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We don't just give out a box of food, we have a market based approach, and the participants get to shop our market and choose the foods they and their families like. We also have cooking classes and a featured recipe that is made from foods currently in the market. Samples are offered to the participants while they are waiting to shop, and there are copies of that recipe available.
But I will mention the idea of focusing on some one pot recipes to the nutritionist, that would be a good thing to offer in a class and sometimes as the sample recipe.
A collection of one pot recipes that can be made on a single burner could be assembled by volunteers at the food bank and given out along with the food. It wouldn't take much room to store or be a big hassle to carry home either. One big meal that you have for dinner for the entire week. My wife does this for my lunch...makes a soup or casserole on Sunday night and serves it to me all week. Works well.
Not sure why the article had to try to make it a racial issue though.
you must not be familiar with vox. everything is a racial issue to them.
i'm thinking these food pantries should be giving out used slow-cookers.
We don't just give out a box of food, we have a market based approach, and the participants get to shop our market and choose the foods they and their families like. We also have cooking classes and a featured recipe that is made from foods currently in the market. Samples are offered to the participants while they are waiting to shop, and there are copies of that recipe available.
But I will mention the idea of focusing on some one pot recipes to the nutritionist, that would be a good thing to offer in a class and sometimes as the sample recipe.
This sounds extremely helpful to people and hopefully avoids wasting items people wouldn't really want.
Why did this need to be made into a "mostly white, mostly male" issue? Or what amounts to pointing fingers at people who write about things that work for them, and may work for others, maybe not. Of course it won't work for everyone, like the people living in a hotel. It's cooking, people do it or they don't.
You never hear those who sit on their @sses enjoying the technologies and comfort of their everyday lives decrying the creators of those things as "mostly white, mostly male."
A collection of one pot recipes that can be made on a single burner could be assembled by volunteers at the food bank and given out along with the food. It wouldn't take much room to store or be a big hassle to carry home either. One big meal that you have for dinner for the entire week. My wife does this for my lunch...makes a soup or casserole on Sunday night and serves it to me all week. Works well.
Not sure why the article had to try to make it a racial issue though.
Many camping recipes would fill this bill - how to make a nutritious meal using shelf-stable foods. In other words, access to a refrigerator is not assumed.
Even most homeless people can find a way to cook hot food with a pot from goodwill and a hobo stove.
Michael Pollan is one of my favorite authors, and his recommendations about food are dead on. But his audience has always been middle- and upper-class people who have choices and the time and means to exercise those choices.
I sure wouldn't feel like cooking if I came home after cleaning other people's houses for 8 hours and spending 2 hours on the bus commuting.
[quote=jacqueg;54605731]Many camping recipes would fill this bill - how to make a nutritious meal using shelf-stable foods. In other words, access to a refrigerator is not assumed.
Even most homeless people can find a way to cook hot food with a pot from goodwill and a hobo stove.
Michael Pollan is one of my favorite authors, and his recommendations about food are dead on. But his audience has always been middle- and upper-class people who have choices and the time and means to exercise those choices.
I sure wouldn't feel like cooking if I came home after cleaning other people's houses for 8 hours and spending 2 hours on the bus commuting.[/QUOTE]
Meh, I work 8 hour days and commute an hour and a half, then travel some more to take the kid to ball practice and what not and still cook most every day. When its too hectic I cook meals on the weekend and freeze or have leftovers part of the week.
Meh, I work 8 hour days and commute an hour and a half, then travel some more to take the kid to ball practice and what not and still cook most every day. When its too hectic I cook meals on the weekend and freeze or have leftovers part of the week.
And that means you've got a working stove, pots and pans and knives and other cooking tools and storage containers and a big enough kitchen including a functional and large enough fridge/freezer to keep it all in. Not to mention can afford to purchase enough food at one time to cook large meals with leftovers to store and freeze.
Not everyone has access to all the things you have access to even if they aren't homeless but it's easy to not realize all of this unless you are actually talking to some of those people and hearing their stories like the landlord refusing to fix the stove for over a year.
And that means you've got a working stove, pots and pans and knives and other cooking tools and storage containers and a big enough kitchen including a functional and large enough fridge/freezer to keep it all in. Not to mention can afford to purchase enough food at one time to cook large meals with leftovers to store and freeze.
Not everyone has access to all the things you have access to even if they aren't homeless but it's easy to not realize all of this unless you are actually talking to some of those people and hearing their stories like the landlord refusing to fix the stove for over a year.
Most of those stories are just lame excuses. Fix the damn stove yourself then go after the reimbursement later.
Most of those stories are just lame excuses. Fix the damn stove yourself then go after the reimbursement later.
Sure, because the people who need to use the services of a food bank are just rolling in money and can afford to hire someone to fix an appliance they don't own and hope that the same landlord who has refused to fix it will politely reimburse them for their troubles.
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