When you envision a holiday dinner, what do you see? A table filled with turkey, ham, stuffing, roasted vegetables, and potatoes. You can smell the sweet scent of apple pie, cranberry sauce, and fresh baked cookies. Unfortunately, many of these foods are hard for organizations like Feeding San Diego to come by during the holiday [...]

We are excited to wrap up a summer of giving with the accomplishments of local yoga teacher, Amy Krieger. Amy dedicated all proceeds from 10 of her weekly donation-based yoga classes to Feeding San Diego. Each Thursday evening this past summer, 15-40 people gathered by Mission Bay to do yoga with Amy as she raised funds [...]

Feeding San Diego’s A Place at the Table Campaign is a community effort to raise $50,000 to help families facing hunger this Thanksgiving. Could you imagine a Thanksgiving without food? The holidays are a tough time for families facing hunger.  With over 400,000 people in San Diego county facing food insecurity, many  won't experience the typical food [...]

Feeding San Diego hosted a press conference on October 10 to ask Congress not to cut funding from federal hunger-relief programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Despite 4 out of 5 people believing that protecting funding for federal hunger-relief programs is the right thing to do for the American people and economy, Congress [...]

Pumpkins aren't the only gourds you can enjoy this fall - try the equally delicious acorn squash! Acorn squash has a mellow sweet taste that pairs nicely with savory flavors or eaten as a dessert by itself, such as the recipe below. Acorn Squash “A Sweet Treat” Two servings Ingredients 1 medium acorn squash halved [...]

Volunteer of the Month: Lorenzo Patino Lorenzo Patino has been volunteering with Feeding San Diego since March of 2014 and contributed more than 138 hours.  Lorenzo is a Team Leader, leading volunteer projects during food sorting shifts weekly on Tuesday evenings. The projects Lorenzo leads include gleaning produce for School Pantries and sorting reclamation for kids [...]

As a member of the Feeding America network, Feeding San Diego believes in the power of community and in the importance of acting as a good neighbor – even when our neighbors live more than a thousand miles away. After Hurricane Harvey left Houston and other parts of Texas devastated, Feeding San Diego wanted to [...]

This autumn, Feeding San Diego will be adding two new School Pantries: Rolando Park Elementary School & Bayside Elementary School.  With the addition of these pantries, Feeding San Diego is hoping to feed more families in South County as well as by Rolando Village. The School Pantry program is an important part of our fight [...]

Families often volunteer at Feeding San Diego, but none are quite like Carmelle & TN. This mother and daughter pair have been volunteering nearly every Saturday morning for the last decade. Carmelle Remillard is a medical writer and scientist and her daughter, Tatiana (who prefers to go by TN) is beginning her sophomore year at [...]