Three organizations came together this fall in an effort to help HomeFront stock their food pantry. Linda Martin, owner of Flutter Boutique in Pennington, collected food and donations the month of September through her project Fashion Feed to help feed those in need. We at Christine’s Hope for Kids matched her monetary collection. We then marched off to Pennington Quality Market where, with the help of the entire Rothwell family and staff, we held a food challenge for our CHFK community service club from Hopewell Valley Central High School.
This is where it gets interesting!
We divided the kids into five teams of three, and gave each team $150.00 to shop with. They could only purchase only non-perishable items, keeping in mind they were buying for a family of five. They were given a time limit of 30 minutes. We started the clock. PQM called off the time every ten minutes. The team with the most amount of items in their basket at the end, won!
The lesson was to show them how hard it is to budget to feed a family of five. They were frugal, they read every price sticker and in the end they were all thrilled to see how much they had collectively purchased.
All of the food was donated to the Homefront Food Bank. We thank the Rothwell family for their generous donation of boxes of diapers to go along with this challenge and for their support of this project; and Linda Martin and Flutter who spearheaded this whole idea. We also thank our awesome, dynamic, super terrific Community service club at HoVal. We were honored to be part of this. There is no better feeling than that of helping those in need.
