What’s your favorite way to enjoy a ripe and juicy pear? Sliced and added to a sandwich, diced as a unique pizza topping, thinly sliced on your favorite salad or baked with spices as a simple dessert – there are so many ways to enjoy pears. Peanut Noodles with Chicken and Pears Yield: 4 servings [...]
Every winter, the Programs team distributes surveys to families participating in the School Pantry and BackPack programs to help measure satisfaction with our Feeding Kids programs. From our last round, we received more than 575 responses from 18 different schools. Results stated that 97 percent of the families surveyed eat more fruits and vegetables as a [...]
Elevate Foundation was born from a strong passion and desire to help others. Claude and Constance Jones faced many obstacles growing up but were fortunate to have people in their lives that provided opportunities to make a difference in themselves. In return, they use their time, effort and resources to pay it forward. The goal [...]
Volunteer of the Month Martin Rosas Jr. has volunteered over 48 hours since May 2016. As a Regular Volunteer, he helps sort and pack food during the evening food sorting shifts at our distribution center. He has worked on projects ranging from sorting Starbucks FoodShare product, gleaning fresh produce for our School Pantry program, to [...]
Our Feeding Kids Program Team attended the Out-of-School Time Nutrition Summit in Upland, California on January 24. The summit was hosted by the California Summer Meal Coalition to provide networking and learning opportunities as well as discuss ideas on how to provide kids and families with food and resources when kids who are out of school, missing much [...]
Feeding San Diego recently started an wonderful partnership with San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) to rescue nutritious meals that were otherwise being wasted from school sites all across the city. SDUSD has 19 school sites that operate as central kitchens for surrounding schools. Each central kitchen provides daily school meals to approximately 6 – 10 [...]
Try this colorful Confetti Slaw recipe as a refreshing side dish or as a small meal by adding whole-wheat crackers and low-fat cheese for fiber and calcium. Confetti Slaw with Poppyseed Dressing Yield: 4 servings Ingredients 2 tbsp. apple cider vinegar 1 1/2 tsp. honey 1 1/2 tsp. Dijon mustard 1 1/2 tsp. fresh dill, chopped [...]
The second round of agency grants awarded $88,000 in funding to 19 partners. Grants were made possible by Walmart, Feeding San Diego and other partners. Grants were used to provide refrigeration, shelving, carts, bins, and other hard assets to increase perishable food storage and improve overall network capacity. The freezer that Catholic Charities Vista Food Resource [...]
The head of one of our partner agencies, Church of St Luke in East County, received a huge national honor in December. Carlos Cuellar was selected as the 2016 Knights of Columbus VAVS Male Volunteer of the Year. VAVS is a program through the Veterans Administration that allows veterans like Carlos to give back to [...]
In the month of December, the Feeding Kids Team worked with eight school partners to open their doors during winter vacation to provide a distribution to families in their communities. While schools are typically closed during the latter half of December for winter break, these schools worked with Feeding San Diego, their administration, teachers and [...]
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