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Greek Salad Bites

Greek Salad Bites

If you are working on building your chopping skills like our participants in our weekly Community Kitchen, this recipe offers ample opportunities to practice.  It's also a great appetizer to take to your next potluck. Greek Salad Bites Serves 10-12 as appetizers...

Carrot Risotto

Carrot Risotto

This risotto uses rice that you likely have around the house and can be adapted to include your favorite vegetables.  If you don't have carrots, feel free to grate in zucchini or parsnip or stir in chopped spinach.  Carrot Risotto Serves 6 as a side Ingredients 2 cans...

Volunteer Spotlight: Delivery Crew

Volunteer Spotlight: Delivery Crew

Volunteers are crucial at every stage of a Healthy HIP Pack's life, especially as our program expands to meet a greater need. Volunteers organize food drives, repackage bulk foods into kid-sized portions, fill packs to the order of the weekly menu, and finalize packs...

March Packing Party on Flickr

Pictures are up from the March Packing Party!  It looks like fun was had by all.  And thanks to Craig from Momentum Imagery for capturing the action. [alpine-phototile-for-flickr src="set" imgl="flickr" style="wall" row="4" num="12" size="240" align="center" max="80"...

BREAKING NEWS: HIP is all over the news

BREAKING NEWS: HIP is all over the news

As of late, we have been fortunate to have some great press coverage of our expansion of the Healthy HIP Packs program. I would say more but I'll let the stories do the talking... You can find an article from the Seattle PI with lots of great pictures here. You can...

Two Dog Yoga Benefit Class to Support of Healthy HIP Packs

Two Dog Yoga and Hunger Intervention Program are pleased to offer an all-levels yoga class taught by Annie Stocker, owner of Two Dog Yoga, to benefit the Healthy HIP Packs Program. Space is limited to 25 and will be filled on a first come first served basis. When:...

Quick Pickled Cucumbers

Ingredients 1 English cucumber 1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar 2 teaspoons sugar 2 teaspoons chopped fresh dill  OR  1 tsp dried dill Coarse salt Directions Cut cucumber crosswise into slivers. In a large bowl, whisk together vinegar, sugar, dill, and 1 teaspoon...

Broccoli Cheese Fritters

When you, or as in our case the food bank, have tons of broccoli, a great way to eat it is as a fritter!  It’s a super easy and fun recipe to make with kids.  We found the best way to mix this batter is to squeeze and squish it all together with our hands....

Curried Carrot Soup

Ingredients 2 tablespoons butter 1 cup chopped onion 1 teaspoon curry powder Coarse salt and ground pepper 3 ½ cups (2 cans) chicken broth 1 or 2 tablespoons lemon juice 2 pounds carrots, peeled and cut into 1-inch chunks (Optional) Garnish with cilantro or a dollop...

No-Bake Cranberry Apple Crisp

  Ingredients 1 cans whole berry cranberry sauce 2-3 apples – cored, peeled, and chopped 1/2 stick of butter, cut into pea sized cubes ½ cup rolled oats ½ cup brown sugar ½ cup all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon cinnamon (Optional) ¼ cup chopped nuts Directions In large...