Winter is the season for staying warm with comforting soups and stews. Most store-bought soups are full of sodium and fat, but you can avoid this by making simple soups at home! Add immune boosting veggies like carrots or bell peppers and health-promoting spices like rosemary, garlic, and thyme instead. Try this Quinoa Vegetable Soup and get a nutritional kick out [...]

Feeding San Diego is proud to welcome a new partner to the School Pantry Program: Bayside STEAM Academy.  Bayside STEAM Academy is an elementary school located in Imperial Beach. Principal, Kevin Coordt, and Business Services Technician, Melinda Newell-Baker, have led the way to establish a farmers market-style food distribution with Feeding San Diego to support [...]

On December 10, 2017, Feeding San Diego held the Miles for Meals 5k to raise funds to fight hunger in San Diego. The race began at 7:30 AM, in the Gaslamp Quarter of downtown San Diego. 204 runners and walkers came out on this beautiful Sunday morning, raising more than $7,700 for those struggling with [...]

Feeding San Diego and ABC 10 News have partnered up again this holiday season for a Month of a Million Meals.  This campaign aims to fundraise one million meals for people facing hunger in San Diego.  On Giving Tuesday, ABC 10 News hosted a telethon with Feeding San Diego. Giving Tuesday is the nation’s single [...]

Wife of an active-duty Marine, mother of one, works three jobs; yet her and her family live below the poverty line.  This is the life Chelsey leads. Chelsey lives in military housing in the Murphy Canyon area of San Diego, where she takes care of her rambunctious two-year-old daughter named Charlie. Though her husband is [...]

Over the past two weeks, Feeding San Diego teamed up with local Assemblymembers Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher and Shirley Weber to help provide special Thanksgiving food for families facing hunger in San Diego. Families who attended these events received turkeys, along with fresh produce: potatoes, carrots, zucchini, strawberries, onions, and pears. The distributions were set up [...]

Guest Post by Christina Kam, Feeding San Diego intern Last month I continued to do CalFresh outreach at Jewish Family Services Corner Market and St. Paul’s Cathedral locations. One of the challenges I have seen with those facing hunger in our community is unemployment. At the Jewish Family Services Corner Market, Dani (another FSD intern) [...]

Volunteer of the Month: Nicole Gomez Nicole Gomez is a senior at San Diego State University majoring in Foods & Nutrition. She began working with Feeding San Diego in September of 2017 as a nutrition intern, focusing on providing nutrition education to low income communities in San Diego. In that short amount of time she [...]

With fall nights getting colder, satisfy your craving for some warmth with this easy-to-make sweet potato soup. Sweet Potato Soup Yield: 4 Servings 1 tbsp olive oil 1 medium onion, chopped 1/2 clove minced garlic 1 cup low-sodium chicken broth 1 medium sweet potato, peeled and diced 4 large carrots, peeled and sliced 1 red pepper, peeled and sliced 1 [...]

With the new school year underway, parents, teachers and students start their yearly routine, which can come with some challenges. Whether it’s access to reliable transportation, having enough time to eat breakfast or staying alert in class, the last thing a family should have to worry about is having enough food for the week. Feeding [...]