This Saturday, May 14th, is the annual Stamp Out Hunger food drive of the Postal Workers. I participate every year by filling a bag with non-perishable food items and putting it on the mail box Friday night. The food pantries need the help, because they are serving an ever-increasing number of people.
If you don’t have a mail box, most post offices have a collection bin.
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i’ll put mine out tomorrow morning. thanks for the reminder!
I use this post to remind myself 🙂
spaghetti (because even kids will eat spaghetti), miscellaneous items from my stock of “hurricane food” (tuna and Vienna sausages this year, iirc), and oatmeal and brown sugar (because even hungry people deserve to have oatmeal cookies).
I don’t believe in polluting my oatmeal cookies with raisins, so I didn’t have any raisins in the house to add to the stash.
I’ve also got to where I prefer my spaghetti with butter, olive oil, herbs, and some parmesan (or sometimes asiago or romano) cheese, so, alas, no jar of spaghetti sauce from me this year (also, no worries about broken glass jars this way, so there’s that). spaghetti, spaghetti sauce, and tuna fish are the staples I usually put out every year, supplemented by various oddities I have on hand at the time.
I considered adding a few cans of cat food, because even hungry people deserve to be able to feed their pets, but I was afraid it would be taken the wrong way, even if I included an explanatory note (which is part of the reason I always include cans of tuna fish).
My standard bags included peanut butter, tuna, powdered milk, rice, macaroni, vegetable oil, canned fruits and vegetables. The food banks get broken bags of dry pet food from stores and put it in plastic bags.