Before you complain (again) about price gouging at your favorite pay-by-the-pound salad bar, do us a favor: Skip it. Pack your own lunch--or don't eat one at all--and use your money to help feed the thousands of hungry New Yorkers through the Skip Lunch Fight Hunger campaign.
This annual one-day fundraiser--held this year on Wednesday, May 6--raises money for City Harvest, the food-rescue organization that assists the 350,000 local children (and their families) who otherwise don't get enough to eat.
Participating is a breeze: Gather a team of coworkers or friends, then register your group at skiplunch.org. City Harvest will send you a kit containing paper lunch bags to distribute on May 6. Team members will fill the bags with donations: Just $10 can help feed seven children for a week. Feeling generous? $50 can help feed three children for the entire summer. Can't organize a team in time? Make an individual donation online.
Last year, more than 15,000 New Yorkers raised over $500,000 in the time it takes us to make a Chipotle run. This year--with more families in need than ever--the target is $600,000. We challenge you, Tasting Table readers, to raise the bar even higher.
