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I volunteer at a food bank, and the company that sends us our food decides what we get. Last Tuesday they sent so much produce we could not fit it all into fridges. We were trying to give away cases of the food on Wednesday, but people were turning it down because they had no place to store a case of tomatoes, or cauliflower. This was what we had left after last Wednesday's morning give away. Not pictured the 5000lbs of watermelons, the 2500lbs of onions (those will last a lot longer).

The company that supplies us wants to move from sending shipments every other week, to once a month. This would cause even more no produce loss.

It is so frustrating to have all this food for it to go bad. Even if we got the same volume of produce, but there was variation in what it is we could give it away easier.

Edit: I posted this in a comment.

Because of bureaucracy we have to request this. If it is found out we are giving away the food to unapproved recipients we can lose all of our funding. If we give to unapproved recipients and they in turn give us prepared food to give out, that is okay.

Word got out that we were loading up my pickup with food and taking it to the homeless camps. I did get a number of them to start coming to the bank to get food. But it was easier when I could take stuff to them.

We are not allowed to simply give it out to anyone. This is not like a church pantry where all of the food is donated by the community and's parishioners. There is government funding, as well as private businesses, which I am guessing get their money back from the government for funding this. If we could simply give it to anyone we would not be in this situation.

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[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Trade it to a restaurant in exchange for stuff they might have you actually want. Shouldn't be hard to move tomato and onion

[–] Worstdriver@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

I'm one of the returns clerks in a Costco. First thing we do every morning is process stuff to send the food bank. It irks me how much stuff we aren't allowed to send because the manufacturer won't allow it. Even despite that we send a lot every day. Everything that does spoil at the food bank goes to a local pig farm, who donates pig products back to the food bank whenever he can.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 0 points 52 minutes ago

yet another reason to really dig costco. huzzah, respect

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 hours ago

We are trying to find one place that will consistently take our spoilage.

We get a lot of expired stuff from Walmart and the grocery store in town. But Walmart takes forever to get it to us. Usually when we get it, it is a week expired. Where the grocery store we get it a day or two before it actually expires.

[–] Pothetato@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Thank you pigs! Also compost piles.

[–] oz1sej 85 points 10 hours ago (42 children)

Seldom have I seen a better example of why universal basic income is so preferable to food banks.

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[–] JoeBidet@lemmy.ml 28 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

pickle pickle pickle!

2% salted water brine, spices, glass weights to maintain under water in not-too-tight closed jars with co2 escape. keep at room temperature, and here you go!

[–] Vreyan31@reddthat.com 34 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

The jars likely cost more than the volume of produce it could store.

Also - have to arrange logistics for labor, supplies, and a kitchen to do the boiling in. Now that you are making a cooked food product, your kitchen also likely needs a license.

And insurance in case your rushed pickling operation creates any jars that go foul and anyone gets sick.

Also -- ew. Not even the destitute want pickled cauliflower.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

Pickeled cauliflower sounds so incredibly bad

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago

I was nodding along until

Not even the destitute want pickled cauliflower.

It's great!

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 6 points 7 hours ago

Yep food pantries will repackage food but rarely process or cook it because that's a whole different animal.

But, many food pantries I've worked with had ways to offload large amounts of things creatively, it's how I got the best pear gelato I've ever had in my life.

[–] tartarin@reddthat.com 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You need to teach people how to do it themselves instead. They can do it in small groups helping each other making the event more joyful.

[–] Vreyan31@reddthat.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Wait - do you think that people who need food banks have a ton of free time for cooking clubs? Do you think it's because they don't work enough instead of what everyone knows which is that most people on the edge can't make rent if they only have one job?

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[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't get it, if this is government funded, when you guys submitted the funds request, or when you discussed your contract with the company that sends you the food, shouldn't you have added like, in a contract, what happened not only when you receive the produce, but the expected amounts and what procedure you will follow if those amounts did not match, either exceeding or lacking?

Seems like a HUGE oversight to me. Did it ever occur to them that you could either not receive anything or receive too much?

Unless you all did and it exceeded your calculations by far (and even then I'd argue that whoever did your calculations fucked up and you lot should have either review it again or rejected the offer altogether) this is all on whoever said "that sounds like a great idea let's do it"

Unless it didn't matter? In which case why the worry? This surely must have happened thousand of times by now in that case

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 hours ago

Last year our bank's ability to place orders was taken away from us. Now we get what we get.

Before that happened we did not have issues like this every delivery. The previous delivery we received frozen falafel in wraps, but so many that all of our freezers were full of it. Volunteers were taking it home by the case. We turned away multiple pallets of the stuff because we were out of room. My chest freezer is so full of them I have a 50 pound bag of rice sitting on top to make sure it stays closed.

We also went from not having milk for months, to having no room to place it all.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 19 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I am working at an Amazon company's warehouse that specifically stores food items.

The amount of shit we throw in trash just because "packaging is slightly off" makes me angry and just one day of bad management spoils enough food to feed entire family.

There is no air conditioning or fridge. It's summer in Texas so if we delay a single day, half the items go bad. There are dairy products here. (And people in border of heatstroke but that's another topic.)

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago

That's fucking crazy and frankly also what I expected/why I would never order perishables from Amazon. Of fucking course they neither store it properly nor even keep the facility cool.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Send in Newman, he can make a room full of muffin stumps disappear.

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