Saturday, August 9, 2008

Lunch for Life/L.O.V.E. Club Cookbook, Vol. 2 - set to debut in Sept. 2008

This year we will be compiling another cookbook to raise money for CNCF (Children's Neuroblastoma Cancer Foundation) for much needed research and family support (check out their new handbook for families on nbhope.org). The Lunch for Life Cookbook was a joint effort between The L.O.V.E. Club families and Lunch for Life. That is why we need you to help us make it a great success like last year's cookbook. Almost 3,000 cookbooks were sold at $20 each (for us non-math wizards that is $60,000). This year we will have a recipe form that can be downloaded and filled out for each recipe to make editing and printing that much easier and organized. To access that form please click on the following
link:http://www.nbhope.org/files/folders/lunch_for_life/entry52136.aspx

The sections will remain the same: Appetizers; Salads & Dressings;Soups & Sandwiches; Entrees; Side Dishes; Desserts; Kid-Friendly Foods. I am not sure that we will be able to include Celebrity Recipes unless someone is willing to be the contact person and has these relationships established. It would be nice if we could have maybe a different genre of celebrities or recipes from privately owned restaurants. If anyone has ideas please share them with me.There have been six or seven newly diagnosed children at Cooks since we printed the last cookbook so my idea was to do the story cards on them but then to have a short update on each one of our children with new pictures. For the children who are angels I thought that it would be great to include a page for each of the events that have taken place in their memory this year (ie. Michael Mancuso - 1st Annual Neuroblastoma Walk-A-Thon; Elesha Debenport - Lemonade Stand; Caleb Larson - Rodeo Event at Young Area). This is a wonderful way to show how their legacies live on. Also to include pictures of them on that page and maybe pictures from the events too. We will also include a precious poem that was suggested by Cathy Mancuso to honor the angels. I would like to include an entire information page on neuroblastoma, an information page on CNCF and then important websites for more information on neuroblastoma (the key one being CNCF and Lunch for Life).We will take recipes until August 21, 2008 and then I will need about two weeks to edit before sending them to the printer. This will put the release date sometime in the second or third week of September to honor Children's Cancer Awareness Month. It would be awesome if we had media, media and more media aware of the cookbook. I am even shooting for something to be available at the Geno Loro event so they can pre-order the cookbooks.Please post this on your websites so we can make this another great cookbook, even better than last year's.

2 comments:

Carolyn Wing said...

Good Morning: Can I submit a recipe for the book if I am the grandma to a NB child? Carolyn Wing grandma to Laura Stage IV neuroblastoma carepages.com page name LauraVDB carolyn_wing@yahoo.com

L.O.V.E. Club Moms said...

Absolutely! We accept all recipes from relatives, friends or people who have been inspired by our little warriors.