WHO: DC-area families are participating in Shopping Matters tours on Food Day, hosted by Share Our Strength® at the new Whole Foods Market in Foggy Bottom. Tours will be led by Chef Greg Silverman and Whole Foods Market Healthy Eating Specialist Amanda Louden. Media is invited to attend and required to RSVP to lhosny@strength.org.
WHAT: Shopping Matters is an interactive grocery store tour that helps families on a limited budget make healthy choices at the supermarket. Each tour covers key shopping skills like comparing unit prices, reading nutrition labels, identifying whole grains and buying various forms of fruits and vegetables.
Share Our Strength and Whole Foods Market Foggy Bottom will run two Shopping Matters tours to celebrate Food Day. Food Day is an effort by the Center for Science in the Public Interest to get Americans from all walks of life talking about healthy, affordable food.
WHEN: Monday, October 24, 2011 (Food Day); tours depart at 9:30 A.M. and 11:30 A.M. and last for one hour.
WHERE: Whole Foods Market Foggy Bottom; 2201 Eye Street NW, Washington, D.C.
WHY: Nearly one in five children in America struggles with hunger. They live in families that lack the means to regularly put enough nutritious food on the table for everyone to live healthy, active lives. Share Our Strength partners with culinary and nutrition experts across the country to offer Shopping Matters tours to help families at risk of hunger stretch their food dollar in the healthiest way possible.
About Share Our Strength's Cooking Matters'
Share Our Strength's Cooking Matters' empowers families at risk of hunger with the skills, knowledge and confidence to make healthy and affordable meals. With the help of volunteer culinary and nutrition experts, course participants learn how to select nutritious and low-cost ingredients and prepare them in ways that provide the best nourishment possible to their families. Cooking Matters is nationally sponsored by the ConAgra Foods® Foundation and Walmart. Shopping Matters is generously supported by Walmart. Since 1993, Cooking Matters has grown to serve more than 12,000 families each year across the country, helping them learn how to eat better on a budget. For more information, visit CookingMatters.org.
About Share Our Strength
Share Our Strength, a national nonprofit, is ending childhood hunger in America by connecting children with the nutritious food they need to lead healthy, active lives. Through its No Kid Hungry® Campaign--a national effort to end childhood hunger in America by 2015--Share Our Strength ensures children in need are enrolled in effective federal nutrition programs, invests in community organizations fighting hunger, teaches families how to cook healthy meals on a budget, builds public-private partnerships to end hunger, both nationally and at the state level, and calls upon a broad cross-section of the American public to make ending childhood hunger a national priority. Visit Strength.org to get involved in the No Kid Hungry Campaign.
Contact:
Laura Hosny
Cell: 202-306-0805
lhosny@strength.org
/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- Oct. 19, 2011/
SOURCE Share Our Strength
