SNAP: As the Season Turns
Dec. 3rd, 2013 06:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
scifigrl47:
copperbadge:
strangeselkie:
'Tis the season for a wrapping-paper-covered cardboard box in the second floor kitchen, into which (if experience serves) people will mostly put ramen packets.
— this is mostly not on purpose; our company’s wage to cost of living ratio is very poor —
There will also be bags of beans, rice, rice-a-roni, store-brand salty-rice-o-matic, tinned beans, tinned mashed beans, tinned beans with bits of hot dog in the tin, and that one tin with the label fallen off.
Well, you might say, free is free, and they should be grateful to get it!
…You might say that, and it might be true. But this year, if you can afford it, please donate stuff you might actually want to eat. Donate a bag of chocolate chips because parents on many of life’s roads like to make cookies with their kids. Donate the ready pasta meal you buy for your own desk drawer because it’s the vaguely tastiest kind. If your local food pantry accepts fresh goods, donate a crate of clementines because your kid loves them. Donate the bread you like to eat, because it’s going to taste even better from a toaster oven in a freezing hotel room. Donate dried spices, donate any condiment you can find in a plastic bottle (glass is logistically harder), donate shelf stable lemon- or lime-juice concentrate, because the food of economic disadvantage can get really bland. Donate candy, even if your sense of righteousness says something nutritious would be better. Donate hot chocolate mix with extra marshmallows, just this once.
Because it’s a rough winter out there, and people like hot chocolate. Don’t you?
Selkie’s got it right, as usual.
Man, I used to get guff at work for putting cake mixes and bottles of Ginger Ale in the bins for the food bank. I was like, “Everyone deserves a birthday cake, and everyone gets sick in the winter. If it was your kid, wouldn’t you want to have a cup of ginger ale for when they throw up?”
Also, keep in mind, most food banks can do wonders with cash. Even if it’s only five dollars, or ten, or twenty. They can get more out of that than we can at the store, so sometimes it’s worth checking if you’ve got a bit of spare change.
via:Tumblr http://shamelesslymkp.tumblr.com/post/68859648534

copperbadge:
strangeselkie:
'Tis the season for a wrapping-paper-covered cardboard box in the second floor kitchen, into which (if experience serves) people will mostly put ramen packets.
— this is mostly not on purpose; our company’s wage to cost of living ratio is very poor —
There will also be bags of beans, rice, rice-a-roni, store-brand salty-rice-o-matic, tinned beans, tinned mashed beans, tinned beans with bits of hot dog in the tin, and that one tin with the label fallen off.
Well, you might say, free is free, and they should be grateful to get it!
…You might say that, and it might be true. But this year, if you can afford it, please donate stuff you might actually want to eat. Donate a bag of chocolate chips because parents on many of life’s roads like to make cookies with their kids. Donate the ready pasta meal you buy for your own desk drawer because it’s the vaguely tastiest kind. If your local food pantry accepts fresh goods, donate a crate of clementines because your kid loves them. Donate the bread you like to eat, because it’s going to taste even better from a toaster oven in a freezing hotel room. Donate dried spices, donate any condiment you can find in a plastic bottle (glass is logistically harder), donate shelf stable lemon- or lime-juice concentrate, because the food of economic disadvantage can get really bland. Donate candy, even if your sense of righteousness says something nutritious would be better. Donate hot chocolate mix with extra marshmallows, just this once.
Because it’s a rough winter out there, and people like hot chocolate. Don’t you?
Selkie’s got it right, as usual.
Man, I used to get guff at work for putting cake mixes and bottles of Ginger Ale in the bins for the food bank. I was like, “Everyone deserves a birthday cake, and everyone gets sick in the winter. If it was your kid, wouldn’t you want to have a cup of ginger ale for when they throw up?”
Also, keep in mind, most food banks can do wonders with cash. Even if it’s only five dollars, or ten, or twenty. They can get more out of that than we can at the store, so sometimes it’s worth checking if you’ve got a bit of spare change.
via:Tumblr http://shamelesslymkp.tumblr.com/post/68859648534
