I know the general idea is to just give some food away that has been in your cupboard, but when we can, we try to actually go to the store and purchase some food for the food drive.
It feels good to be buying food for someone else who needs it. We try to buy food that kids will like.
I think food banks get lots of beans and tuna, but who wants to eat that all of the time? (I've heard that waxed beans are the most popular donation.)
So we buy food that we would be happy to give anyone.
Here's a picture of some of what we are donating. It feels good to be helping others. We got some good deals on the food too. We went to Grocery Outlet, which is a West coast discount store, and those juice boxes were just 89 cents and the concentrate is from the USA.
(Some Apple juice is from concentrate made in CHINA! I just discovered this recently when looking at a store brand apple juice container. It's printed directly on the plastic container where the apple juice comes from. After seeing it on the juice I drank, I did a search and found this article. Apparently, even some brand names are buying from China.)
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