Enter to Win 400 Meals Donated to *Your* Local Food Bank!
Update: This giveaway has ended. Congratulations to Mary, whose Buffalo area food bank will be receiving 400 donated meals!
Food insecurity is a big issue in the United States, especially in summer when students don't receive school lunches. In Oregon, 20% of our population is currently receiving SNAP (food stamp) benefits, penciling out to 814,460 people last month, a new record. And it's not just Oregon, as 1 in 5 American children are food insecure.
However, in the midst of these dismal statistics are people and organizations trying to bridge the gap. And one of the those companies is Juicy Juice who has partnered with Feeding America with a Fruit for All Project.
Their goal? To get 35 million pieces of fruit into the hands of America's children by the end of the summer. (They're over 21 million so far!)
To spread the word about this program, Juicy Juice will be giving 400 meals to the closest food bank of one lucky Non-Consumer Advocate reader. (They will also be donating 400 meals to The Oregon Food Bank!)
To enter to win food for your local food bank, write your favorite kind of fruit in the comments section below. I will randomly choose a winner Saturday, August 11th at 5 P.M. Pacific Standard Time. Please enter one time, U.S. residents only.
And by the way, my favorite kind of fruit is blueberries.
Click HERE to learn more about Juicy Juice's Fruit for All Program.
Katy Wolk-Stanley
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I love red raspberries. And I find tons of them for free at work! (we have a bunch of raspberry bushes along the perimeter of the property).
Blackberries are my favorite fruit.
Strawberries. Definitely strawberries!
Berries! Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries...
Green seedless grapes!!
Fresh peaches! I live for this time of the year, for peaches so juicy the juice runs down your hand and arm.
I am all about pineapple.
No question: watermelon.
Anything but canteloupe. Love, love, love fruit!!
Pineapple, definitely pineapple (and then black berries, mango, cherries, strawberries, and all the rest!)
It's so hard to choose just one fruit! But I think I need to go with fresh, rip peaches -- just sooo good!
oops, *ripe
Fresh peaches grown just up the road from our house - nothing better!!
That's a toughie, I love them all. If I have to choose I'd say blackberries.
Cherries!
Blueberries for me too!
Boy do I love watermelon ... a lot ... a whole lot ... um, yeah. 🙂
Blueberries... at their peak right now in western NY.
I vote with Mary Ann--Berries....strawberries, blueberries, blackberries and raspberries. Yummy.
Mango
Cherries right now. Clementines in winter.
strawberries.
This is a hard one, but I think it's got to be mango. I grew up eating it in my grandmother's kitchen. In the summer, she'd slice it up for us kids and we'd eat it cold from the refrigerator with the juice dripping down our arms. Delicious!
Peaches. Big, juicy, dripping peaches!
Peaches for me. Some days while they're at their peak, I eat 3 or 4, usually standing over the kitchen sink and making unseemly slurping noises.
Kiwi
Berries, all kinds!
raspberries all the way, baby! one summer in college I worked at a berry patch and got free strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries all summer. IT. WAS. AWESOME.
Watermelon!!!
I think it's blueberries for me as well.
Apples.
Pineapples
A juicy, just-picked peach! In Georgia we eat them until we get blisters in our mouths, they are just that good.
I love sweet, juicy peaches
-Kim from Philadelphia
Gosh, these answers are making me hungry for fruit! I think fresh peaches are first, followed by fresh strawberries.
Cherries! The red ones, that stain your mouth.
Or whatever just came into season (the first strawberry, the first plum, the first tangerine).
Blueberries for me!
Blackberries!
Bananas! Always available, come in their own biodegradable packaging, and my hands don't necessarily have to be clean to eat them.
I love all kinds of berries.
Raspberries! And in a not-too-distant second place, basically every other kind of fruit out there. 🙂
Blueberries. I eat an outrageous amount of them in the summer.
I'd like to say berries, but when I think about what I eat the most of, it has to be bananas. Hands down.
Not sure I could pick one. Although I am not a big fruit person, I do like some.
Pinapple, strawberries, blackberries, rasberries, red seedless grapes.
Peaches or gala apples
Figs!
Extremely hard choice...I think a perfect, perfect peach has to be the best thing in the world. If you can't get that, a Fuji or Winesap apple right off the tree is tops too.
Raspberries!
Even though I don't really eat them anymore because I now live in the North, I'd go for a Florida mango drizzled with fresh lime juice any day.
Peaches!
Fresh Michigan peaches in August from my brother's farm!
Mangos! I'm a serious dessert girl, and mangos are the only fruit that satisfy my dessert cravings. (Awesome giveaway, by the way!)
Cherries! Great giveaway program!
Cherries! or Cara-Cara oranges
Strawberries, Strawberries and more Strawberries!!
Nectarines!!!
Blueberries!
I LOVE Blueberries!
I am a fan of most kinds of fruit. But if I have to pick one, I pick mangos!
Peaches!
Peaches!
Fresh picked fall raspberries!
Summer blackberries straight off the branch!
Pineapples!
black raspberries
What a truly AWESOME giveaway!!! How every cool.
My favorite fruit varies, but right now it is cherries. Fresh and local!
raspberries -- fresh from the bushes!
Raspberries, fresh off the bush and still warm from the sun!
Raspberries!
Thank you for your compassion and donation! How fabulously generous!
Raspberries. And here's hoping the Oregon Food Bank wins another 400 meals!
I love strawberries!
Strawberries for sure!
Bananas! "Yes, we have no bananas today!"
Strawberries, always!
Hard to choose--but I would have to say blackberries. My mom used to make the best blackberry pie.
Definitely watermelon. Great giveaway!
Peaches are perfection when they're good ones. (And mealy nasty tennis balls when they're not). But we have a great food pantry in my town that really focuses on fresh produce, so this would be a great giveaway for them!
I am a bit fan of all fruit but I would have to say my favorite is a ripe peach fresh off the tree.
Peaches.
But any summer fruit will do.
Watermelon!
Fresh Raspberries 🙂
Peaches. Or maybe Cherries. Or maybe both together!
My favourite fruit is pineapple! I could eat it every day and never get tired. Followed closely by bananas.
I'm not a US citizen, but I was hoping that I could still enter and have my potential winnings donated to a Detroit area food bank?
A really good pear.
I love mangos! And strawberries. And ...
My favorite fruit is peaches!
My favorite fruit is watermelon. I can eat it all day!
My favorite is a really well-ripened, black in color plum, fresh off the tree!
Cherries!
Fresh raspberries in season!
Peaches!
Watermelon!
Atalufo Mangos...I wait for them each year!
A perfectly juicy sweet pear can't be beat!
There's really not a bad fruit though. Dragon fruit is fun when you want something glamorous.
Pears! i can eat pears all day!
Delicious Honeycrisp apples! They have a long refrigerator life so I stockpile them when they're in season.
I enjoy whatever's in season but always make sure to have an apple a day as my morning snack. 🙂
Mmmm, so many choices! I really love grapes.
Apples! (& blueberries & pineapple & marionberries!)
Blueberries all the way!
I love all fruit, but this time of year it has to be melons, watermelon,
cantaloupe, honeydew!
Fantastic giveaway that I'm sure every state could use, but NM is 49th in the ratings for how kids fare in our country!
Pomegranates!
Watermelon! Or locally grown peaches in August..
Wow, that's generous! Glad to hear of things like this. Last week my mother told me that the winner of a big prize drawing at bingo donated it to the Kenai food bank, they received 500 dollar gift certificate for groceries and a chest freezer!
Anyways, in honor of my local food bank, I love berries, specifically blackberries, and they are a million times better if fresh picked
Strawberries! I was allergic to them most of my life and now I am obsessed with them!
Love this "give-away"!
I'm a traditionalist & my favorite fruits are apples and bananas.
Strawberries from a local farm. Peaches, which bring back memories of my Nana.
Right now I'll go with nectarines, YUM!
bananas! i'm eating one right now. with peanut butter!
Plums! 🙂 Wonderful giveaway!
Pears! What a great contest! 🙂
rainier cherries. nom nom nom
Grapes.
What a great idea!
Strawberries
Must admit, always been a banana fan!
Grapefruit!
Blackberries1
Cherries!! Thanks for this great contest!
What a great giveaway! I have a hard time picking favorites, but two of mine are pineapple and mango.
My favorite is apricots: canned, dried, or fresh! Thanks! This is a great idea.
Wow, hard to choose one favorite! I would have to say strawberries. My favorite part of spring is strawberry season!
I can't pick a favorite. I love cherries, strawberries, and avocado. And others.
Mango, no raspberry, no peaches, no Rainier cherries. HMMM...one of those!
Peaches. Love peaches!
My favorite this week were white nectarines straight from the farmer's market.
Marionberries! I especially loved saying that when we owned a house on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, where we lived from 1990-1995. Marion Barry was the mayor back then and he was always in a real jam! Pun intended 😉
Blueberries
Red raspberries!
Thank you for raising my awareness on this issue. My favorite fruit is the blueberry.
Bing Cherries.
I volunteer for Manna food Pantry In Pensacola, Fl. We are serving approximately twice as many hungry people this year as last.
bananas
Ranier cherries!
Red Delicious Apples
My favorite fruit is the bluberry...this is a great blessing
Georgia Peaches!!!
Cherries
cherries!
Strawberries and raspberries and blueberries oh my!! Fresh picked is the best!
Raspberries for sure! (but honestly I have never met a fruit I did not like)
My new best favorite golden melon. I tried it for the first time this year and it is the sweetest and juciest melon ever! Here's hoping Food Bank of Alaska is a winner!
Tangelos...so juicy!
Raspberries! I could eat several packages of them in one sitting!
Peaches!
fresh juicy yakima peaches!!!!
I look forward to them every year about this time.
Nectarines far and away my favorite fruit! Seeing a nectarine after a loooooong North Dakota winter has me doing the happy, happy dance!
Blueberries warm and sweet from the bush!
My favorite is blackberries; love them on oatmeal! Thank you for this wonderful contest!
Papaya!!
Although I'm more of a vegetable girl, I'd have to say that my favorite fruit is (are?) raspberries! 🙂
Thank you to you and Juicy Juice.
Oranges and pineapple!
mango!
Not to put on the pressure, but our local food bank is about to close for lack of supplies and donations. If the winner doesn't have any strong opinion about which pantry to donate to, please consider: http://wheatpantry.org/. Thank you for running this give-away.
pears!
Mango
pears and bananas
Mango 🙂
I love apples, which I eat almost daily; peaches, which I'm obsessed with right now; and home canned plum jam!
In the summer it's definitely cherries and watermelon.
Peaches!
nectarines, yum!
Peaches!!!
Peaches but only if they're fresh and juicy!
Blueberries !
Raspberries
Watermelon!
depends of the year. Right now its blueberry soon it will be pears then peaches and apples
Definitely raspberries! They remind me of summer when I was a child and our backyard was full of raspberry bushes!
So not fair! I cannot pick one, i love so many different kinds of fruit. Ok, i guess my absolute favorite has to be pineapple. 🙂
My favorite fruit is black currents.
Mmm...figs!
#1: Strawberries
#1A: a perfectly ripe mango.
Cherries!
berries of all kinds!! Thank you for sharing this offer. i volunteer at 2 food banks so would LOVE to win!!!!!
Berries, definitely the berries! And Oregon is wonderful for berries! Also volunteered while between jobs. Great to share with the food banks!
BANANAS!!!
raspberries from our garden!
Cherries
My favorite is a cold Honeycrisp apple right out of the fridge.
Sweet local cherries. Can't get enough!
Strawberries, hands down.
I support the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina: http://www.foodbankcenc.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about
Black Raspberries!
Strawberries.
I was food-insecure as a child. Thank you for doing this contest. My husband and I give to Second Harvest Food Bank. http://www.shfb.org/
Perfect pears!
I love blueberries best, but a really good peach is a close second.
Don't make me choose! Right now it's peaches, last month blueberries, before that raspberries. But I guess if I had to choose one, it would be apples.
cherries!
Blueberries!
Raspberries!
Nectarines, but they have to be perfect.
Choose one? Come one!
Blueberries, blackberries, figs, cantaloupe, apples, peaches, nectarines, tangerines....
I love most fruits and I love this give-away idea!
I LOVE watermelon in the summer and apples in the fall/winter! Would love to win this giveaway for my local food pantry!
Pears!
Bananas!
guava <3 so refreshing
avocado!
Wild blackberries.
Thanks for doing this giveaway.
Apples. While I would love for my local food bank to receive the meals, I am thrilled to know that someone's local food bank will benefit. I run a mobile food pantry and know all too well the need that is out there.
My favorite fruit has to be a good peach. Nectarine is a very close second.
Raisins. Does that count as a fruit?
This is an amazing giveaway. I live just over the river from Reading Pennsylvania which is the poorest city in the country. What an honor, right? I hope the media attention can help us turn things around here.
I love this giveaway! I also love fruit. Mangoes, watermelon, bosc pears, papaya, lychees, peaches and blueberries are my favorites. I try to stick with local and seasonal, though....so the tropicals are a rare treat!
Cherries, raspberries, peaches. Apples the rest of the year. Pineapple. But NOT blueberries.
Blueberries! Perfect to munch on or to add to a smoothie.
My favorite fruit is raspberries.
Hard to choose, but I am going to say nectarines. I'd give a different answer in October though.
Satsuma plums!
Raspberries!
Tangerines! They peel so easily and they're sweet/ tart.
Strawberries!
Strawberries and pineapple. Great giveaway!!
Way to be pro active towards hunger in the USA !!
what a great giveaway!
favorite fruit--oranges/tangerines. yum!
Cherries! And I didn't bake a cherry pie last weekend, but will try to do it this weekend!
Raspberries.
blackberries!
I adore cantaloupe!
Definitely strawberries, I don't think I could ever grow tired of them.
I love apples!
I love love love watermelon.
Kiwi!
I don't know where I have been all my life, but I just discovered raspberries. I love them. They are my new favorite.
Huckleberries!!
Can't get enough watermelon.
I have so many favorites! I think it would have to be strawberries.
oh goodness . . .I have so many!!! But any type of stone fruit would be my favorite . . .peaches, plums, cherries, you name it!
Fresh ripe peaches!
Strawberries!
Mango is my favorite fruit hands down.
My favorite fruit is peaches from Palisade, Colorado fresh from the farmers' market.
Bananas and plums!
Strawberries
raspberries!
Red cherries.
Kiwi fruit
Such a tough question. Strawberries, I guess, but I love so many fruits.