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Donating canned goods to food pantries is like donating needles and syringes to a cancer research organization (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I visit my local food pantry regularly, so I think I have some perspective.

There's a state run mobile food pantry that makes up boxes of shelf stable foods to give out. It's wonderful, but it's always pretty much the same things every time-- canned corn, peas, tuna, fruit, spaghetti sauce, beans. They are clearly buying staples in bulk to give out, which makes sense for their process.

When I go to my local pantry, which gets a lot of direct donations, I can find a much wider variety of products. Canned chicken, nice soups, ravioli, artichokes, diced tomatoes, etc. It makes for a more varied and interesting diet.

Donating money is great and versatile, but donating canned goods can be valuable too.