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She Says: Food Drive – Hangry Pants Style
Mark and I started Hangry Pants as a way to record our Meatless Month experiment. It was Mark’s idea, although I am not sure he knew what he was getting himself into entering the food blog world! He wanted to see what it would be like for someone to live his life as a vegetarian. I wanted a reason to do something I’d wanted to do for awhile; put ahimsa into practice by not eating meat anymore. From there, we wanted to see if we could eliminate high fructose corn syrup from our diets. This experiment coincidentally coincided with the famous HFCS commercials, and so we learned more about what was in our food than expected. Last month, we tried to go back to basics. Mark failed to make many meals for himself, but he tried and saw how hard it was for him. I was a bit more successful at eating less food like substances. I even ate all my dinners at the table!
Now, it’s time for a new challenge. Over the weekend Mark and I tossed some ideas around, but in the end we both agreed that to do something new right now would be insincere. It would be to fulfill a “duty” to the blog rather than to challenge ourselves or learn something new. Therefore, we decided not to do the traditional kind of challenge this month.
Instead, we want to bring awareness to food in a different way. It is sort of oddly ironic that we talk about food, worry about eating cookies, plan what we will eat, create wonderful recipes, eat at Popeye’s and photograph our food when there are people in our world, country, state, city, who go without. I recently read this article that the number of children who went hungry in the U.S. went from 430,000 in 2006 to 691,000 in 2007. And that was before the economic state of our country was labeled as “in the crapper.”
Mark and I are wonderfully blessed to have access to fresh, safe food and water. We are grateful that many people enjoy reading our humble blog. Neither of us thought it would be such fun and that we would make such great blog “friends” in this community. I know how much work it is to blog, read and comment, but I also know how fun and rewarding it can be. We’ve decided, therefore, to use this blog of ours for some good. We’re having a food drive - Hangry Pants style. Closely mimicking Peanut Butter Boy’s Leave a Comment, Feed the Hungry post, every comment (one comment per reader) left on this post is worth 5 cents! On Decemeber 22, I will use the Hangry Pants November Foodbuzz earnings (up to the amount earned from the comments) and go on a different kind of supermarket sweep. I will buy as much non-perishible food as possible and donate it to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank.
So everyone, get commenting! Feel free to be anonymous because we can determine whether each comment is from a new person anyway. Tell your friends and family and let’s raise some money!!!!
[...] and Mizfit will donate 10 cents to Safeplace, a local domestic violence shelter. Leave a comment here, and Hangry Pants will donate 5 cents towards food for the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. [...]
Good going!
Great work
Great idea!! Good luck.
This Christmas is the first time I have realized how truly lucky so many of us are. Many of us are still struggling financially, but it seriously warms my heart to see AMAZING people such as yourselves donate your money and your time to people who need it the most. Thank you for doing this…my poor butt can’t donate very much money this holiday season but THANK YOU for taking the initiative and doing this for all of us! Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas, peace be with you all x
how amazing…good luck!
Hi I have never posted here before but wanted to on this post because I think that it is such a lovely and thoughtful idea to buy groceries and donate them to a worthy cause.
Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year!
This is truly wonderful
Happy Holidays!
Great idea! Thanks for making other people’s holidays brighter
Thanks for being so generous and giving!
Happy Holidays!
What a great generous act! I pray that more people such as yourself continue to give donations or do charity work for others. Merry Christmas!
great idea, here’s another donation
Great idea!
Fantastic idea! Awesome that you’re using the blog to give back! And what started as a meatless month has turned into quite the blog for us readers! Keep it comin’!
[...] and turn them into quests to contribute to the greater good. From HangryPants‘ December Food Drive to benefit the Rhode Island Community Food Bank, to Kath’s Thanksgiving Challenge to benefit [...]
[...] Help others Hangry Pants blog is giving 5 cents to buy food for the Rhode Island Community Food Bank for every comment on this post. [...]
Very nice work. Thanks admin…
It’s probably too late, but I’ll post a comment anyway! Such a great idea.
[...] blogging community. We chat, we laugh, we cry and we support on another. Once before I asked you to comment for a cause and I am asking you to do that once again [...]
Here’s my 2 cents’ worth – or more in this case!
Thanks for all you do!