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No Kid Hungry
Join the national movement of people committed to ending childhood hunger in America.
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Cooking Matters
Empowers families with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to prepare healthy and affordable meals.
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Great American Dine Out
Join us September 16-22, 2012 for the fifth annual Dine Out For No Kid Hungry!
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Great American Bake Sale
A national campaign that mobilizes Americans to end childhood hunger by holding bake sales in their communities.
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Taste of the Nation
Fine dining and tasting events that help make sure no kid in America grows up hungry.
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Building a strong foundation
Cooking Matters® empowers families with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to prepare healthy, tasty and affordable meals.
With the help of volunteer culinary and nutrition experts, Cooking Matters course participants learn how to select nutritious and low-cost ingredients and prepare them in ways that provide the best nourishment possible to their families. Cooking Matters is nationally sponsored by the ConAgra Foods® Foundation and Walmart.
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Recent Highlights
New Report Finds 8 in 10 Low-Income Families Cook Dinner 5+ Times a Week
It’s Dinnertime, a new report from Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters and the ConAgra Foods® Foundation, looks at the meal planning, shopping and healthy cooking efforts of low-income American families. Click here for more.
Share Our Strength Unveils New Educational Resource
Building on its proven success teaching families how to cook and eat healthy on a budget, Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters has launched Shopping Matters® a guided grocery store tour that helps families make healthy and affordable shopping choices. For more information, visit ShoppingMatters.org.
Latest News
SEEDS Nutritional Cooking Program Concludes with Competition
The Leader – Students in a Cooking Matters class pick up great habits: “One of the (participating) girls said she didn’t want to go to [get fast food] after this, she wanted to eat what they made here because it tastes better,” Eccles said. “That’s the whole idea of this program – getting them to make healthy choices.” Read more here.
February 8th, 2012
Wait. So People Are Cooking?
The New York Times – “It is exciting to learn that home cooking plays a larger role in the U.S. than we might have expected, and even more so to imagine and pursue the ways to make it easier and more popular than ever.” Read more here.
February 1st, 2012
Is Universal Access to Good, Healthy Food Really a Problem?
The Atlantic – It’s Dinnertime, a new report by Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters, is featured in this peice that examines the obstacles to healthy meals, like planning skills, time and, yes, price. Read more here.
January 31st, 2012
Study: Low-Income Families Cook Dinner at Home Five Nights a Week, Aspire to Eat Healthy
CBS Atlanta – Low-income American families are cooking dinner at home most nights but are struggling to make healthy meals, according to a new study released today from Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters® with support from the ConAgra Foods® Foundation. Read more here.
January 31st, 2012
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