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This hit me at 3am on a random Thursday...

MONEY. WE WANT MONEY. MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY. WE CAN DO SO MUCH WITH IT. WE HAVE ACCESS TO DEALS YOU COULD NEVER. MONEY

That aside.

 I’m only going to talk about food items but if your food bank takes personal items, a lot of times diapers, feminine hygiene products, etc, are very very welcome. 

1) Canned chicken and beef 

looooooove this stuff. It’s expensive, it lasts forever, it tastes good and it can be used a variety of ways. This stuff is fucking catnip to food banks, it’s so hard for us to provide proteins. 

2) Fancy nut butters

Peanut butter is a standby for food banks as a shelf-stable inexpensive protein, but if we have a family with a kid with a peanut allergy that’s not going to work. Non-peanut butters are expensive and it’s something we hardly ever see donated. (we also like peanut butter, but that’s easier for us to buy ourselves than non-peanut butters)

3) Canned or packaged tuna

You may notice a trend here in shelf-stable proteins. And yeah. That’s basically it, so I’m not going to keep harping on it. But this stuff is a godsend. 

4) Easy breakfast things for kids (Granola bars, instant oatmeal, and the like) 

Whatever Donald Trump tells you, most people who get food from food banks are actually working their asses off and so they have to leave Obama to raise their baby or whatever, and they don’t have a lot of time in the morning. Things like this that kids can make for themselves are expensive. (Another trend you may be noticing–donate shit that costs a lot of money. That helps us more than all the shitty green bean cans in the world) But they are so helpful for busy working families where the parents may not have a set schedule and sometimes little Amanda is making her own breakfast before she runs off to school. Don’t let kids go to school hungry. 

5) Shelf-stable juice

Canned chicken, spread out on a plate. The can it came from is held up and off to the side.

Packets and jars of nut butters; specifically peanut butter, almond butter, and hazelnut butter.

Packets of Starkist tunafish.

Quaker instant oatmeal and chewy granola bars.

Eight bottles of V8 juice.

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All gifs are from a scene in Adam Ruins Everything. The scene takes place in a grocery store, and the primary speaker is a woman in a green cardigan. She is speaking to two others; Adam and Emily. All gifs are captioned as following.

“Canned food drives don’t suck, but, they’re not the most efficient way to give.”

“The best way to help a food bank is to donate money because we buy food on a wholesale level, and we work with farmers, so we can take the dollar you might spend… and turn it into exponentially more food.”

A man with at least two crates of vegtables shows up and he says, “Hey, folks! I’ve got a delivery here for one dollar’s worth of food!” The woman in the cardigan says, “I mean, comically large amount of food!”