A Loving Spoonful (previously known as the Vancouver Meals Society) is a Vancouver, British Columbia-based charitable organization that provides free meals to people living with HIV/AIDS (PWHAs) in the Metro Vancouver area.Volunteers deliver approximately 1200 frozen meals and 1200 snack packs each week at an average meal cost of $3.50 . In 1998 A Loving Spoonful was named as "the most efficient meal program service" in the region .The charity's motto is "No One Living With AIDS Should Live With Hunger."

Author has a pleasant meal at an idiosyncratic restaurant famous for their toast!

Live Earth wants you to road trip from Seattle to Giants Stadium in order to help spread the word about climate change. You spend five weeks seeing the country and helping to save the Earth. In return, Microsoft will pay you $5,000 plus give you money for meals and lodging and supply you with a laptop and a camera. Be a professional blogger!

Three great Letters to the Editor in the 1/20/07 edition of the Seattle Times. They are a response to Bruce Ramsey's ill-conceived article "School meal is poor substitute for home-cooked involvement."

The boss of the Seahawks will be dishing out turkey Thursday. So will Seattle's top cop.Coach Mike Holmgren and police Chief Gil Kerlikowske will be among the volunteers serving a free Thanksgiving meal to those less fortunate at the Salvation Army.