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FoodBank Detail

4/12/2015

 
Almost every week my boy and I head down to the Foodbank to spend three hours helping out.   It's a regular event for us, it gives us a chance to reach out to the community as well as meet new people.  :)
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When we started at the Foodbank it was just the lad and I helping out on Wednesdays.   And there were a few times when it got a bit nutty... SO busy with people coming in needing help, and trying to keep up when it was just the two of us was a challenge, but in the past month we've had help!   She's a nice lady from another church in the area.

The Foodbank is run by the area churches.   We serve clients from all around South Huron.. so Huron Park, Credition, Exeter and so forth.   

The people who come in are from all walks of life.    Some come in with smiles, others come a bit grumpy, others come in very shyly and others come in boldly.   Some come in wanting to be helpful and will do work first before accepting any help.   And still others come in all apologetic because they really don't want the help that we offer, but have children in need of feeding.

It doesn't matter who or why or how.   We give enough food for three days and try to send people away with a smile.    It's all good.   Large families, small families, single people and more.   We are there to lend a helping hand.
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Why Do we help?
For a couple of different reasons.
1. God calls us to help others.   To serve others in whatever way we can.  This is a tangible way that we can reach out to those around us and help them in a way that is good and useful.
2. I've been there, done that.  I've been in a position of needing the foodbank in other town and place.  Injured from work and between jobs.  The foodbank helps.
3. It's good to help a lad learn to help others.
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What do we do?

  1. We divide big items into smaller ones.  Cutting egg cartons in half, putting oatmeal and sugar into smaller more usable bags, and so forth.   Sometime we get these great big bags of french fries that could feed three families for three days, so we divide those bags into smaller ones so more people can be assisted.
  2. We stock shelves.  Put on display items that the area Food distributors bring us and that the community donates to us.
  3. We rotate stock.  We aren't supposed to hand out expired goods if we don't have a need to, so we need to keep those off the shelves.
  4. We carry items out to cars.
  5. We load grocery items into bags, double bagging them for those who walk. We sometimes get in an abundance of those bags stores give away all the time.. those plastic or cloth reusable bags.  Those are so nice to pack groceries into for those who walk.
  6. We keep things neat and tidy... sweeping floors, wiping tables, clearing snow, chasing out any mice (more like catching them and disposing of them).  Keeping windows clean, cleaning shelves and what not.

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What does my lad do?
When we aren't busy, he completes his school work.   It's nice to get it done before we get home cause then he's free for the rest of the day.  :)
When we are busy he helps to pack bags and carry things out to vehicles.
He stocks shelves when we get supplies in.
He fills bins to make it easier to quickly serve customers when they come in.
And he is most excellent at making badly dented cans more badly dented as they find there way into the disposal.  :)    
He is also our floor sweeper, egg divider and helper at anything we ask of him.   He's such a useful helpful lad to have around.

What have we learned?
1. Past expiry food should not be handed out to people BUT just because something is past expiry doesn't mean it's gone bad.   We deliberately hand it out, but we can make people aware of it and allow them to take it if they like.  Canned goods are good for up to 10 years past expiry, the worst that tends to happen is the flavour might not be the same.   That said... once it's five years past I toss it.  My figuring is if I won't eat it, I won't offer it to someone else.   :)
2. People donate expired goods frequently.   I don't understand this.   I love it when we get in goods that aren't expired...they are so easily put to good use.  :)
3. Fresh foods are desired.   Apples, oranges, cucumbers, potatoes, meat, potatoes, milk, eggs and such like.   When we have them people are so happy to get them.
4. There are a lot of interesting people in my area that I've never met before and it's nice to have more faces that I recognize.   The other day we were out and my son recognized one of our customers and said a very pleased "hello" to the fellow.  

Today's Efforts in Learning

2/4/2015

 
Wednesday's are different days for us.

We start our day usually rushing madly out the door to get to the Foodbank.  Somedays we manage to have breakfast before we leave and other times we kinda scrounge for things at the Foodbank (which they are totally cool with).

This morning was one of those mornings of Granola bars, fruit and a juice box.  :)

We had a good day at the Foodbank.   We had numerous folks show up for assistance and they all left happy.   We might have a back up person to help distribute food on Wednesday mornings.   WOOT WOOT.   We also had time to start organizing food by expiration date.  My goodness.. we had lots of tuna that will be good until 2019!   And the salmon until 2018.   We had about 20 cans that man.. I wish the canning companies would put readable expiration dates on them!!!!   It's hard to know what to do with those cans so I generally put them where they will be used up first.
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When we got ack from the Foodbank it was time for a quick lunch.   We like to listen to Classics for Kids while we eat.   Today we learned about Benjamin Britten.   My lad didn't seem to be particularly interested in Britten's music but i thought it a run listen. :)

After Classics for Kids we turned our attention to GPA Learn and Standard Deviants for Science.  GPA is a new math program that we are reviewing that my son was quite excited to try out.   So far he likes it, he particularly likes the reward aspect of it.  Mom.. Will I get those all the time?   I responded with "I don't know, you know as much as I do at this point.".    :)   He does get frustrated when I don't have all the answers.  :)     Standard Deviants is the program we used last year to learn earth sciences.  My lad enjoyed it.  The nutrition class that he's doing right now he is not as keen on.   It uses a lot of big words that are quite similar so he's having a hard time keeping it all straight.

For his one helpful task of the day, he chose to make my bed (as I neglected to do so this morning).  He didn't know what to do with the top sheet so he simply took it off.  :)   Made me laugh and he chortled with glee.  :)

Since he didn't do his 20 minutes of reading yesterday he needed to do 40 minutes today.      he struggled with what to read and finally said "mom, do you have a minecraft book on the tablet I can read?"  This led him to learn how to find the kindle app and to learn how to scroll through the books to find what he wanted.   He was quite pleased with his end selection.  WOOT WOOT for free books for the kindle!!!!    :)

So we didn't do all our dailies.... but if we do so on Wednesday we aren't done our schooling until about 4 o'clock and that puts everything way behind.  This way the lad is happy as he doesn't need to do his dailies, I'm happy since I can do other stuff and the lad is free to earn additional time for playing Minecraft.   No complaints and a smoother running household.  :)

How did your homeschooling go today?



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