Edmonds Food Bank

You may have seen that SNAP changes are having ripple effects across the food safety net. Here is how it has impacted our food bank.

SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) has been in the headlines a lot over the last year, so what has changed?

Empty Bowl Season is here! There are a number of ways you can support those in our community experiencing food insecurity this year:

1. Attend Empty Bowl on September 24th at Edmonds Yacht Club. Tickets are on sale on August 5th at 10am for $150 each.

2. Purchase a raffle ticket! Raffle tickets are $20 each and put you in the drawing to win a suite for 24 people to a 2027 Seattle Mariners game as well as tons of other great gift cards and experiences from local businesses.

3. Join us at Glazed & Amazed for our Empty Bowl Paint Party! On August 20th from 6:30-8:30 we will be painting bowls together to be chosen by our Empty Bowl attendees at the fundraising event.

We have a BIG goal this year: to raise $300,000 to go towards purchasing food and keeping our operations running!

See our website for more details on all of this! edmondsfoodbank.org/events.

Continuing our learning about SNAP (Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program) this week!

This week we on social are talking about SNAP!

🚐 The DSHS Mobile Office is at the food bank today helping answer questions about SNAP!
📰 News outlets (including USDA data) continues to show us that more folks are losing access to benefits.

Let's learn more about SNAP together this week.

We are experiencing a website outage. To our customers working to place an order, keep trying back! Remember you have until Tuesday morning at 9am to place a food order with the Edmonds Food Bank! We are so sorry for the inconvenience!

Double your fresh produce saving at Safeway!

Spend $10 on qualifying fruits and vegetables with SNAP at Safeway and receive a $10 Produce Match coupon to use on your next shopping trip. Find the coupon on your receipt or clip in the for U app.

Thank you to Neave, one of our wonderful volunteers who wrote this for our weekly volunteer newsletter last week.

If you aware of World Central Kitchen, you may also be aware of the chef behind it’s vision - José Andrés.

I just finished Andrés’ book Change the Recipe. It is both a memoir and a call to action for people, like us at EFB, that care about food insecurity. Growing up in Spain and traveling around the world as a young chef, Andrés, pursued his love of feeding people. But is was an earthquake in Haiti that drove him to add to his passions feeding people in crisis. He, like food banks across the world, look for simple and innovative ways to deliver hungry people the food they need. The book is easy to read and would make a good family book to discuss at the dinner table. It even includes a few recipes that can be easily cooked in a microwave by an inspired young chef. Happy reading and feeding!

Whenever there’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there - John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

All of our volunteers tonight at our Volunteer Appreciation Picnic 🥹❤️ Thank you to the hundereds of community members who keep our operations running each week!! We love these folks so much.