The Challenge

My challenge is to raise both awareness and money.  Please pledge whatever you can.  My email is mebaillie@yahoo.com.  Send me an email with your pledge amount.  In the email also send me your address and phone number.  Alternatively, you can mail a payment to me straight away at: Melanie Baillie, 1103 E Best Avenue, Suite E, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83814.  All of the money will go to the Idaho food bank.

Part of my awareness campaign is to share my knowledge about how to make a food budget stretch, while not compromising on nutrition.  It can be done, and I aim to try and impart that information.  I can use help on budget stretching meals too.

The other part of my awareness campaign is to bring people's attention to the fact that $4.30 per day is not alot to eat on.   A person has to be creative in stretching a food budget this meager.  Thus, food, whenever it can be obtained from food banks or excess in people's gardens is critical to feeding the less fortunate whole, nutritious foods.

Join me - no one in America should be without food.  Frankly, no one in this world should be without food given the size of our planet and its ability to sustain life.  That being what it is, I cannot change the world today, so I am going to start with my corner of it.

Bon Appetit!