Great Day at the Food Bank
December 20, 2010 at 4:35 PM Leave a comment
I just got back from the food bank. Wow. What a great day. Well, I should qualify that by saying I think it it is so wrong that food banks are even necessary in our society but given the fact that they are, it was a great day.
Both the volunteers and the clients were in the holiday spirit. The shelves were packed and we had lots of goodies, i.e, things outside the usual beans, soup, rice, tuna and canned veggies and fruit.
We had a huge selection of condiments (since when does a food bank have Tartar sauce or salsa or blueberry jam?). We had fresh onions, apples, kale, potatoes, both cheddar and goat cheese, two kinds of milk (whole and 2%), soy coffee creamer, seven or eight varieties of cereal, French bread and lots of pasta and spaghetti sauce.
It felt so good to take clients through and offer them something different. It’s awful taking people through week after week who see the same food every single time — which will happen again come January (through October).
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