Entries Tagged as 'Food'
Filling the brown bag can help to fight hunger on Kaua‘i
February 24th, 2010 · No Comments
Dennis Fujimoto/The Garden Island
Rice, Canned fruits, pasta, soups, tuna, peanut butter, Ensure and Pediasure, and canned vegetables top the list of items sorely needed by the Kaua‘i Food Bank.
The brown paper bag inserted in today’s edition of The Garden Island can hold these, and more, kicking off the Kaua‘i Food Bank’s 16th Annual Healthy Spring [...]
Kaua‘i Food Bank feeds over 11,000 each year
February 10th, 2010 · No Comments
Credit: Dennis Fujimoto/The Garden Island file photo
According to the new findings reported in Hunger in America, 2010, a national study conducted by Feeding America, the Kaua‘i Food Bank provides emergency food assistance for an estimated 11,100 different people annually, a news release states.
About 1,300 different people receive emergency food assistance in any given week. Over [...]
800 hams make ‘tasty dent’ in Kaua‘i Food Bank’s needs
December 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
Credit: Dennis Fujimoto/The Garden Island
When Judy Lenthall, director for the Kaua‘i Food Bank, wants hams, she will get hams.
Times Supermarket had pallets of hams in the back of its store awaiting the arrival of Kaua‘i Food Bank trucks, Monday, after a combined contribution from the Hawai‘i Hotel and Lodging Association, Kaua‘i Chapter, and Coldwell Bankers [...]
Butterfish got ya sick?
November 26th, 2009 · No Comments
Yea? There might be a reason for that. Seems like the walu, or escolar fish, is often mislabeled and sold as Hawaiian butterfish. And escolar can cause ‘keriorrhea’ …
NEWS RELEASE
November 25, 2009
Legislator concerned with mislabeled fish will introduce bill to mandate correct information for consumers
HONOLULU. Rep. John Mizuno, D-30 (Kamehameha Heights, [...]






