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Child Hunger Ends Here – with us. With you. With me. With young music stars, too. #ChildHunger

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1 in 5 children in the United States of America suffers from food insecurity. That’s over 17 million children.  You know all those commercials we see, and infomercials, pamphlets and ads that come to our mailboxes?  All those starving children across the world?  They are here, at home, as well.  That’s not acceptable to me.  It infuriates me.  Unfortunately, I do not have a wallet nor the bank account as large as my heart so I have to find creative ways to make a difference and try to help stop this food insecurity.  Child Hunger Ends Here, a campaign started by ConAgra Foods to get rid of child hunger in America,  is a really great way for the “rest” of us to be able to give back, to help others.

This is the fourth year for Child Hunger Ends Here.  This year, CHEH is working with some top musical artists moms (like me!), kids and employees to donate up to 3 million meals.  Fill a Heart is a song meant to inspire- and has a version sung by Carly Rae Jepsen, Tori Kelly, Amber Riley and Cody Simpson. You can download Cody Simpson and Amber Riley’s versions of Fill a Heart for FREE from Child Hunger Ends Here! These talented kids have given their time and talent to this cause in the hopes of inspiring other kids to get involved and help work to decrease child hunger.  Tori Kelly’s version will be available on iTunes 3/18 with proceeds going to CHEH.

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What can YOU do?  Well, you can do just what I do.  If you buy a ConAgra product, look for the big red push pin on the packaging.  There will be a code on that package that you can enter right over in my sidebar —->  OR, just below this paragraph.  It’s super easy.  It’ll cost you nothing but a few seconds of your time.  It WILL ask your zip code, and no, that’s not because they are going to come visit you.  Your codes entered can be sent to a food bank near to you so that you can help locally.  Isn’t that cool?  (Just so you know, you will be asked with each code to enter your zip code.  It’s an extra half second of time.)  It’s SO easy and takes almost no time.

Every time you enter an 8-digit product code at ChildHungerEndsHere.com, you also have the option to submit a zip code and give your local food bank a chance to receive the monetary equivalent of 80,000 meals from the total donations ConAgra Foods makes to Feeding America through the Child Hunger Ends Here program this year. If two million codes or more are entered, then the ten food banks nationwide with the most codes entered within their service area (based on zip codes) will each receive $10,000 (the equivalent of 80,000 meals) from ConAgra Foods to support the important work of feeding local children and their families.

There are over 151,000 kids going hungry in the state of Connecticut alone. We’re a smaller state.  That’s a lot.  I’m happy to say over 471,000 meals have already been donated as I write this since Child Hunger Ends Here began the 2013 campaign, but let’s get that number HIGHER!! Let’s hit 3 million!

If you are on Twitter, please join us from 1-2pm EST March 14 for a Twitter party discussing #ChildHunger and what we can do to help.  

 

This is a sponsored post with The Motherhood. Opinions are my own.

 

 

About Brett

I'm a 40 something lifestyle blogger living in Connecticut with my husband and our 3 kids, plus our two rescue pups. We love to hike, travel, play games, watch movies, and just be outside together! Having 3 active kids makes for a hectic schedule and I try to share content, recipes and other things that can help to make today's busy family life simpler, easier, or just plain more fun!

I started working full time at a local middle school in fall 2021 and some of my students are insistent that I am mean.

Comments

  2. Carla D. says

    I will definitely be looking for the big red push pink on ConAgra products. Too many kids go hungry.

  3. Bella Taul says

    This is so great. I have been sharing this on Twitter. There are too many hungry children. I knew there was a reason I have always loved Nestle besides their products!

  4. Lilia Kharabora says

    I Love this! I bought Peter Pan Peanut butter and thats where I discovered it at first! Happy to know I can enjoy Pot Pie and help as well 🙂

  5. Carolsue says

    I buy these products all the time — I will watch for this. I have never noticed it before.

  6. Priscilla Benavides says

    I save and enter to codes, I think it is the most generous thing a company can do too but it’s the consumer who decides if he or she will take action and follow through with the program!

  8. Mary D says

    We don’t buy processed foods but I’m still glad you brought this to my attention. It’s easy to have a “not in my backyard” attitude, unfortunately.

  10. Robyn Galloway says

    I buy conagra products all the time, I will be sure to look for the push pins. This is a really great cause!

  14. Darlene Jones-Nelson says

    I am glad that we have this program here in the United States. I know we have a lot of kids who suffer from being hungry.

  17. Debbie Welchert says

    What a great program to help our hungry children here in the United States. I will definitely be looking for the ChildHunger tags on ConAgra products.

  19. Mary Ann Knox says

    I am like you in that I want to help, but my bank account will not allow that. 🙁 But this program, that I didn’t know about until now, will allow me to do that. I will start buying more ConAgra products.

  24. Donna says

    If I buy any of the products, I will sure to look for the push pin. I don’t buy them much, but this is a great thing they are doing.

  27. Emilie M says

    Food insecurity is a serious issue, it is good to see anything that sheds light on it!

  28. Sarah B says

    Thanks for the info – I just bought some Blue Bonnet Margarine with that logo on it – I’ll have to go enter it now!

  31. JRFrugalMom says

    We live in a poor area, and fortunately our school offers food for the kids over the summer (even for those who do not go to summer school).

  33. Christina Jackson says

    Great info! Thanks for sharing, I love the link to local food banks as well.

  35. Sandy VanHoey says

    I’ve been going through some things I just bought today like Orville Redenbachers and Marie Callender’s but can’t find the darn red push code on either. Had I known before shopping, I would have looked for boxes with them on it. I will continue looking and will look forward to entering these codes soon. Thanks for the heads-up

  36. Michelle C says

    Great information, thanks for helping to spread the word about this important cause.

  37. Maria Iemma says

    It is so sad to think that children go to bed hungry in this country. We need to unite with the effort to end it. I will support ConAgra products to help in this effort

  42. amy jer says

    I would participate but we never buy processed foods. Everything (except pasta sauces and hard cheeses) are made from scratch. When you stop working to have a baby, gotta learn to live on less or else I’d be signed up for free meals!

    • queenb says

      We don’t buy a ton either- I usually combine coupons with a sale and donate it all 🙂

  48. Danielle @ We Have It All says

    This is such an awesome campaign because it’s an easy way to help – anyone can do this. I always feel guilty when I can’t donate money to the places in those commercials – but THIS is something I CAN do.

  49. md kennedy says

    I am not a huge fan of Big Ag, bit this is a great cause and I applaud them for supporting it. Now if only they would concentrate on cleaning up their agricultural practices…..

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