BRING THE HOPE

Feed Granola -- Feeds Hope

 

Have you tried FEED Granola yet? I have and I like it. It tastes good and it's heart healthy. But, the thing I like most about this company is its FEED Hope program.

The owners have enjoyed some success with their product line, so they've started giving back. The FEED Hope program includes support for breast cancer research,education and patient services. And it also encourages FEED employees and friends to volunteer and provide support to causes that are important to them.

If you have ideas for an event in your community that FEED could support, the company wants to hear from you. The owners ask that you email them with any good ideas at one@feedgranola.com. They might say no, but you can't win if you don't ask.

Good luck. And cheers to the FEED Granola guys for bringing the hope along with some tasty food.

Hope is a Warm Chocolate Chip Cookie

A few years back, I was thinking of opening a cafe. The place was going to be called Happy Belly and two of the featured items were going to be the muffuletta sandwich and warm chocolate chip cookies. I wrote up some plans and even spent a few days shadowing the owners of a popular deli based in Kansas City called D'Bronx. But, I ultimately decided that I probably liked the idea of starting a cafe more than I would actually like the work. So, I put my crazy notion on the shelf.

That said, I have a real appreciation for anyone who can make a great muffuletta sandwich or a killer chocolate chip cookie. That's one of the reasons why I really enjoyed yesterday's article in The New York Times (click here) regarding the "Quest for the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie."

If you take up the quest, keep me in mind. I'm not much of a baker, but I'm an above average taste tester. Good food brings the hope.

"A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand." -- Author Unknown

"The ideal chocolate chip cookie is the one someone else is eating." -- Davud, Hartford (from NYT post)

"Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first." -- Ernestine Ulmer

"Research tells us 14 out of any 10 individuals likes chocolate." -- Sandra Boynton

A Pint of Hope

A story out of the United Kingdom last week provides irrefutable evidence that there are many ways to bring the hope. Reuters filed a story with a London dateline about Mike Hammond who was reportedly, "bombarded with offers after advertising in his village post office for someone to accompany his 88-year-old father Jack on visits to a southern England pub from a nursing home."

The son simply wanted his dear old dad to be able to visit the neighborhood pub. According to Reuters, Hammond "offered the lucky winner 7 pounds ($14) an hour plus expenses and, after sifting through the applicants, decided on a job-share. Drinking duties are to be divided between a retired doctor and a former military man."

Hammond said that he's doing this to give his dad "some of his old life back." He'll join his dad twice a week and the job-share boys will cover three other visits to the pub. Cheers to that.

Or, as Dave Barry put it, "without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza."