If you’re planning on getting some grocery shopping done this weekend, you may want to take a trip to Country Harvest in Palmerton, where some Girl Scout troops have set up shop for a mass food collection.

Throughout the weekend, various troops will take shifts manning a table adorned with the Girl Scouts' famous cookies. But they’re not just there to tempt you with treats. The girls are collecting soup cans for the Christian Action Council of Palmerton Area Food Pantry.

The annual tradition — a national event known as the “Souper Bowl” thanks to its proximity to the Super Bowl football game — encourages kids to fight hunger locally on one of the year’s most highly anticipated weekends. The Palmerton Girl Scouts troops set their highest record in 2016 with more than 3,600 cans collected.

This year, they’re aiming for 4,000. It's an ambitious goal. But considering they’d already amassed 500 by 5 p.m. Friday, it’s doable — especially with your help.

Camryn Bonser, 11, has been doing the collection alongside her mother, Melissa Bonser, and younger sister, 10-year-old Taylor Bonser, for about three years. On Friday evening, they were teamed up with a fellow troop member, Anna Borger, 9, and her mother, Jennika Borger.

“I have a lot more than I expect in life,” Camryn, who approached strangers and informed them of the soup drive without hesitation, said. “It’s sad to hear that people don’t have as much.”

“It helps people,” Taylor added of the collection. “They need it.”

The Girl Scouts’ Souper Bowl will continue through the weekend at Country Harvest. It ends at 5 p.m. on Sunday.

Shoppers can pick up soup cans while checking off their regular grocery lists and drop them by the Girl Scouts’ table near the store entrance.