Talk about a "Souper" idea.

As two football teams prepare to clash for supremacy in their quest to win the Super Bowl this Sunday, another battle for a good cause is quietly being waged at a grocery store in Palmerton.Members of Palmerton Girl Scout Troop 301 have put themselves in a position to collect cans that will later be distributed to the Christian Action Council of Palmerton Area Churches.For a fifth consecutive year, troop members have chosen to spend a good portion of their weekend at Country Harvest Family Market to carry out their annual collection for the "Souper Bowl of Caring Campaign."Tammy Stetler, event organizer, said, "We're always here Super Bowl weekend to collect food to donate to the food bank in Palmerton."The troop began its collection drive Friday, and will continue this weekend. Shoppers can donate cans to the troop until 8 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.Stetler said troop members offer little slips of paper to shoppers to tell them they are collecting canned foods for the food bank.In turn, Stetler said Country Harvest has sales on canned goods. On the way out, shoppers who choose to participate give cans they've purchased to the troop, which will eventually be distributed to St. John's Lutheran Church in Palmerton."It's mostly soup, vegetables, tuna fish, peanut butter, spaghetti sauce," she said. "We have two vans full of food we take up (to the church)."Troop member Magnolia Koch was all smiles after the troop collected cans from shopper Barbara Solliday on her way out of the store."We're here to sell some Girl Scout cookies and to collect cans for the food drive," said Magnolia, 10.Solliday, of Palmerton, said she enjoys being able to assist the program in any way she can."I do that every time I come by," Solliday said. "It's a good organization; I was a Girl Scout member in Philadelphia, and my mother was a leader."Stetler said 2,025 cans were collected last year through the collection."We're trying to beat that total," she said. "Each year (the number of cans sold) goes up."