Get your bowls ready: Girl Scout cookie cereal coming soon

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published 25 October 2016

Just in time to completely ruin your New Year's resolution to not eat dessert for breakfast, two limited edition cereals based on Girl Scout cookies will hit shelves in January 2017.

General Mills announced the new products on Monday, with spokesman Mike Siemienas saying more details are forthcoming. The two flavors are both crowd pleasers: Thin Mints, like the Girl Scout cookie of the same name, and Caramel Crunch, based on the Caramel deLite/Samoa. Some of the proceeds from cereal sales will go to the Girl Scouts of the USA, which says it agreed to the deal with General Mills in order to generate more awareness of its program. Bringing attention to the Girl Scouts while making it possible to eat Thin Mints in a whole new way? That's a win/win.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.