doesn't come as a surprise to me, since last year producers began rolling out shrunken products in reaction to the price of food on the rise.
I CAN DEAL WITH ROB NOT HAVING A JOB, BILLS ARE PILING UP, THINGS LOOK BAD...BUT I CAN HANDLE ALL THAT. THIS, HOWEVER, MUST BE DEALT WITH IMMEDIATELY!!!
MR. OBAMA, FIX THIS COOKIE CRISIS!!!
Who's with me? I say we march on Washington and DEMAND to be heard. DEMAND that something be done about this. There is only so much we can take, and THIS is the straw that will break the camels back!! Whats next? Oreo double stuff becomes Oreo barely stuffed??? Say it isn't so!!!
And what's the big deal with GS cookies?!?! They're nasty and way over-priced! They need to be teaching the girls to -bake- cookies at home and not beg door-to-door. hehehe
Well, maybe the punishment for the goat is to help ease costs of GS Cookies by donating its milk. The goat does its time for its crime, and the GS Cookies don't have to get shrunk!
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I hated, hated, hated being in Girl Scouts! Never liked the cookies, and every time we went on a field trip someone would barf... probably from said cookies... and that was always the high point of the excursions...
I need cookies today!!! Girl Scout, Oreos...it doesn't matter.
My daughters kitty died, and she is devastated. As a mom, I want to fix things, but know that she needs to feel her emotions and work it out on her own...that my job is to provide comfort...
My comfort= COOKIES
Snickerdoodles, 7 layer yummies, Toll House.
Ohh, I'm so sorry Jenn !! I know exactly how she feels, I lost my 5 1/2 year old dog Storm, to cancer a few weeks ago. You give your daughter a big hug & kiss from her Auntie Lauren, okay ?
But your on your own for your cookies, sorry hon. ;-D
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. The company felt this was the best method of dealing with increasing raw material prices. Alternatively, Girl Scouts could have used cheaper ingredients, or raised cookie prices from their current price of $3.50 per box.
This doesn't come as a surprise to me, since last year producers began rolling out shrunken products in reaction to the price of food on the rise.
I CAN DEAL WITH ROB NOT HAVING A JOB, BILLS ARE PILING UP, THINGS LOOK BAD...BUT I CAN HANDLE ALL THAT. THIS, HOWEVER, MUST BE DEALT WITH IMMEDIATELY!!!
MR. OBAMA, FIX THIS COOKIE CRISIS!!!