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• Taste of the Nation

  Fine dining and tasting events that help make sure no kid in America grows up hungry.

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• Great American Bake Sale

  A national campaign that mobilizes Americans to end childhood hunger by holding bake sales in their communities.

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• Great American Dine Out

  When you eat; they eat. Help end childhood hunger by dining out September 21 - 28. Learn all about it and how restaurants can get involved.

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• A Tasteful Pursuit

  A national touring dinner series that features the nation's top chefs taking their talents to the nation’s top culinary cities.

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• Operation Frontline

  A groundbreaking cooking-based nutrition education program that teaches families how to prepare healthy, tasty meals on a limited budget.

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Taste of the Nation a hit

Portsmouth Herald
dchoate@seacoastonline.com
June 19, 2008 6:00 AM

PORTSMOUTH — Taste of the Nation Portsmouth comes together every year to stop children from being hungry in America. It’s fitting that nobody leaves the event hungry, either. The 14th annual version of the event pulled in 800 people and $100,000 for Share Our Strength, aided by area restaurants, breweries, vineyards and other vendors. National director Vered Uziel said every dollar earned would go toward fighting hunger, and 80 percent of that money would stay local. She also praised the quality of the food and drink being served to the well-dressed hundreds who packed the white tents on the lawn of Strawbery Banke Museum by such local institutions as the Smuttynose Brewery and Pesce Blue. “We have a fabulous lineup,” Uziel said. “The chefs, the sponsors — it’s all incredible.” click here to read the entire story.

Taste of the Nation: Adult prom to end hunger

Portsmouth Herald
By Toby Hatchett
June 8, 2008 6:00 AM

The 14th annual Taste of the Nation happens at Strawbery Banke Museum on June 18. If you haven’t purchased your tickets, hurry. Only a few are left and this year may be the best one yet. Sixty top chefs and beer and wine purveyors will provide grand food and drink. This year, the band is from Boston, Soul City, with lots of horns and hugely danceable music. Jay McSharry, a Share Our Strength co-chairman of the event, said “this 12-piece band will make everyone dance!” This is just the fun part, however. The cause is the best of causes: fighting hunger and poverty in our area… click here to read the entire story.

Share Your Love: five course dinner benefits hunger relief

Portsmouth Herald
By Toby Hatchett
features@seacoastonline.com
January 30, 2008 6:00 AM

It’s a menu to die for. Better yet, it’s for a truly great cause. This annual Share Your Love dinner to benefit Operation Frontline will help the children in the community most in need.
The Share Our Strength Seacoast dinner will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 6 at Brazo Restaurant in Portsmouth. Tickets may be purchased at Brazo or online at www.tasteofthenation.org/Portsmouth… click here to read the entire story.

National honor for SOS

Portsmouth Herald
By Dan Tuohy
news@seacoastonline.com
November 23, 2006

PORTSMOUTH — A local hunger relief group won a big honor in the Big Easy.
Share Our Strength Seacoast earned a National Committee of the Year award when Share Our Strength chapters from around the country and Canada held their annual conference last month in New Orleans… click here to read the entire story.

Operation Frontline

A Strong Front Against Childhood Hunger

“I never used to eat very healthy because I never liked the food. But you have taught me how to make healthy foods that tastes good. I’ve started to pay more attention to what foods I eat and what my kids eat. Hopefully they will be eating healthier and making better food choices at a younger age than I did.”      Eating Right participant

These are the kinds of comments we commonly hear from graduates of Share Our Strength’s Operation Frontline, our groundbreaking nutrition-education program that connects families with food by teaching them how to prepare healthy, tasty meals on a limited budget.

Operation Frontline plays a critical role in Share Our Strength’s strategy to end childhood hunger. Here are some of the ways the program helps surround kids who are at risk of hunger with nutritious foods where they live, learn and play.

In many ways, Operation Frontline provides knowledge and skills that help surround kids at risk of hunger with healthy foods where they live, learn and play:

• Operation Frontline helps families with limited resources make healthy meals at home, using a wide variety of foods that are commonly available in stores and from emergency food providers.
• All Operation Frontline courses promote making the healthiest food choices possible, even with limited resources.
• Instructors teach lifelong cooking skills, practical nutrition information and food budgeting strategies that participants can use right away and take into the future.
• Adult and teen participants receive groceries at the end of each class to practice the recipes they’ve learned at home.
• Courses include information on available federal, state and local assistance programs.
• Operation Frontline classes are popular with afterschool, summer food, Head Start and WIC programs.