Jude 2

I happened across this ministry today and thought I'd share.

They sell food boxes at greatly reduced prices through bulk buying. No income requirements or anything. Just place an order and pick it up. Something to add to your resource list (or use yourself like I'm planning to) if you have a distribution center near you.

Anyone have any experience with them?

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Yes, I do.

A few people from my church use them. Sometimes it's worth it and sometimes it's not. It works like the old "Share" program only you don't have to put in the two volunteer hours.

The food is decent usually. The quality is sometimes a little low.
(kinda like some of the stuff at aldi's or a grocery store like that)

for those that have trouble sticking to buying neccesities versus a lot of luxury food items it is a pretty good way of managing food budgets.

But hey, I used to be a four star chef so....

Shellie wrote: Sometimes it's worth it and sometimes it's not.

This is correct. Some brochures for the ministry were recently left at my grocery store. Upon looking at them, I noticed that I am actually cheaper on some of the frozen meat deals.

pa

there are a couple churches in our region doing this. but there are more of us that have our own food pantry's. which, in my opinion, is a much better "deal" all around. I do realize that's not always possible, though.

We took part of this for awhile and enjoyed it.

Our previous church was a distribution point. We didn't purchase boxes, but I know the community loved it. In the 1st 2-3 distribution days we grew to over 600 boxes. If your church participates as a distribution center, you receive $1 for every box, at least that's what it was when we did it. We also had a food bank.

Jinjer

This is popular in our area as well, it's not the same as a food bank, this isn't based on need or anything that way, but is just bulk purchasing. If you like the items listed for that month, it usually works out to be a pretty good deal on the main box (the add-ons can be different every month, sometimes good, sometimes you could do better) If you're a picky eater, then the main box may have things you don't want, and the cost savings wouldn't be as good with the waste.

All in all a pretty good program, we've looked at it, but haven't really done much with it. Although a local church did use that as their Thanksgiving basket giveaway this year, they bought the special turkey dinner boxes for needy families.