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The Iowa Cookie Crumbs were formed in January 2007 by Abbie Crawford.  We are part of Jeanette Cram's network of Treat the Troops "Crumbs". 

 

Treat the Troops is a project started in the early 1990’s by Jeanette  (the Cookie Lady) in Hilton Head, South Carolina.  Her mission was very simple.  She wanted the deployed American military personnel living in tents or temporary quarters to know that people at home were supporting and remembering them. 

 

Jeanette began baking and sending boxes of homemade cookies and treats along with letters of thanks and support to our military men and women serving in the Middle East.  Twenty years later, she and her "Crumbs" who are scattered across this country are still baking up a storm.  

 

We are the only group of such bakers in the states of Iowa and Nebraska. 

 

Jeanette has a military approved website Treat the Troops open to all service personnel serving in the Gulf.  There they can make a request for a box of cookies.  The Cookie Lady then forwards some of these requests to her "Crumbs" every month.  It is our job to see that the requests are filled as soon as possible.  Since 2007, the Iowa Cookie Crumbs have sent over a half million cookies to marines, soldiers, airmen and sailors.

 2011 Operation Holiday Cheer Results