We have a food pantry in this town and anyone can go in and ask for a helping hand. Lately, the pantry has been having articles in the paper about how empty they are. I guess they are getting a lot more people who are down on their luck in this bad ecomony.
I am buying 2 or 3 things for the pantry every time I go grocery shopping.
Here is what they are asking for:
canned potatoes
canned peas
chunky soups
bagged rice
instant potatoes
canned tuna and chicken
peanut butter
jelly
powdered milk
Maybe you could pick up a few items to donate to your food pantry too.
According to my Ingles card, I saved $3 today, so I will add that to my challenge money.
Prev. total $20,932.00
today 3.00
new total $20,935.00
Food pantry
September 21st, 2008 at 07:49 pm
September 21st, 2008 at 08:56 pm 1222026996
My youngest daughter's Girl Scout troup is doing a service project for our local food shelf by collecting food and donations, plus creating recipes using typically donated food items. Locally they say that donations always slow down in the summer, and don't pick up until nearer to Thanksgiving.
September 21st, 2008 at 10:07 pm 1222031262
Thanks Ima! I just wrote two goals for myself on a sticky note on my desk. One goal is to donate to the food pantry. Going to go look into this one RIGHT NOW. I can't stand the thought of people going hungry when I have fully stocked cupboards.
September 21st, 2008 at 11:12 pm 1222035172
You have reminded me to start looking for stuff for them again.