Stamp Out Hunger food drive
I know I've done my fair share of over-ambitious food planning (and buying a few too many cans of diced tomatoes from Costco in anticipation of making tons of homemade meals). The letter carrier is making it easy for me to donate by coming by to pick up the food. How much simpler could it be? If you've got food at home that you don't think you'll get to anytime soon, consider contributing. It's a easy way to help those in need (too bad they can't bring it to Burma). I'm all for recycling and reusing things that still have good mileage in them (it's just hard to lug everything to the donation centers sometimes). So this is perfect for me.
Here's the scoop:
On Saturday May 10th, letter carriers in more than 10,000 communities will collect food items and deliver them to local food banks to help some of the millions of Americans, including an estimated 13 million children, who face hunger every day.
Since 1993, families have donated more than a half-billion pounds of food to Stamp Out Hunger. You can help make this year our most successful ever. Simply place bags filled with nonperishable food items like canned meats and fish, canned soup, juice, pasta, vegetables, cereal and rice next to your mailbox on Saturday, May 10th. Your letter carrier will pick up the bags and deliver them to your local food bank. Please do not include out-of-date items or those in glass containers.
Make it easy and fill your bags now and place it near your front door so you don't forget.