Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive on May 12th: Donate Your Non-Perishable Food Items

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   Janell May 9, 2018 at 10:11 am MST

   I have baby food jars. Are those fine to leave out?

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  Renee May 9, 2018 at 10:49 am MST

  Yes! Our local food bank is always in need of baby food

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   Chris May 9, 2018 at 10:39 am MST

   I work at a soup kitchen. Think about donating can tuna or can chicken, mayonnaise, dry drink mixes. Cream of mushroom, cream of chicken soup make good gravy bases. Spaghetti sauce, tomato sauce and dry pasta are great. Please don’t give outdated can goods. We don’t serve it.

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  Amber (Hip2Save Sidekick) May 9, 2018 at 10:59 am MST

  Thanks for all of the great suggestions Chris! Good to know!

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  Elaine May 9, 2018 at 11:05 am MST

  Expiration date rules vary. My food pantry served stuff past the best by date. We went off of the guidelines set by the government. I believe it was 2 years for canned goods.

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  Rebecca May 9, 2018 at 11:54 am MST

  Thanks, I didn’t think about dry drink mixes.

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  JenB May 11, 2018 at 6:40 am MST

  The Delaware food bank takes items that are expired up to a year

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  Cindy May 11, 2018 at 1:53 pm MST

  Interesting info. The food pantry I work at, does give out items past Expiry dates stamped on products. The expired foods I onlinee across are mostly canned and bottled items. But I’ve also seen things like croutons, rice, quinoa, grated cheese, bread crumbs and even chocolates. Some items as much as 5/6 months past expiry….

  I was wondering if anyone had a website to refer to.

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   Rebecca May 9, 2018 at 11:53 am MST

   We’ve done this before & food was stolen before it could be picked up. And we live in a nice neighborhood…

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  Elastamom May 9, 2018 at 2:09 pm MST

  You still put good into the world. Hopefully it went to someone who needed it. We live in rural town, my mailman Kevin said he only had 4 homes participate. Bummer.

  mailman

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  Dara May 9, 2018 at 3:52 pm MST

  Rebecca, I’m sorry to hear your donation was stolen. I always bring my bag directly to my nearest post office. If you have one conveniently located, I’d reonlinemend that!

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   *Angela-Miles* May 9, 2018 at 4:23 pm MST

   I will have to see what I can find. We participated last year but many of the sacks had been torn open and gone through in my neighborhood. Like they were looking for gold or something :-/ …didn’t take all the items just certain things.
   I just went through the cabinets in March and threw out a sack of stuff that expired last year!

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   Susan Crawford May 9, 2018 at 5:04 pm MST

   I got my bag ready. On my small street, we are the only house that gives. One one of local tv stationfacebook page. Someone made snotty onlinements about “Too bad, I won’t give, people can go hungry”. That makes me sick. I always give, since I do not have to use a food pantry and I cannot imagine being so full of disdain for other people.

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   Jstbeachy May 9, 2018 at 11:18 pm MST

   Cleaned out the pantry tonight-My bag is ready!

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   SJ May 10, 2018 at 1:04 am MST

   Got my bag filled & ready for Saturday!

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   Trace_E May 10, 2018 at 10:22 am MST

   Does the Similac and Enfamil ready to drink formula and those formula cans be accepted? They don’t expire till 2019 and aren’t going to be used here.

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  Trace_E May 10, 2018 at 10:26 am MST

  Found the number to call, 202-662-2489 and they said as late Ng as they’re no open then it’s accepted. Yay!!! So glad I can pass them
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   Sou May 11, 2018 at 9:31 pm MST

   This is great! My husband and I are starting Keto diet and I wanted to get rid of all of the pastas and noodles. So glad this is happening just in time.

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    Kim B May 12, 2018 at 12:35 pm MST

    How about some of that ronzoni gluten free pasta that was free with ibotta!

    We had about 50% of the neighborhood give.

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