We have been doing Girl Scouts for several years, and as a Troop Leader, I am always looking for different experiences with my kids. I was able to set up a grocery store tour at our local Hannaford when the kids were in Brownies.
For the tour, the girls met with a Hannaford Dietician, who walked through the store talking about products and healthy choices. I had met with the dietician prior to the tour just to touch base about what the tour would include.
The tour touched on a lot of things like healthy eating, how to spot healthy foods, how to read labels, and so on.
The kids got to sample a healthy recipe as well. Our Hannaford Dietician regularly does some neat sampling stations, and the girls enjoyed their treat of apples with a cinnamon-yogurt dip.
Overall, this was a neat tour to do with our Girl Scouts. We did this when our troop was in 2nd grade, and I can see us going back to do another tour as the girls get older, and being able to focus more on how to make healthy choices.
There are a bunch of Grocery Store Tour patches to choose from as well when you do this tour.
We did our tour at Hannaford, but I would just get in touch with your local grocery store to see if they do tours for scouts.
I don’t know anything about Girl Scouts or their badges they can earn now. Sure they loved the grocery store tour and earning their badge.
This is cute!! I’m a girl scout too before and I remembered my past experiences because of this.
I always wanted to be a girl scout for the badges! I was all about the rewards. I hope when I have kids I can give them this experience that I missed out on.
The tour looks like a lot of fun! I miss my Girl Scout years. I had a ton of fun making up fun meetings and I loved the girls!
This tour did seem wonderful. I think it is a great idea in the future for another tour on making healthy choices.
What a fun event for the girls. I would love to tour a grocery store
I love the idea. it’s great to teach kids to choose healthy foods at their young age.
Sounds like a lot of fun. One of my daughters use to be in Girl Scouts. I wish she still was. I think they had a lot of fun.
This is a great idea. I love how kids learn about food choices in a fun way and earn badges at the same time. Awesome.
That sounds like a fun tour indeed. I was a girl scout back in elementary. We always had fun.
That’s such a good idea. Many parents grocery shop online or when kids are at school so they may not get to be taught by their parents.
This is so cool! I wonder if the stores locally may even offer this for homeschool students! I think a grocery store setting is a great first job for teenagers as well. They get to interact with customers without them being in a rush as in most cases at food establishments! Bagging, cashier, stocking, cleaning..all great learning jobs.
What a great idea! I know that my kid will appreciate a store tour like this!
This is eally cool. yes kids will sure had fun. I think getting good produce will be best thing about an wonderful grocery store.
Such a good tour and it’s important to know their food choices.
What a fun field trip! I am sure the girls had a wonderful time.
Sounds like a fun tour indeed! My kids loves being a girl scout so much!