Blogging Out Hunger: So, I Got Stop & Shop To Do Their Part, Now It's Your Turn!!!

CLOSING OUT AT: 209 COMMENTS = $209.00 RAISED AS OF 2/28/09!!!  THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PARTICIPATING!!!

Stop & Shop will donate $1 for each comment (up to $300) to the Community Food bank of New Jersey!!!

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Last week, over 100 of my blogging friends and I got together and blogged about the This Bank Can't Fail campaign (spearheaded by my blogging friend and fellow Jersey Girl Deborah Smith of JerseyBites.com) to Blogging Out Hunger on behalf of The Community Food Bank of New Jersey and families in need across the garden state.

Growing up ours was no stranger to hunger.

Okay, let's be honest, what's the diff -- what about the rest of the year -- what's so special about blogging and who listens to Mommybloggers, anyway?

[bites lower lip]

Well, I asked my friends at Stop & Shop if they would like to help sponsor This Full House with a call out for donations in support of Blogging Out Hunger and they seemed to feel that it's, you know, a pretty good idea.

Aaaand, here's the good part, there's a way you (yes, YOU!) oh, savvy Internets, can help.

How?

[grin]

Why, by doing what you do best...of course!!!

Just so you know, Stop & Shop is actually making a pretty significant donation to the New Jersey Food Bank this holiday season. Its Food For Friends campaign raised more than $1 million dollars which is being distributed to 300 local hunger relief organizations throughout the Northeast -- the New Jersey Food bank receives about $74,500.

Stop & Shop gets the value of supporting bloggers (like, helping to make the New Jersey Moms Blog Launch Party a great success and sponsoring this Thanksgiving giveaway) and they're willing to help a Mommyblogger out this time, too.

How?

By helping me to continue to spread the word about the desperate need that The Community Food Bank of New Jersey is in due to the increased demands being put on New Jersey food pantries.

Aaaand?

Well, here's where you (yes, YOU!) come in.  All you have to do is a leave a comment -- like, telling us what's your plan on dealing with this cuh-ray-zee holiday week, or something as simple as, you know, what's for dinner -- and Stop & Shop will donate $1.00 and are more than ready to write a check (for up to $300.00) to The Community Food Bank of New Jersey!!!

I know, 300 comments (just who do I think I am, Dooce) it's a tall order -- so, please, feel free to share (like, Twitter, Digg, Kirtsy, Stumble this blog post) and help spread a little Christmas/Hannukah Mojo!

Why?

Because nice matters, hunger sucks and Stop & Shop knows we care...DAMMIT!!!

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Comments

[TheAngelForever]

We have meals set for the week, including Chinese food Thursday night. A tradition in the Jewish community ;)

Best wishes for great success with this. I will RT for you and already Stumbled.

[Veep Veep]

Darlin'
I plan on eating alot after making alot and then eating some more. Then the day after, I plan on eating pie for breakfast. A repeat of Thanksgiving.
Feel free to oink at me the next time you see me.

[Cathy]

Hooray for Stop & Shop!

[Erica Cosgrove]

Good luck with Blogging Out Hunger. We're trying to keep it simple this year and not overeat. I feel terrible that so many people are going hungry in the U.S. and around the world.

[Beeb Ashcroft]

What a wonderful idea!

My plans for this week: bake goodies, make gift baskets full of homemade treats, and enjoy time with friends and family!

[Leticia- Tech Savvy Mama]

My parents are visiting and they have appointed themselves as being in charge of meals. Hooray! Happy holidays and thanks for Blogging Out Hunger!!!

[Linsey K / KrolikLegal]

Great job on getting involved!

[heidi]

how can I not leave a comment to help the hungry. We've decided to do a mini food buffet. mini pizzas, mini quiche, meatballs, and cookies of course.

[feener]

this is great. i would like to say i love stop and shop - love them. i am not sure how i am surviving the holidays BUT i did make thumbprint cookies for the first time and they were yum. today i am going to make the oreo truffle s i keep reading about.

[Chefdruck]

good for you and good for Stop and Shop to help out the NJ Food Bank!

[Deborah Smith]

This is so great Liz. You know I'm on it. I'll Twitter and Facebook it. I'll also send the link to the PR company so they let the FoodBank know what you're doing.

Great job.
Deb Smith
JerseyBites.com

[John]

Here's another dollar.

We have the seven fishes dinner for Christmas Eve at the in-laws coming up.

We also have extra baby formula that we plan to give to the local food bank in Lacey Twp.

[Jo]

I'm here from seeing this on Twitter! Nice job :)

[Joe]

Congratulations on an excellent idea, Liz! What's great about the idea is that this does not personally benefit any of us, rather the end benefit of this campaign are our thousands of fellow New Jerseyans who are in need of help this holiday season.

And if they can't rely on their fellow Garden Staters, then who can you rely on in this world!?

[Elle]

Isn't Stop & Shop great? Christmas Eve will be a casual affair, with my husband braving the newly fallen 2 feet of snow to grill some stuff. Christmas Day will be a ham dinner.

Heading off to retweet!

[Annie]

Just home from Stop & Shop in fact! Another dollar in the pot...

[patsyk]

Fantastic! This week will be a well-planned attempt at getting each part of our Hanukkah dinner made in advance so I am not a complete nut next Saturday when the whole NJ side of our family arrives at our house!

Happy Holidays!

[David McDuff]

Good work. Way to support the local community and fight hunger, all in one.

[Lynette {Radio}]

Cha-ching! Here's my $1! We celebrate Wigilia on Christmas Eve, and for the first time are having it at my house this year! Talk about pressure! It's worth it though, having the whole family over, and then not having to drive home late to get the kiddies in bed for Christmas Day!

[Joe B]

This sure makes me proud to be a loyal Stop and Shop customer.
I'm going to have dinner with my sister on Christmas. She traditionally makes pasta with my great grandmother's recipe for the gravy.

[Joey Novick]

Well, you know what they say, another comment, another dollar!

[Joey Novick]

Is that what they say?

[Joey Novick]

Yup!

[Doug Haslam]

Good luck with this, and I'm helping spread the word!

and good on Stop & Shop for stepping up for this!

[kendra]

That's pretty awesome of Stop and Shop to do this, nice job!