For those of you interested in purchasing GS Cookies, at this time, only Thin Mints appear to be safe. My daughter asked me a very valid questions regarding the processing equipment. She wanted to know where the Thin Mints were being made since the others either contain peanuts/nuts. At this time I am working on another project & am pressed for time to get that information to everyone, you may want to contact: Little Brownie Bakers @ 1-800-626-2228, ask the operator to direct your call. I encourage everyone to allow your daughter to sell cookies. She will receive so many benefits that are vital to her PA: communicating w/the public, courage to speak to strangers in a controlled environment, etc...these skills I feel are important to develop especially when becoming a young adult ready to care for oneself; she will need to learn to speak for herself.
I am currently working w/GSUSA to implement PA/FA Awareness for "NEW" Leaders only in the Leader Introductory Class. If you would like to support this issue, please contact Hada Reed @ [email]HReed@Girlscouts.org[/email] or her voice mail @ 1-800-478-7248 (you may also get the address by calling that #. Please state clearly that you are calling or e-mailing to support the effort to have PA/FA Awareness implemented throughout Girl Scouts.
If this is accepted, I will then try to implement training for seasoned Leaders in established mandatory classes &/or other education classes regarding food/food preparation &/or camping.
Remember this is for your daughter and future Girl Scouts whether your daughter joins or not. Girl Scouts is one of the highest recognized organizations for young girls, and the opportunity has presented itself for the taking.
Thank you for your support of this issue.
i looked up girlscout cookies on a a girlscout cookie bakery website to find out which cookies my family could order from my neice. according to the website, there were several that were not labelled as containing nuts, peanuts, or may contains. however, when i emailed the order to my sister she said that only the thin mints were safe for those with peanut allergy. i'm glad i had her double check for me because i almost ordered 10 boxes of cookies that we couldn't eat. i was a girlscout so i do enjoy buying the cookies. the website was a little misleading though, unless i read it wrong or didn't check it thorougly enough. as i recall, the friends cookies, animal cookies, caramel/choc cookies, and the lemon cremes did not have a warning attached to them for allergic consumers. i did think it was a little odd that my kids could eat so many of the cookies offered but i was thrilled. i wish we could have more than just the thin mints but, of course, i am grateful that the allergy information was available to my sister so she could pass it along to me. joey
The GS cookies come from two different bakeries - Little Brownie and ABC. My dd is selling ABC made cookies and the carmel, thin mint, friendship circles, lemon ones and animial treasures are all safe for PA/TNA. What ever web site you were looking at was correct for the ABC cookies.
It is unfortunate that the Little Brownie made cookies offer our community basically only one safe option.
i bet you are right. i had no idea there were two separate bakeries. i probably looked up the wrong one. darn the luck...i was hoping to be knee-deep in cookies in a few weeks! haha. joey
Our Canadian Girl Scout cookies are different from yours ... we have chocolate and vanilla wafer cookies at this time of year, and in the fall, we sell the chocolate mint ones. I posted elsewhere in the section that our Canadian cookies are being guaranteed nut-free. There's a link there to the info about it. [img]http://uumor.pair.com/nutalle2/peanutallergy/smile.gif[/img]
I wish you Americans could have the same thing! [img]http://uumor.pair.com/nutalle2/peanutallergy/frown.gif[/img]
LisaMcDowell,
I was very interested to read your note of 1/17/03. I will email asap to support your effort. Are you advocating for this on a national basis?
I wrote to the new president of GS/USA on the occasion of the recent nationwide recall of the chocolate-covered-raisins the Scouts and other fundraising organizations were selling (because some contained chocoate covered peanuts). I suggested that, as a large and respectable organization - one which participates in FAAN's Be A Pal program in some areas - they should take a decisive stand in acknowledging the seriousness of food allergies and the need for meticulous processing of food and become advocates for the needs of the food allergic. While I received a polite reply, it was non-committal.
My daughter is too young to be a Scout, but I would be interested in joining this effort now.
Hi Chicago,
I am so glad you mentioned that about the two different bakeries...I had no idea. Here in AZ, we only have cookies from Little Brownie Bakers. We also do not sell lemon cookies, animal treasures or friendship circles. I still might have to let my 8 year old call them, she beginning to be a bit more adamant about information; she's also into that "I told you" when I double check her on a label.
Hi Cookie,
Yes, I'm trying to get this on a national level. I can already from some of the responses I have received that this is going to be a long haul which is okay, I think I'm up for the challenge. I just have to keep my focus, and keep urging everyone to flood GSUSA w/their support. Thank you for joining!
EVERYONE: I've been asked by GSUSA to write an article regarding PA/FA for their nationwide paper "The Listening Post". I am still trying to find an angle to work with so I will be posting a topic, "What would like for me to say?", make your suggestion there, okay. By the way, they made no guarantee (wonderful!) that it would be printed, however, I have to give it my best shot and I'm certain I will be working on it for about a month or so.
Anyone that would like to support this effort please use my e-mail for your suggestions. Thanks!
How can I find out which bakery makes the ones in my area? I checked the girl scouts site and both bakery sites and didn't see anything about what part of the country they supply.
Gale
The Girl Scout's order form will have the bakery name, as well as the complete ingredients, nutritional info and specific allergy info. Just ask to see the order form and you will find complete replics of the package labeling there, as well as the bakery name and logo.
I think it is nice that they do that as it certainly helps out the FA population and others. For example, my MIL is diabetic and needed to see the carbs on the cookies before she orderd.
I've never seen an order form. Out here, the girl scouts set up tables at stores and malls and sell them right off the tables. I just wondered in case my dh wants to buy some-he does check labels but I feel more comfortable checking for myself. If I see them at the tables I will just check the boxes. If they are labeled correctly it won't matter which bakery makes them. I do think it's the abc bakery though because I've never heard of some of the ones the other bakery makes. I assumed they all made the same varieties.
Gale
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