Food Bank Friday! November 21, 2008!

[ColbertWatcher]

http://friendsofpineridgereservation.org/projects/Winter_Coats_and_Electric_Heaters.shtml">Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota needs help this winter! Please click on the link and donate coats, space heaters and any other winter items you can think of!

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.

Some suggestions:

* donate money DUer peace13 reminds us that if a food bank accepts money, they can get food in bulk

* "adopt" an item and replenish it whenever it runs low (posted by DUer girl gone mad)

* donate birthday or holiday "kits" (DUer Rabrrrrrr)

* From the extension links below, donate all the items to complete one of the recipes (print out and donate copies of the recipe, too!)



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Other ways you can help

Donate recipe books (or other publications on nutrition) from your local cooperative extension service (Most states cooperative extensions services have all kinds of things available)

More information about the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (Main website and Food, Nutrition and Health links)

The Cooperative Extension System is a nationwide, non-credit educational network. Each U.S. state and territory has a state office at its land-grant university and a network of local or regional offices. These offices are staffed by one or more experts who provide useful, practical, and research-based information to agricultural producers, small business owners, youth, consumers, and others in rural areas and communities of all sizes.

CSREES is the federal partner in the Cooperative Extension System. It provides federal funding to the system and, through program leadership, helps the system identify and address current issues and problems.

Also, after a quick google search for "cooperative extension service recipe," here are three of the top links:

* The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Recipe Central http://lancaster.unl.edu/food/recipe.shtml#basic">Basic Foods From Fridge, Freezer and Cupboard, including a single-page http://lancaster.unl.edu/FOOD/BasicFoodsforCupboard.pdf">list of ingredients (pdf) for all the recipes on the UNL site

* Cornell University Cooperative Extension-New York City's complete (http://nyc.cce.cornell.edu/nutrition/recipes/2008/NH%20Recipe%20Collection.pdf">Nutirion and Health Program Recipe Collection) (pdf)

* University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture's Cooperative Extension Service Departments Family and Consumer Sciences Programming
Recipes recipes for people with diabetes

DUer 1776Forever posted a link for the University of Maine Cooperative Extension in another thread.

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.

[Stuart G]

1. I talked to the lady at our food bank on Monday...

It is much worse than people think...and it will get worse..sadly..

[ColbertWatcher]

2. Two stories of how bad it is ...

... home builders are auctioning off heavy equipment (http://www.latimes.com/business/printedition/la-fi-auction20-2008nov20,0,6058226.story)

and the Port of Long Beach is becoming a parking lot due to the number of cars not being bought. (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4501968&mesg_id=4501968)

No one has money for anything.

[ColbertWatcher]

3. Countdown kick. n/t

[The Straight Story]

4. K&R for your fine list my friend

Thanks again for posting this.

[ColbertWatcher]

5. Thank you, I post it every Friday. n/t