The basic idea for the Empty Bowls Project is simple. Participants create ceramic bowls, then serve a simple meal of soup and bread. Guests choose a bowl to use that day and to keep as a reminder of the meal's purpose. Every time they take the bowl from their cupboard, they will be reminded that someone's bowl is always empty and that on this one occasion they helped to alleviate hunger and could choose to do so again at anytime. In exchange for the meal and the bowl, the guest gives a suggested minimum donation of money. We, the Shorecrest Empty Bowls Project, choose a hunger-fighting organization to receive the money donated.