Going to college is heavy on the pocketbook regardless of your income bracket. With a nationwide cultural and economic shift towards attending college more and more people are attending college.

Easter means bunnies, chocolate, and eggs galore. But after the eggs have been dyed and hunted, what then? Here are some fun recipes for your 4 dozen boiled eggs when all the fun is over. Deviled eggs! You’ve got a bunch of beautifully colored eggs, so you might as...

March is Arkansas School Breakfast Month, and the Arkansas No Kid Hungry campaign is focusing attention on the importance of schools making breakfast part of the school day so all of our kids start the day focused and ready to learn. Many students have a hard time...

I recently had the opportunity to attend a conference in New Orleans. Entitled “Ending Hunger Through Citizen Service,” it was hosted by the New York City Coalition Against Hunger (NYCCAH), a national anti-hunger coalition based in New York City that, while beginning...

At this time of year, the emphasis is on joy, peace, community, family and giving. We would like to remind you of the consequences of that giving…the good things that your giving makes possible. A portion of the funds donated to the Alliance each year are used to...

Wouldn't  it be nice if there were a nationwide day of giving….one special day devoted to supporting those organizations devoted to service? Well there is such a day: December 2nd, #GivingTuesday.  After all the in-store and online shopping, millions of people will be...

WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) is a federal program, funded by a grant given to WIC State Agencies. This allows for only a certain amount of funding each year, as opposed to SNAP benefits where Congress sets aside enough funds for all eligible individuals to...

We on the Arkansas No Kid Hungry Cooking Matters team do a lot of reading on various topics related to food and food policy. From time to time we will be sharing some of our favorites so they can become your favorites, too. Enjoy a little light and tasty reading!...

Recent Research on Food Security and its Connection to Health and Well-Being from Food Research and Action Center and Children's Healthwatch Food insecurity exists when people do not have access, at all times, to enough nutritious food to support an active and healthy...

When I applied for my AmeriCorps position at the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance, I only had a vague idea of what it would be like. I had heard of Cooking Matters and knew that the basic principles were all things I am passionate about (by all things I mean food, the...

The federal government is offering to pay for breakfast and lunch for all students in qualifying school districts starting this fall.   All districts that qualify should want to participate, shouldn’t they? After all, we know that hungry kids can’t learn.  Teachers...

At the beginning of the summer, when I heard the Youth Ambassadors would get to help teach a Cooking Matters for Kids class, I immediately began counting down the days til June 24th.  That would be the day I would take all this knowledge that working on the No Kid...