Additional Resources

After reading through all the Northshore information, here are some other resources you may find useful.

New, January 20: Next week, Safeway is launching a Nourish Everyone campaign focused on SNAP. As part of the campaign, the company aims to call attention to the fact that 10% of Americans are food insecure, and to advocate for greater access to food in ways that are convenient, allow for choice, and preserve dignity. For more information please go to the Safeway website http://www.safeway.com/ebtonline

For the latest news and information about extended SNAP benefits and a continuation of the P-EBT program check out www.frac.org. On this site you’ll also find lots of timely information about hunger and poverty, action items, programs, research and data.

northwestharvest.org is right here in our own backyard, leading the fight for hungry people in Washington to have access to nutritious food while preserving their dignity and promoting good health.

Our neighbors to the north have a wealth of resources, particularly at Community Food Centres of Canada at www.cfccanada.ca Understanding the issues and reading inspirational stories about people and programs are just two of the features you’ll find on this site.

The Federal Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act provides liability protection when you donate to a food bank. For full details, go to https://www.feedingamerica.org/about-us/partners/become-a-product-partner/food-partners

If you’re going to be handing out pizza, flipping hamburgers, tossing salad, preparing dessert, using food prep. equipment or utensils, a useful (and possibly required) thing to have is a current WA State Food Worker Card. All the information you’ll need including a study guide to help you prepare for the test, payment (there’s a $10 fee) details and the test itself can be found at https://www.doh.wa.gov/CommunityandEnvironment/Food/FoodWorkerandIndustry/FoodWorkerCard

‘Burien Foodbank Keeps Latinex Community Fed with Traditional Ingredients’. This inspirational article first appeared in an August 2020 edition of Crosscut. Check it out here https://crosscut.com/culture/2020/08/burien-food-bank-keeps-latinx-community-fed-traditional-ingredients

Recipe Box

“Feeding the Whole Family: Cooking with Whole Foods: More than 200 Recipes for Feeding Babies, Young Children, and their Parents” by Cynthia Lair

“Mexican Everyday” by Rick Bayless

“Eat Well on $4 a Day: Good and Cheap” by Leanne Brown. Here’s the link to the downloadable pdf (English) https://books.leannebrown.com/good-and-cheap.pdf

In Spanish, click on https://books.leannebrown.com/bueno-y-barato.pdf

And finally, https://wasnap-ed.org/resources/recipes/a-bite-of-snap-ed/