I live in a small town in Southern Colorado and once a month there is a food box day. The foods are donated by
the grocery chains from the surrounding area. The foods are can goods, sacks of rice and beans, some sweets
and candy. fruits and vegetables.
You have to very careful of any damage of the cans, and expiration dates. I throw these out.
Depending how big the family is, more groceries they get.
The town once supported by coal mines and the last mine closed in the 1960's. available jobs are very scarce.
leaving many depending on welfare and many senior citizens living on social security.
One thing living in a small town in the middle of know where, there is hardly any crime and the problems of
the big cities.
I think it's a great idea for the grocery chains to donate food. I work part-time in a grocery store bakery, and we donate a lot of food to the food bank. The whole grocery section donates a lot. There's a lot of good food that is thrown out, too. It's sad that after 7:00 pm at night, they have to throw away all of the freshly fried chicken from that day, and sometimes they throw a lot of it away, even though it's half-price after 6:00pm.
Dry goods are actually good for quite awhile after their expiration date - as much as a year.
I recall reading that in England before the reformation there, that the government required that the farmers give a percentage of their crop to the poor who needed food. The Catholic church was given the duty of distributing the food. And then after the English reformation, there were no longer and religious to distribute the food, and the practice fell by the wayside, unfortunately.
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