All of the proceeds from a local council's GirlScoutcookie activities remain in the area where the cookies are sold. adults should be around to supervise the activities. The revenue is used to benefit the girls. Some of the money remains in the Girl Scout troop/group treasury.
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Brownie, Junior, Cadette, and teen Scouts sell cookies in different ways – at school, over the phone, door-to-door, and at work. Adults should always be around to monitor sales. Our council strictly abides with the national policy, which states that cookie sales are not allowed over the Internet.
Girl Scout Cookies are sold every year in the month of February. Tombigbee Girl Scout Council (TGSC) cookies are priced at $3.50 a box. It is supplied by ABC Bakers, one of the three official cookie bakers nationwide. The TGSC caters to 3000 girls between 5 and 17 in West Alabama.
Girl scout cookies may contain harmful “trans fats.” These are artery-clogging and cancer-causing fats. It is formed when vegetable oils are hardened. Trans fats increase the levels of bad cholesterol and lower the level of good cholesterol in the blood stream. They could be fatal.
