Have you been thinking about donating to your local food bank? Well, your mail carrier is about to make it a lot easier. On May 8th, you can take part in Stamp Out Hunger, the nation’s largest single day food drive. Letter carriers in more than 10,000 communities will collect food items and deliver them to local food banks to help some of the millions of Americans, including an estimated 16.7 million children who face hunger every day.

Here’s how you can help:

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[Fire roasted tomato and bleu cheese soup with a bacon apple and caramelized onion grilled cheese panini]

Candi Wilvang participated in the United Way Hunger Challenge with her family of three – Mom, Dad and ten year old son (with some help from her 20 year old son). Read about their experience below.

The challenge was an awesome experience for our family to take. I am the mother of two son’s ages 20 and 10. My oldest son Shattuck lives…

(A group of us volunteering at Food Lifeline for MLK 2010)

Hunger Action Week has been over for almost a week now but we still have a few last minute items to take care of!  So here goes:

One last recap:

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(Gluten-Free Girl’s recipe for homemade mayonnaise)

Well, Hunger Action Week is officially over!  We think it was another successful campaign that helped bring hunger to the forefront of many people’s minds.  Near 500 of you signed up to be a part of the campaign, over $1,000 was raised, and through  everyone’s conversations — bloggers, commenters, media, conversations — thousands of people recognized the importance of hunger and going without.  I want to send out a huge THANK YOU to everyone…

Kristin Nelson, along with her her husband and four children participated in the United Way Hunger Challenge last week. Below she shares her reflection on the experience. For more ways to take action against hunger, visit http://www.uwkc.org/newsevents/events/haw/

Well, here we are at the end of the Hunger Challenge, having fed our family of six (including one infant) for an average of $25.21 per day.   With a dad who used to work full-time for a food bank, our kids hear regularly about how lucky…

One of the main issues facing local food banks and the clients who rely on them is a lack of fresh produce. Commonly donated items tend to be canned and dry goods, which are great, but don’t make for a very well rounded diet.

Fortunately, there are numerous ways to help stock food banks with healthy, fresh, locally grown fruits and vegetables. Programs such as Solid Ground’s Lettuce Link aim to improve access to fresh produce to low-income individuals in Seattle.…

[Eric Rivera's Cooking Blog's Potato and Leek Chicken Stock Soup]

While today is the official last day of Hunger Action Week, we are going to go over how everyone’s Thursday went!

Hunger Fact:

Blogger Round-up:

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[A number of people at the United Way offices are taking the Hunger Challenge this week. The Murray family (mom, dad, and two kids) will be guest-blogging about their experience here. Today, we hear Peter Murray's perspective.]

Day 4 of the Hunger Challenge is nearly in the books, and my thoughts today have turned mainly to my health. As an insulin-dependent diabetic (I inject five times per day), this week has presented a unique set of…well, challenges beyond just trying not to think about being…

As part of Hunger Action Week, United Way is raising money for a cool project that will save food that normally would go to waste, bring more food to the emergency food system, and leverage tons more money than the project actually costs.

The project is called Yes We Can!

Here’s the basic concept: a local cannery in South King County will donate the facilities two days a week for local emergency food providers. With this time, we will take excess foods that…

(Photo from the Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness)

In addition to all of the great feedback on the site this week about our Hunger Challenge, here are a few other items that I wanted to let folks know about:

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