by hungerintervention | Dec 11, 2017 | Blog, Senior Community Meals
The modern grocery store is designed to hide the impact of seasons on the consumer. What a reality check it was, when the volunteer who does the grocery shopping for our Senior Meal Program had to report back that there were no oranges. No oranges? No oranges, because...
by hungerintervention | Dec 11, 2017 | Blog, Cooking Demonstrations, Educational Programs
HIP Cooking Matters classes in the community for teens and adults We had a cooking matters class earlier this year with a Muslim women’s group at the North Seattle Family Center. They liked the class so much that they signed up their teen-aged girls! Kelly, one...
by Srijan Chakraborty | Oct 25, 2017 | Blog, Educational Programs
Everybody knows about the elephant in the room we don’t talk about, but what about the invisible gorilla we don’t see? If you haven’t seen the video, I highly recommend it. It blew my mind when I saw it for the first time. Recently I read an article...
by hungerintervention | Oct 23, 2017 | Senior Community Meals, Volunteers
Darcy, HIP’s Meal Program Manager, introduces one of our volunteers, Earl, who bakes fresh bread rolls from scratch for our Senior Meals Program. I consider myself a confident cook. Or at least you would hope so considering I run our Community Senior...
by hungerintervention | Oct 11, 2017 | Blog, Healthy HIP Packs
One unexpected comment captured my attention as I was reading through our Healthy HIP Pack surveys from last year. Many of the comments are just one word or phrase like “good”, “very good”, “it’s helpful” and “Thank you”. I understand that. You can guess the number of...
by hungerintervention | Sep 11, 2017 | Blog, Summer Eats
Meadowbrook View (MBV) is one of HIP’s newest sites so no one really knew what the site or the kids would be like. By chance I was left with MBV after everyone chose the sites they wanted, and I was willing to be the first human test subject for this site. I was the...
