{"id":13804,"date":"2019-07-04T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=13804"},"modified":"2019-06-27T15:05:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T19:05:15","slug":"free-time-casserole-time-cooking-up-a-meal-for-our-daily-bread-or-your-local-soup-kitchen-to-help-the-hungry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/04\/free-time-casserole-time-cooking-up-a-meal-for-our-daily-bread-or-your-local-soup-kitchen-to-help-the-hungry\/","title":{"rendered":"Free time = casserole time! Cooking up a meal for Our Daily Bread or your local soup kitchen to help the hungry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Emily Carter, Vegetarian Resource Group\nIntern <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Daily Bread, a meal program hosted by\nCatholic Charities, serves more than a quarter of a million meals to people\nexperiencing hunger across Baltimore, Maryland. They serve hot lunch 365 days a\nyear to anywhere between 500 and 1000+ people. Additionally, they offer\nbreakfast to seniors and people with disabilities and dinner to men enrolled in\nthe Christopher Place Employment Academy. The organization relies on volunteers\nto make and serve food every day, with a greater need for volunteers to serve\nbreakfast from 7 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. and dinner for Christopher Place from 5 p.m.\nto 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is opportunity for people who want to get\ninvolved in a more indirect and possibly less time-consuming way by cooking and\ndonating meals. Our Daily Bread has a casserole program that is the backbone of\nthe entire initiative. Anyone can make and donate a casserole! Casserole\nrecipes can be found on the Our Daily Bread\u2019s website: https:\/\/www.catholiccharities-md.org\/services\/our-daily-bread-hot-meal-program\/#790c890569b87ce66<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the list of recipes one can make, 3 are\nvegan, and were created by the VRG\u2019s food service advisor Chef Nancy Berkoff,\nRD! They are all fairly quick to make, depending on how many casseroles you\nwish to donate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last weekend, VRG intern Amy Dell and myself\nmade two sweet potato and black bean casseroles using a recipe on the Our Daily\nBread website. It was very simple and only took us about an hour and a half to\nchop all the peppers, onions, and garlic and get the sweet potatoes fork-tender.\n(The time would have been shorter had we had a bigger pot to combine both\nbatches). The meal smelled delicious, and inspired me to make something similar\nfor myself! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Homelessness and hunger linger everywhere as a\nsilent enemy. Philanthropy may not be the best way towards food equality, but\nit is one of the tools we have as individuals to help create a world that\naligns a little more with our philosophies. So if you are feeling inspired or\nhave no evening\/weekend plans, get some ingredients and casserole dishes and\ncook up a storm! Even if you are not in Baltimore you can still participate by\ndonating to your local feeding site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For another example of vegan cooking for the needy, see: https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2015issue4\/2015_issue4_vegetarian_action.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For information on interning at The Vegetarian Resource Group, go to: https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/index.php<\/a>

To support The Vegetarian Resource Group outreach, donate at www.vrg.org\/donate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Emily Carter, Vegetarian Resource Group Intern Our Daily Bread, a meal program hosted by Catholic Charities, serves more than a quarter of a million meals to people experiencing hunger across Baltimore, Maryland. They serve hot lunch 365 days a year to anywhere between 500 and 1000+ people. Additionally, they offer breakfast to seniors and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13806,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13804\/revisions\/13806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}