FACT:
More than 16 million kids are food insecure in this country– that’s one in five kids.
FACT:
More than 20 million kids qualify for and receive free or reduced price lunch during the school year. Only 10.5 million receive breakfast.
FACT:
Of those kids who receive food assistance at their school, only one in seven receives free meals over the summer.
FACT:
Through Share Our Strength, just $1 can provide 10 meals for a child.
SUPER FACT:
EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS. A LOT.
The Great American Bake Sale
Sign up to hold a bake sale in your area to help fight childhood hunger!
We’ve done this and it’s a hugely satisfying experience on a lot of levels: knowing that you’ve helped your community, getting to know your extended neighbors, helping your kids to make a real, tangible difference.
All you have to do is sign up here. Share Our Strength offers a tremendous amount of resources and support, from coupons for Domino sugar to sale flyers to letters to help you ask for donations from local bakeries and stores.
We haven’t nailed down our sale date this year yet, but when we do I’ll update here, as we’ll be holding a “virtual” bake sale at the same time.
If you’re a blogger, consider participating as part of Bloggers Without Borders, by hosting your own bake sale or partnering with one already happening in your area!
3rd Annual National Challenge Weekend:
Share Our Strength has set a goal of having 500 bake sales – at least 10 in every state – in one weekend, April 20th-22nd. The first 300 bake sale hosts to submit $275 or more from bake sales held on National Challenge Weekend will receive a Jay at Play’s Little Miss Muffin Pop N Flip™ toy, as a “thank you” for their efforts.
GIVEAWAY!
Jay at Play International’s Little Miss Muffin Is Baking a Difference in the Fight Against Childhood Hunger! Throughout 2012, 1% of Jay at Play’s Little Miss Muffin Pop N Flip™ dolls sold will be donated to Share Our Strength’s Great American Bake Sale (up to $75,000), a national effort to end childhood hunger in America by 2015. Little Miss Muffin arrives to you peeking out of her magical muffin cup. Pop her muffin top, flip the muffin cup inside out, and Little Miss Muffin becomes a soft adorable doll.
Kids love to help in the kitchen, and participating in a bake sale is a great way to teach children about charity while spending time together as a family. MyLittleMissMuffin.com offers a variety of simple recipes for young children, from fingerpainting on poundcake to mixing homemade playdough. More advanced mini chefs might enjoy layering a red, white and blueberry parfait with strawberry and vanilla yogurt sprinkled with fruit on top. Children will have hours of fun playing with Little Miss Muffin and making these sweet treats in the kitchen.
Enter to win your own 9″ Little Miss Muffin doll!
Just follow the instructions in the Rafflecopter widget.
Disclosure: I received a Villeroy & Boch platter and a Little Miss Muffin doll for posting about the Food Blogger Bake Sale, in support of Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry Campaign. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Stephanie Olmsted says
I love soft Chocolate Chip cookies at bake sales.
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Natalie says
Love rice kris pie treats
Jacqueline Ellis says
Cookies of any kind.
Kelsey Apley says
Anything with chocolate!! Also Angel Food Cake!!
tamar says
gooey blondies 🙂
Paula Tavernie says
I love Chewy Brownies!
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Kathlyne says
I like cupcakes.
Gary Vanicek says
PIE
Susie B. Homemaker says
Brownies at a bake sale are my favorite!
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Valerie Taylor Mabrey says
Peanut butter cookies or No-Bake cookies
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Abby says
My kids really love it when I pick up popcorn balls.
mary renshaw says
I would take ANYTHING baked over candy ANY day!!! But at a BAKE sale I head for the breads first, like banana bread!!!! THen the cupcakes!
tricia dunkle says
I love to see red velvet cake
Shannon Baas says
I love the brownies and chocolate chip cookies.
Tabathia B says
slices of sweet potato pie
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Tiffini Lance says
i love muffins! lol
Patrice says
I really like bake sale brownies!
Rebecca Peters says
I love brownies
Laurie Emerson says
I love seeing Chocolate Chip Cookies.
susan glazer says
i love brownies with nuts.
Cristi says
I love seeing apple pie
Rebecca Graham says
Chocolate chip cookies and chess pies.
Julie says
cupcakes or snickerdoodles
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EMMA L HORTON says
COOKIES
Amy DeLong says
brownies
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Desiree Dunbar says
Brownies
Linda G. says
PIE!
Shirley Hicks says
pecan pie
Maryann says
I love cupcakes
Huston Smith says
I love brownies
Stephanie A says
brownies or butterscotch bars
Kelly Britton says
No bake cookies!
Angela J says
cupcakes, easy to take home, etc.
christina moore says
I like cookies
tamra childers says
Brownies
kathy pease says
i love to see chocolate cupcakes
Nicole C. says
Oatmeal No Bake COokies
Jennifer Wise says
I love monster cookies. Think they are one of my favorite things in the world.
Ashlee Ostrander says
I’d love to see cheesecake!
Kristin says
Red Velvet cupcakes!
Dwayne Berry says
Brownies!
Sand says
I’d love to see cupcakes.