Stamp Out Hunger 2013

On Saturday, May 11th, a number of sponsors including Valpak and Campbell Soup Company will join forces with the National Association of Letter Carriers to Stamp Out Hunger across America in order to provide assistance to the rapidly increasing number of Americans who are struggling with hunger.

Now in its 21st year, the Stamp Out Hunger effort is the nation’s largest single-day food drive. In 2011, 70.2 million pounds of food was donated, which brought the grand total of donations to more than 1.1 billion pounds of food collected over the history of the drive. That’s amazing!

This is a great opportunity to clean out your pantries and stockpiles for a good cause.  Acceptable donation items include items such as canned meats, fish, soup, bottled juice, vegetables, pasta, cereal and rice that do not require refrigeration. Please do not include items that have expired or are in glass containers.

I’ve got quite a few bags worth that I’ll be setting out! 

Head on over here to the Stamp Out Hunger Facebook page for more information.

***And just FYI, for those of you local to the Sacramento area, food donations to the Sacramento Food Bank can always be made via boxes inside each Goodwill Express location.