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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Well, Hunger Action Week came to a close on Friday with the release of United Way of King County’s Hunger Relief Now! plan, but the conversation continues thanks to efforts of all the food bloggers who took part in the Hunger Challenge. We will continue to post reflections on the week as they’re written, but in the meantime I’d like to share some excerpts from the past few days:

From 1 Family Friendly Food: On the way home I was thinking…

So we’ve done a lot this week to raise awareness about hunger issues. Now what? United Way of King County and other community partners have put together the Hunger Relief Now! plan, which outlines 12 actions step that are required to address hunger in this community, reduce it and decrease the risk of hunger in the future. Click here to read the summary of the plan, or if you love details, go ahead and dive into the full 60-page report.

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