Restaurant’s ‘Good Karma’ promotion to benefit FOOD Share

Oct. 18, 2012 - PRLog -- (VENTURA, Calif.) – Himalaya, a Ventura restaurant that features cuisine from Nepal, India and Tibet, will offer a “Good Karma” promotion on Sunday, Oct. 21, during its lunch hour from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. Guests dining during the “Good Karma” time frame will be treated to a complimentary meal. In exchange for the delicious eats on the house, Anup Rimal, owner of Himalaya, encourages dining patrons to pay it forward and make a monetary donation toward FOOD Share, Ventura County’s regional food bank.

About FOOD Share:

The food bank distributing millions of pounds of food each year to those in need throughout Ventura County, FOOD Share collects and receives food year-round, distributing through more than 150 pantry partner agencies throughout Ventura County, including Camarillo, Fillmore, Moorpark, Oak View, Ojai, Oxnard, Santa Paula, Simi Valley, Somis, Thousand Oaks, and Ventura.

FOOD Share provides food to more than 74,500 people each month countywide through its partner agencies and multiple programs. Programs include the Senior Brown Bag that provides supplemental nutrition to nearly 2,000 low income seniors, home delivered meals and supplemental groceries through the Oxnard and Ventura Senior Nutrition Programs and, the Kids’ Farmers’ Markets, offering nutrition education, healthy recipe preparation and taste testing and a farmers’ market free fresh produce “shopping experience.”

In 2011, FOOD Share partnered with Ventura County’s Human Services Agency to provide expanded CalFresh enrollment assistance. CalFresh, formerly called food stamps, is the largest federal nutrition assistance program that provides supplemental nutrition assistance to eligible Ventura County residents.

For more information: call (805) 983-7100 or go to http://www.foodshare.com.