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VIDEO: #CityCookingChallenge returns with new home, recipes

On today's menu: tasty tuna toast thanks to Hunger Action Day

Susana Serrano, Managing Editor • September 19, 2022

#CityCookingChallenge is back and it will look very different from past semesters.

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VIDEO: Dress up your instant Thanksgiving side dishes

Latest #CityCookingChallenge shares tips to spruce up free food from Hunger Action Day

Susana Serrano, Executive Producer, CTTV • November 22, 2021

In the latest #CityCookingChallenge, City Times Media’s Susana Serrano shows you how to spruce up your instant side dishes in time for Thanksgiving.

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VIDEO: Making hummus from scratch with #CityCookingChallenge haul

Feeding San Diego, San Diego Food Bank provides food for twice-monthly drives

Susana Serrano, Executive Producer, CTTV • November 4, 2021

Hunger Action Day is back this month, and City Times Media multimedia journalist Susana Serrano took food home and cooked hummus for #CityCookingChallenge on Nov. 2.

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VIDEO: Pear oatmeal a delicious, healthy #CityCookingChallenge treat

Hunger Action Day is held twice a month at San Diego City College

Susana Serrano, Multimedia Journalist • October 19, 2021

In this week's #CityCookingChallenge, Susana Serrano mixed items from the food drive and her own kitchen to make a delicious and healthy pear oatmeal.

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VIDEO: 5 #CityCookingChallenge recipes you can make in your kitchen this summer

The video series combats food insecurities by cooking delicious food drive meals, one bag at a time

Jesus Lopez, Multimedia Journalist • May 31, 2021

Food insecurity is not an easy topic to bring up at the dinner table, even though one in three people in San Diego County is food-insecure.

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Saucy tuna pasta on the menu after City College food drive

CTM's Jesus Lopez cooks up a tasty dish after today's Hunger Action Day

Jesus Lopez, Multimedia Journalist • May 17, 2021

Hungry? City Times Media multimedia journalist Jesus Lopez made saucy tuna pasta with today’s Hunger Action Day food drive haul from Feeding San Diego.

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VIDEO: #CityCookingChallenge serves up French-inspired sandwich

Don't hold back on the béchamel sauce, made from today's Hunger Action Day food drive haul

Jesus Lopez, Multimedia Journalist • May 4, 2021

Today we made a delicious Croque Monsieur with our Hunger Action Day haul for this edition of #CityCookingChallenge.

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Business department-run programs benefit students

Increased hours for the food pantry highlight the need for student support

Jade Benn, Staff Writer • December 3, 2019

The City College Business Entrepreneurship Program has extended hours for the City College Emergency Food Pantry, which has increased opportunities for students to access free meals and snacks.

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Week of Service comes to Downtown San Diego

Volunteering at Father Joe's Village was one of five opportunities extended to City College Students this week.

Lacey Stefano , Staff Writer • October 18, 2019

City College Week of Service participants volunteered at Father Joe’s Villages on Thursday to help feed homeless people in need.

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Food pantry aids students facing food insecurity

SDCCD invests in addressing growing issue of hunger on campus

Monica de la Cruz, Managing Editor • May 23, 2018

May 23, 2018 The phrase “starving college student” is often thrown around with humor in American pop culture and conjures images of cheap meal staples that fuel students through their first years...