Houston Food Bank

I'll bet there are a lot of food insecure people in your area.  The economy is still tough for a lot of people.  If you are in good financial shape, be grateful, but don't forget to lend a hand once in a while to those who are less fortunate.

To that end, I volunteered with my wife's company Saturday for the morning shift at the Houston Food Bank.  This time, we were put in the "Food Prep" room.  Eight tables were each given a one-ton bag of rice and we divided that huge bag up into 2-pound bags, put 8 of those bags into boxes, then filled up a pallet with boxes.  

All in all, the table where we were working boxed up 100 boxes of rice.  At 2 lbs per box, that's 2,000 lbs - a lot of rice.  It's estimated that each bag provides three servings of rice, so, at 800 bags, we just bagged up 2400 servings of rice.  Then multiply that by another seven tables!!

It was hard work.  We were all quite sweaty afterwards, but it's for a very good cause. There were a hundred other things we could have been doing early Saturday morning, but this Saturday morning was devoted to community service.  

I'm sure there is a food bank in your area that could use some volunteer help!  Check it out. You probably have a lot already.  Give something back.

This is a shot of the one pallet that our table bagged up, and we're working on the next one.

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