Urge your Representative to vote YES on the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (S. 3307)

Hi everyone,

This morning I received this message in my inbox and it was too urgent to ignore:

The child nutrition bill will go to the House floor for a vote on Wednesday (Dec. 1). This critical bill will increase children’s opportunities for healthy meals and is an important first step to tackling both child hunger and childhood obesity.

However, it remains uncertain whether the bill has the votes needed for passage, and your help is needed to ensure that it does.

This is our last chance to get a child nutrition bill this year. Please take these two steps right now to make sure all children have the healthy start they need:

• Call your Representative. Dial 1-877-698-8228 and enter your zip code to be connected directly to your Representative’s office. Deliver this simple message:
  Congress must not adjourn without passing the child nutrition bill. Please vote yes for the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (S. 3307)!


• Forward this action alert. Share this action alert with partner organizations and colleagues and ask them to call Congress.

We have one last chance to make our voices heard. You can help push the child nutrition bill over the goal line by calling your Representative today!

Thank you!

ELCA Washington Office

Recipe du jour: Bok choy and Chicken Flavored Veggie Soup

The name is a bit long, not too catchy, but the taste is aMAHzing! Serves 2 hungry gremlins or 2 cute, cuddly creatures.

Ingredients

• 2-3 teaspoons of Orrington Farms Chicken Flavored soup base (This stuff in a small jar contains 91 servings! And it is well priced!)
• 2 carrots, chopped
• 2 celery stalks, chopped
• 2 stalks of Mexican green onions, chopped
• 1 stalk of bok choy, chopped, or 2 stalks, whatever your preference!
• tiny handful of French Fried Onion's (for garnish)
• 1/2 small saucepan of cold, filtered water

Cooking Utensils and Cookware

• strainer
• spoon
• knife
• cutting board
• small saucepan

Directions

Place 2-3 teaspoons of Orrington Farms Chicken Flavored soup base in saucepan. Fill half way with cold, filtered water. Put on high heat on stove top. This broth will boil in a few minutes, time dependent on altitude of your location.

Wash vegetables and chop on a cutting board. Add chopped vegetables to boiling broth. Turn heat down to medium-high or medium and let simmer to slight boil for about 10 minutes, or until you think it's done and ready to consume.

Serve in a bowl and garnish with a tiny handful of French's Original French Fried Onions.

Slurp up and your tummy will feel happy.

Happy Eating,

Jennifer

Recipe du jour: Sweet n' Spicy Tuna Salad

This is my very own (original) sexy tuna dish that makes me smile. And it tastes deli sh! Serves 1 hungry beast or 2 mild appetites.

Ingredients

• 1 can of tuna, chunk light in water
• 1 sweet gherkin (it's like a pickle, but tinier and sweeter), cut up in little bits but not diced
• 1 stalk of celery, cut up in little bits but not diced
• 1 squeeze of a bottle of Horseradish sauce
• 1 squeeze of a bottle spicy mustard
• 1 squeeze of a bottle of Sriracha hot sauce (a chili hot sauce, go easy on this one if you're a wuss)
• a couple of leaves of red leafed lettuce
• 1 Roma tomato, sliced
• salt
• pepper
• rosemary dried
• garlic flakes dried
• a couple of saltine crackers

Cooking Utensils and Cookware

• can opener
• spoon
• knife
• cutting board

Directions

Cut up the celery and sweet gherkin. Add can of drained tuna. If you've never drained canned tuna then all you have to do is open it like 90% of it with a can opener and while holding the lid, turn upside down and drain the water over the sink. Next, add drained tuna to the chopped gherkin and celery. Sprinkle salt, pepper, dried rosemary and garlic to taste. Mix everything together.

Rinse and drain red leafed and Roma tomato. Set aside of a plate for serving.

Now, add the wet ingredients to the tuna: horseradish sauce, spicy mustard, Sriracha, and mix everything so all of the tasty ingredients become one. Ooh yeah, baby!

Next, spoon the tuna stuff on top of the plate of lettuce and tomato. Crunch some Saltine crackers on top.

Yummy! Now, shut up and eat it, people!

With Sweet Sweet Love,

Jennifer