Food Bank Friday! November 14, 2008!

[ColbertWatcher]

Don't forget your local food bank, the New York Times reports that many food banks across the country are running out of food.

Print out the flier below and make copies for your friends, family or co-workers to take with you when you go grocery shopping. (Or surreptitiously leave copies at the grocery store!)

You don't have to pick up everything on the list, just remember to pick up something.



Also, don't forget people at the http://friendsofpineridgereservation.org/projects/Winter_Coats_and_Electric_Heaters.shtml">Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. They're looking for coats and space heaters. Please help any way you can.

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Other ways you can help

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) http://www.chiron-communications.com/farms.html

Second Harvest http://www.feedingamerica.org/?show_nce=1

Find and donate "free after rebate" items offered by many stores http://www.salescircular.com/

Thanksgiving Tip (from DUer central scrutinizer: many grocery stores offer cheap frozen turkeys - as low as $.19 per pound - if you buy over a certain amount, often $75 or $100. I take advantage of this to get a big turkey for a really low price and donate it to the food bank.

This winter will be pretty bad in some areas, so even if you can't make it to the food bank, send money or help out any way you can.

And, last, but not least, please support candidates and policies that guarantee livable wages.

[Sherman A1]

1. Good Post

I have been doing my little bit to help at the grocery store where I work. We have Operation Food Search coming in 4 days per week (2 different groups, a church and a women's shelter). As Receiver I handle the damaged products and check in the vendors. Now we do have policies on damage and I am required to do specific things with specific products so that we can get credit for them, that is part of the game and the job. However, anything that I can give to the groups, I do along with having convinced several of the vendors to contribute when they have something. On day last year I had a whole pallet of cookies dropped off, I regularly get a shopping cart full of bread from one driver, another gives his taco and burrito wraps and sometimes I will get snack cakes. Even had one driver pick up a couple of trays of snack cakes at his distribution center that were going to the dumpster and carried them along during the day just to bring them to me to box up for pick up. The great part about this is, that all I have to do is talk it up a bit to the drivers and they do what they can (which does vary from day to day). Helps the folks and at really no cost to anyone, so there are opportunities out there, sometimes we just have to rethink what we do.

[ColbertWatcher]

2. Very cool.

Everyone wants to help, some need a little reminder or opportunity.

Looks like you gave those truck drivers a way to contribute, too!

Thank you for posting.

[Stuart G]

3. This problem is so important...thanks for posting..

It is so hard to believe that there is not enough food here in this country for us...

...all of us...right now as you read these words..please help out...kids who are hungry cannot learn..no one can...thanks..

[ColbertWatcher]

12. You're welcome! n/t

[Mabus]

4. Another kick and a recommend

We all need to look out for each other. You're a gem for doing this ColbertWatcher.

[bdamomma]

5. kick

[Bertha Venation]

6. My local food bank CLOSED because it ran out of food.

I am trying to reach someone there to find out what's going on. It's Southern Maryland Food Bank, part of Maryland Food Bank. I wonder, can't all the other MD food banks pitch in part of their inventories to give SOMDFB enough to open again and accept donations?

I wish I could take four pallets of provisions to them, but alas I can only take four bags. Hardly a drop in the bucket.

Christ! this makes me mad.

[Stuart G]

8. The above post....undbelieveably ...sad..........nt

[ColbertWatcher]

10. I cannot understand that.

Maybe they closed because of rent? Regardless, I always hate when an essential service is shut down for whatever reason. It's almost as if someone is saying that it is no longer needed.

[WolverineDG]

7. My grocery store has an interesting way to do this

there are little coupons at the check out & you can add $1, $5, or $10 to your bill as a donation to the food bank. It shows up as "Donation to Food Bank" on your receipt so you can take the deduction if you like.

dg

[ColbertWatcher]

11. I've seen those too. Thank you for the reminder. n/t

[sandnsea]

15. We have containers in the store

To put the free "get one" into. We're "rounding up" for breast cancer on the receipts.

[ColbertWatcher]

16. Nice. Thank you. n/t

[earth mom]

9. I'm hoping our local Albertsons will have the cheap turkey deal they had last year

so that we can donate some turkeys this year. I think we only had to spend $40 last year to get the deal.

[CTyankee]

13. In New Haven, we have "Fill the Bowl" where you get a free ticket to

the Yale-Princeton game if you bring a frozen turkey or $10 worth of nonperishable food items to the Yale Bowl tomorrow.

Usually, this does pretty well but unfortunately there may be lots of rain tomorrow for the game. I was planning on attending but may not if it is really horrible. I will give to my favorite food bank, St. Ann's Church in Hamden, in any case.

[ColbertWatcher]

14. I have heard a few stories about Universities doing something similar ...

... during their big games.

It's a great idea whoever came up with it first!

Thank you for posting.

[catgirl]

17. Thanks for this post

I've gathered together some warm winter clothing for the Pine Ridge Reservation.

[ColbertWatcher]

18. No, thank YOU! n/t

[Stuart G]

19. very important thread...tonight, here U.S.A, hundreds of thousands

of our fellow citizens do not have enough to eat and are starving..Kick this thread, and rec it too....

[ColbertWatcher]

22. Thank you. n/t

[rainbow4321]

20. Our clinic has started their annual food drive for a food bank

for people living with HIV/AIDS. It's being done in kind of a cool way. They separated everyone in the building into different teams so we can "compete" against each other. Which ever team gets the most points get a "prize" in the end..think it's pizza or something, I forget off hand what it was last year.
Each donated food item is assigned a different point amount and those points are added up in the end to figure out which team "wins".
Just wanted to share in case anyone wanted a way to start a food drive in their work place.

[ColbertWatcher]

23. If you need to, use the check list.

Also, if you can improve it in anyway let me know I can change it for next week!

[OhioChick]

21. Thanks for the reminders!

K&R
:kick:

[ColbertWatcher]

24. You're welcome! n/t