Posts under ‘Do unto others’

If you’re planning a dinner out in San Francisco tonight, I humbly suggest that you pick from a list of 13 restaurants taking part in Dine Out Against Hunger. They will all donate up to 10 percent of tonight’s dinner sales to the San Francisco Food Bank, which supplies more than 600 food programs throughout [...]

When I let Amy Sherman of Cooking With Amy talk me into the Hunger Challenge, I’m going to have to be honest…I had no idea what I was in for. I mean, I’m Catholic, and besides that, I have a pretty outsized ability to beat myself up and set arbitrary rules for myself, so for [...]

Last week, Tyson Foods delivered its promised food donation to the San Francisco Food Bank. A huge thank you to all of you who went over and posted a comment to help maximize that donation — your work did, indeed, pay off. Tyson has also posted a video with Amy Sherman of Cooking with Amy [...]

In some ways, I feel like the Hunger Challenge has taken up this entire month. I began the month thinking about issues of hunger in this community, and then I heard about the challenge, thought long and mightily about it, accomplished it, then wrote about it for almost two weeks. I’ll admit…I’m feeling wearied by [...]

One dollar and eight cents. That’s what I had left from my shopping trip at the beginning of the Hunger Challenge, and I’d been carrying it around all week in case of an emergency. And by emergency, I meant, a sudden and urgent need to go to McDonald’s. I figured I could use the money [...]

I was running late again on Friday morning, but this time just made a peanut butter sandwich and packed it, along with another container of the rice-beans-eggplant for lunch. I still had a pear at work that I’d taken Thursday and hadn’t eaten, so that would come in handy along the way. As I walked [...]

On Thursday, I could not get myself moving when I got out of bed. No matter what I did, it seemed like I was moving through molasses, not connecting dots, walking into my bedroom to get something and realizing once I got there, that I’d forgotten what I was going to get. By the fifth [...]

With four days left in the Hunger Challenge, I decided Wednesday was the day I would break out the fruit. My plan? A peanut butter sandwich, like every other day this week, but this time with sliced apples in the mix. I made my sandwich, sliced up my apple, and started cooking the rest of [...]

When I got up Tuesday morning, I discovered one pleasant side effect of this whole operation: In two days, I had already lost a pound. I’m not doing this for vanity’s sake, and I recognize that if I return to my $12-cocktail ways promptly upon wrapping up the week, I’m not going to maintain my [...]

On Sunday night, I dreamt of deconstructed corned beef hash. This may not make any sense to anyone else. After all, isn’t corned beef hash already deconstructed? And yet, you’re going to have to go with me on this, because it was my dream, and my breakfast that I ordered, only, in the dream, to [...]