January 16 - Help Yourself while Helping Others!

How many of you made a New Year's Resolution to lose a few pounds?  How's that been going?  Did you know that you can lose those pounds and help others while you are doing it?   YES!  Okay,  I know it was only a few days ago that I was recommending that you buy your Frosty key tag to support Adoption charities and now today I am telling you to drop some pounds!  Sounding a little fickle, aren't I?  Oh well.. buy the key tag because it supports a good cause and try not to eat too many of the frostys. 


I know there are many people out there like me.  I have  been semi-dieting for the last several months and I have lost 21 pounds... which is a good thing... but now I have a new motivation.  I can help provide food to a local food bank by pledging to lose weight.  I have pledged to lose an additional 24 lbs. so that means I will secure 24 lbs of food for a food bank I designated in my area.  AWESOME!  


Last year, The Pound For Pound Challenge helped Feeding America® secure more than 6.2 million pounds of groceries on behalf of local food banks. The Pound For Pound Challenge is back for year three and with your participation, we hope it is even a greater success!



For every pound you pledge to lose through May 31, 2011, the Pound For Pound Challenge will donate 11¢ to Feeding America® – enough to secure one pound of groceries on behalf of a local food bank.  Did you know that hunger is a struggle for 1 in 6 Americans?
 
 
Feeding America provides low-income individuals and families with the fuel to survive and even thrive. As the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity, their network members supply food to more than 37 million Americans each year, including 14 million children and 3 million seniors. Serving the entire United States, more than 200 member food banks support 61,000 agencies that address hunger in all of its forms.
 
 
So, make a pledge to lose a few pounds and then follow through... you will be helping others and you will be helping yourself! 
 
 
 
Get Involved:
 
Pledge to lose pounds in the Pound for Pound Challenge.
 
Donate to Feeding America.  -  This is for you skinny folks out there who have no need to lose weight...you know who you are!   : )

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Aug 1 (Day 154) Making a Difference Tastes Good!

Today's way to make a difference is EASY, LOW COST and it tastes GREAT! 

Hunger in America is a real problem!  1 in 6 Americans deal struggle with food insecurity. SNICKERS® is continuing their efforts with Feeding America to ‘Bar Hunger.’ The brand hopes to donate as many as three and a half million meals to Feeding America in 2010 through the Bar Hunger campaign.



SNICKERS will provide a financial donation equivalent to 2.5 million meals to Feeding America. In addition, SNICKERS will be encouraging consumers to help trigger meal donations up to an additional 1 million meals. This is where we come in.. we can help make a difference!

From July through September 2010 a special code will be printed under every SNICKERS Bar wrapper.
Americans can help SNICKERS® ‘Bar Hunger’ by entering the code from specially-marked SNICKERS wrappers at SNICKERS.com or by texting the code to 45495.

SNICKERS® will donate an additional meal to Feeding America for every wrapper code that is collected – up to one million meals.

How Can I Help?

Easy!  Get out to the store and buy some SNICKERS bars.  Share some with family and friends and make sure you enter your wrapper codes at SNICKERS.com

Spread the word - Tell others about this delicious way to make a difference! 


DID YOU KNOW?
The Snickers bar has been around since 1930, when the Mars family named the chocolate-covered caramel-peanut-nougat bar after their favorite horse.






Source:  Snickers.com