March 12, 2018
Culinary School Student Spotlight: Tiffany Greenfield
Tiffany Greenfield has worked in food service since she was 18. Her first job was at iHOP, and over the years, she has moved up to work in fine dining. Most recently she worked the breakfast shift at the Hilton. Tiffany’s positions have always been front of the house, but her passion has always been…
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March 6, 2018
Food Bank to offer community cooking classes
Join Food Bank of Delaware’s Executive Chef Tim Hunter for the Food Bank’s first community cooking class! Students will learn how to make basic soups and sauces in a commercial kitchen, and these skills will easily transfer to their home kitchen. Participants will take home a sauce and a soup at the end of the…
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February 21, 2018
$tand By Me ® offers free financial counseling; learn to budget, save
It’s that time of year when people start thinking about taxes, and tax preparation and payment can become additional stresses when people are worried about how to buy heating oil, food, pay the rent, and perhaps even medicine. People who deal with food insecurity, including – but not limited to – the seniors we serve…
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Closing the “SNAP Gap” in Delaware
By Ian Lawrence and Dan Jackson, SNAP Outreach Coordinators Unless Congress passes President Trump’s proposed FY 2019 budget, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits will remain in their current form of an electronic benefits card, providing recipients the opportunity to choose the foods that are best suited for their households. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,…
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February 20, 2018
Food Bank of Delaware statement in response to President Trump’s FY 19 budget proposal
The mission of the Food Bank of Delaware is to “provide nutritious foods to Delawareans in need and facilitate long-term solutions to the problems of hunger and poverty through community education and advocacy.” As we work each day to fulfill this mission, we are saddened by the budget proposal put forward by President Trump last…
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February 16, 2018
Perdue Farms donates 28,000 pounds of chicken to Food Bank of Delaware
Thanks to the generosity of Perdue Farms, Delaware families struggling with food insecurity will have access to nutritious chicken. Perdue delivered 28,000 pounds of no-antibiotics-ever chicken to the Food Bank of Delaware this afternoon. The chicken will be distributed to families in need through the Food Bank’s network of 536 hunger-relief program partners across the…
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February 13, 2018
Resolutions 2018, Oh My!
By Lisa Grinnage, $tand By Me Financial Coach It’s hard to believe, but January is over, and February is halfway through! How are you coming along with your New Year’s Resolutions? Maybe you didn’t set one. It’s never too late to start new habits… especially as they relate to your finances! As one of the…
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February 12, 2018
Delaware organizations encouraged to build structures out of cans to help alleviate hunger
The Food Bank of Delaware announced today that registration for the sixth annual CANgineering competition is now open. Organizations have until March 2 to register for the food drive and structure-building contest. CANgineering supports the year-round hunger relief efforts of the Food Bank of Delaware. With more than 114,000 Delawareans relying on the services of…
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February 7, 2018
Help us help hungry Delaware kids
Let’s call her Miranda. She’s in 6th grade. She has three younger brothers. Her parents both work, but their paychecks often don’t stretch far enough to cover the cost of rent, utilities, transportation – even to go to work, child care, and food. She is an example of the nearly one in five children in…
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January 26, 2018
CANgineering Registration