Donuts for a Difference

We love the Freestore Foodbank and tomorrow is the Hunger Walk! We talked about running it, trained for 3 days and decided walking is fine by us. Jack still says he wants to run...


Nicholas and Jack decided to have a donut sale to raise money for the hungry in Cincinnati and to make the deal even sweeter, we made the donuts ourselves.


Here are the boys at 7:00 this morning.

And our first batch into the oven (Double Chocolate Glazed)

We asked our neighbors to place orders earlier this week and eight different families participated! We made three different kinds.

Double Chocolate Glazed. The recipe can be found here.  

Maple Bacon. The recipe can be found here.

Vanilla Glazed. The recipe can be found here.

Then the boys went with their daddy and delivered them door-to-door.  

We raised $139 for the Freestore Foodbank! That is over 400 meals for those who are hungry right here in Cincinnati. Wow! Thanks to everyone who participated AND those who wanted donuts but were to far away for our donut delivery services!

Jack's Reflection: I loved it!My favorite part was delivering the donuts. Because I get to see knew people that I never ever get to see. Because the hungry gets more food than they usually do! My favorite donut flavor was the chocolate chocolate.

Nicholas' Reflction: It was cool because we got to help the poor and we gave other people breakfast. I'm happy to help the Freestore Foodbank. My favorite donut was vanilla.

We are all excited to do the Hunger Walk tomorrow!

Day of Service

Before Nicholas and Jack talk about their experiences volunteering for the Freestore Foodbank I want to share with you a couple of startling statistics.  In the area served by the Freestore Foodbank in Cincinnati, Ohio there are over 92,600 children who are food insecure, meaning they don't know where their next meal will be coming from. That is 21% of the area's kids or 1 out of 5.  The Freestore Foodbank provides a program called Power Packs which provides 4500 children with food to tie them over from Friday after school to Monday morning.

Over the Christmas break they participated in Holiday Opps. Today we did the Day of Service in conjunction with Martin Luther King, Jr Day by participating in the 6th Annual Pack-a-thon on Fountain Square.

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?” -Martin Luther King, Jr.







Nicholas:

What did you do on your Martin Luther King Jr Day off from school? I  volunteered for the Freestore Foodbank.

Why do you like to volunteer for the Freestore Foodbank?
Because I can help other people by giving them food.

What does the Freestore Foodbank do for kids?
Today we helped them so that they had food on the weekends.

If you could do any type of volunteering what would you do?
I would help other people by giving shoes to kids who don't have any.





Jack:

What did you do at the Pack-a-thon today?
I helped people have more food so they can live and survive longer.

What was your favorite part?
I don't know, everything was my favorite.

What was your least favorite part?
Breaking the cardboard box.

What do you think Martin Luther King Jr would think about the work that you did today?
Very good and (he would be) proud.



 
Special thank you to Panera Bread for the coffee, hot chocolate and "sweet treats" after all of our hard work! AND Aunt Korie for the super fun company and all of HER hard work.