Here’s a little more about the Bread Art Project from their media kit:

The Bread Art Project was created by the Grain Foods Foundation to help increase awareness of the growing hunger problem in our country. In 2009, visitors to breadartproject.com created more than 25,000 pieces of Bread Art and helped raise more than $25,000 for Feeding America.

This year’s goal is to raise even more for Share Our Strength®, the leading national organization working to end childhood hunger in America by 2015. Share Our Strengthweaves together a network of community groups, activists and food programs to identify kids who face hunger and ensure that they have nutritious food where they live, learn and play. Funds raised through programs like The Bread Art Project support Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign to end childhood hunger in America by 2015.

The Grain Foods Foundation will donate $50,000 to Share Our Strength plus an additional $1 for each qualifying Bread Art submission received at breadartproject.com now through June 30, 2010.

What does your donation provide?
o $1 can help provide three nutritious meals to a hungry child
o $25 can help feed one child three healthy meals every day for a month
o $50 can help connect one child with healthy meals throughout the summer
o $100 can help provide 25 children facing hunger backpacks full of healthy food to feed them and their families over the weekend
o $200 can help buy grocery bags of healthy food for 50 families in need
o $500 can help reach 12 low income families with a life changing, 6-week nutritious cooking and food budgeting course
o $1,000 can help expand a summer feeding program to reach hundreds more children facing hunger during the summer months

Want to help? Go to their website and click “workshop”. A piece of bread will appear that you can decorate online. After you have decorated your bread you click on “save art” and enter some basic information about yourself and you are done. It’s that easy. A few minutes of your time spent coloring will give one child three nutritious meals. Below is the piece that I made for their gallery.

My Bread Art

I hope you will join me in providing food for those that are hungry. If you would like to give more than a dollar you can go to their giving page and find out how to do so. You can also easily donate $5 to Share Our Strength by texting the word “SHARE” to 20222 on your cell phone. At the time of this writing the amount of total donations (according to the Bread Art Project website)  is $40,789—that is a lot of artwork!

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We invite you to join this community of couponers nationwide by giving a part of your stockpile away to a homeless shelter, food pantry, or a friend in need during the week of May 2-8!

Feel free to share comments or pictures on Facebook as you give of your abundance to those in need.

May 8 is also National Stamp Out Hunger Day. Check with your local Post Office to find out if they are participating!

I really want to encourage to to participate in some way big or small. Even a sack of groceries by your mailbox on Saturday, May 8th will make a good difference.

To see what I am donating visit me at Coupon Teacher.

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As long as you follow the rules for purchase with each coupon, you can use more than one of the exact same coupon. For example, if you have a coupon for $1/1 product X, you may use 1 coupon for each product X you buy. If the coupon is for $1/2 product X, you may use 1 coupon for every 2 products you buy. There are no limits to the number of coupons you can use to stock up on your favorites. However, each store will set its own limits on coupon use, such as only doubling 1 like coupon per visit or limiting the number of like coupons you can use at one time. Talk to the manager at the stores you frequent for their guidelines.

When your stockpile begins to grow, the problem is no longer how to afford the food you need but where to put it. Having too much food is a problem many people would never even dream of. If you are purchasing multiples each week when the items are on sale, you may actually run into this.

First, donate what you won’t use! There are so many people hungry and it doesn’t have to be that way. Second, many perishable items are freezable so you can store them longer—bread, meat, cheese and butter, to name a few. Third, convert a linen closet to an extras pantry or use storage totes for canned goods. Linens can easily be stored in the rooms they will be used—slip tablecloths in a kitchen drawer, keep towels in the bathroom, and store your extra sheets under the mattress they will be used on.

Shop smart, then get creative to keep your shelves stocked inexpensively.

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Some nutritional suggestions and constantly needed items include:

• Canned protein choices: meats, chicken, tuna, beans, etc.
• Canned vegetables
• Canned fruit
• Canned meals: stews, soups, chili
• Pasta sauces and Canned tomatoes
• Peanut Butter
• Macaroni & Cheese, Pasta, Rice
• Cereals: boxed and hot items (such as oatmeal)
• Paper Goods: Toilet Paper, towels, and tissue
• Baby: diapers larger than newborn and wipes
• Personal care: toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, deodorant
• Baking supplies: flour, sugar, complete mixes

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