Author: Annelies

Hunger Challenge Day 5: Green Smoothie Recipe

Beck and I are living off of $4.72 per day per person this week as part of the SF Food Bank’s Hunger Challenge. This includes  preparation and time… With a restricted budget, there are foods that don’t make it in and there are cravings. I’m blogging my ramblings of the challenge this week. __________________________________ Fatigue… Continue reading Hunger Challenge Day 5: Green Smoothie Recipe

Hunger Challenge Day 4: Hummus Tostadas

Beck and I are living off of $4.72 per day per person this week as part of the SF Food Bank’s Hunger Challenge. This includes  preparation and time and by midweek some serious cravings. I’m blogging my ramblings of the challenge this week. ____________________________________________________ Support What do you do when you are in a dire… Continue reading Hunger Challenge Day 4: Hummus Tostadas

Hunger Challenge Day 3: Spinach Quiche Cups

Nathan and I are living off of $4.72 per day per person this week as part of the SF Food Bank’s Hunger Challenge. This includes  preparation and time… I’m blogging my ramblings of the challenge this week. _____________________________ Cravings Sometimes, there’s an itch you really want to scratch and you can’t quite scratch it. A spot… Continue reading Hunger Challenge Day 3: Spinach Quiche Cups

Hunger Challenge Day 2: The things that didn’t make it & a recipe

Beck and I are living off of $4.72 per day per person this week as part of the SF Food Bank’s Hunger Challenge. This includes  preparation and time… _________________________________________________________ The things that didn’t make it Setting up the menu for a week of living off of $4.72 per day really does cut out the dross.… Continue reading Hunger Challenge Day 2: The things that didn’t make it & a recipe

Hunger Challenge Day 1: Time & Shopping List

Beck and I are living off of $4.72 per day per person this week as part of the SF Food Bank’s Hunger Challenge. This includes  preparation and time… ____________________________________________ Time Preparing to nourish yourself and your loved ones on a restricted budget takes time. Trolling the SF Food Bank FAQs brought me to their suggestion… Continue reading Hunger Challenge Day 1: Time & Shopping List

Hunger Challenge: Preparation & Day 1

        The San Francisco and Marin Food Banks issued a hunger challenge for September 11 – 17, 2011. The challenge is simple: each person signs up to live off a food stamp budget for one week at $4.72 per person per day.  On the SF Food Bank site, they share that 1… Continue reading Hunger Challenge: Preparation & Day 1

“254” by Emily Dickinson

Back in Sunday school class many moons ago, we memorized Bible verses. That simple act of committing words to memory acted as both a game and challenge to my budding brain. If you didn’t go to Sunday school or attend church, how did memorization play its part in your life growing up? What about now?… Continue reading “254” by Emily Dickinson

Chanteuse: What the fach?

            Fach. Contrary to how this four-letter word looks and sounds, it is not a curse (albeit some opera singers might feel otherwise). Literally, it is the German word for “compartment” or “shelf,” and it is how singers’ voice ranges and types get classified – think Bass, Tenor, Alto, Soprano.… Continue reading Chanteuse: What the fach?

If these doors could speak- a photo essay & a challenge

When the devastation of Hurricane Katrina unleashed its fury upon the city of New Orleans, I watched on like most of you did, to the TV reports and the flood of articles inundating the web. The same convention center I had visited for a coffee and tea show mere months before became home and unruly… Continue reading If these doors could speak- a photo essay & a challenge

When in Philadelphia

The city of brotherly love opened up its arms to this food-lover. As my first visit, I didn’t know what to expect cuisine-wise outside of it being the home of the cheesesteak and associated with cream cheese. While I didn’t actually visit Pat’s or Geno’s to throw my name into the hat of people with… Continue reading When in Philadelphia