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Food 4 Kids

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It may be early to think about school, but a group led by Alice Robertson and Caron Golden launched the second annual Food 4 Kids Backpack Program that provides food and backpacks for low income elementary kids at risk for hunger, especially on weekends.   NBC San Diego is their partner and they will donate the equivalent of the 7% cut First Giving takes so food4kids gets all the monies raised.

If you don’t want to donate money, then get to the August 21 Little Italy Mercato and donate neutral black or red backpacks (no logos, please) and kid-friendly non-perishable food. And there’s a raffle to boot on Saturday with swell items.

Or you can eat  at more than 40 restaurants this month and choose the “Dollar a Dish” item that features a specific dish for which the restaurant  will donate $1 every time it is ordered during the month. For a list of the restaurants and their dishes, go to San Diego Foodstuff.

Buzz donated…how about you?

Holiday Cheer

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Do something nice for others this holiday season.  Get down to Little Italy’s Mercato on December 12 with food for chronically hungry kids who don’t have food for the weekend.  Well-known local food bloggers Caron Golden and Alice Robertson are spearheading this year’s drive that is part of the San Diego Food Bank.  Essentially, for about $6 a week, the program fills backpacks with kid friendly snacks so the children have food for the weekend.  All the program info is here and if you’d like to donate money, Caron and Alice have a special link so that all donations go directly to the backpack program.  Their monetary goal is $5000 and they are half way there, but foods  such as peanut butter, mac and cheese and raisins as well as neutral colored backpacks are welcome on December 12.