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area food banks
What are the "best" food banks in the area? How do I find out which ones are in the most need, or are they all running low at any given time (that would be my guess)?
I've worked with Mission for All Nations (now Heartland Hope Missions) in South O, but I also wondered if there was a slightly more geographically closer food bank I could donate to or work with. I'm in north central Omaha and am frequently in the midtown area.
I don't really know how to go about finding these things out in a reliable way via Google so I thought I would try here.
Blythe, born 6/5/10, and Oscar the dog (not pictured), adopted 11/16/07
Re: area food banks
This is a really great question! I was really excited to get to work with our local food bank on a project after all of the flooding started. Right before we were too start work on donations, they stopped taking donations other than money. It seems that people were using it as a place to dump the food they didn't want. 80% of what they were taking in was expired. Hearing that made me sick to my stomach.
This. It's bad. People also tend to donate a lot of ramen noodles and TONS of random soups in a box, cream of chicken, etc.
I am one of the weird people who likes it when our local little Hy-Vee does a food drive. They have printed lists of what their largest needs are. Cooper always grabs one of the little carts and I grab a regular cart. He puts the food bank stuff in his cart. He thinks that it is pretty cool that he gets to buy groceries for other people.