goodness everyone welcome to the food pantry throw away for December so much
stuff and let me tell you what there was hardly anybody there
so after everybody took what they want there was truckloads of stuff still
there this is just amazing so what I'm going to do is what I do every single
month I will show you what it looks like then I'm going to categorize everything
and then show you what it looks like outside the box once again I'm going to
give you a disclaimer for those of you who don't seem to understand once a
month all the food pantries in our local area they put all the food that they
could not give away and it was surplus food it was leftover food so what they
do is they bring it all together and then a truck picks it up gives it to all
of us here in the local community we can go through it and pick what we want
offer this and this is what I will show you in my videos taking all food making
it all new again so give me one moment I'm gonna unbox all of this stuff and
then I'll show you what we got this month and I got some produce
yeah they I got some produce as you know last month there wasn't any produce so
I'm really really happy box number one for grocery bags full of different kinds
of food box number two and box number three so
what do we have to eat this month follow everybody I have everything in
categories and I'm gonna share with you step by step what I got also going to
share with you what you're gonna see in videos because my cooking videos always
center around what I can get for free and so while I'm not dumpster diving I
initially em like dumpster diving because this food was going to be thrown
away so I'm gonna take a moment and explain to you a little bit better why I
get this food and how I get this food in our local County we have a lot of food
pantries and what happens is at the end of each month whatever food is left in
their food pantries they will donate to one central location so this food is
expired but it has about a day or two left
and what happens at the end of the month a truck will come and pick up all of
these items that the food pantry wasn't able to give away that food truck then
comes to a local church and it's open for everyone in the community to take
one last time what is left and after today what is left goes to an animals of
a farm or it gets thrown away canned goods get thrown away produce gets given
to the animals and so while this farmer doesn't need this stuff to feed his
animals this is our local way of trying to keep food from the dumpster but some
food does get still thrown away and I can't take everything and not many
people come to this those that come they get a few things and they leave so I'm
doing something different every month I'm teaching people showing people that
you can freeze things you can recan things you can preserve things even
longer a lot of people who come to this food pantry have no idea they don't know
that you can freeze things they don't know that you can recant things they
don't know that you can preserve your things and so they only take a little
bit but each month I'm sharing with them how usually be more self-sufficient and
you know what self-sufficiency can come in all forms and one of the forms are by
gleaning food gleaning food oftentimes means taking food that's left in the
garden or it's left in the farm field but the word gleaning means to take and
it means to harvest and harvesting can be many different areas gleaning can be
taking things out of a dumpster because you are taking it and you are using it
you're harvesting it whether it is fresh produce or it's canned food if you're
taking it and you're repurposing it you're gleaning from it so let me show
you what all we got all right we're gonna start with on the right hand side
we have all kinds of tomatoes raspberries and blueberries milk the
milk expired yesterday that's fine because you can freeze milk and use it
for cooking all of this broccoli which I'm really thankful for because I'm
going to show you how i blanch it and freeze it all
these salads they don't expire until the second so they're really good yet and
the filming of this it is December 28th I got cupcakes I got pies I got a decent
flower which I got a lot of that nobody wanted that in the back here we got some
number 10 cans I'm going to show you how you can recant food that's going to be
something I think a lot of you really enjoy watching we have a lot of
mushrooms different kinds of bacon we have turkey bacon
we have Canadian bacon and we have regular bacon over on this table we have
some chips more bacon and more a decent flour here we have some breads now some
of these breads are expired but they will go to my chickens
oh so this is really such a blessing to me and seeing all this food reminds me
so much about how we must not be wasteful in life and you know it's
really sobering to think about all the children that are hungry in other
countries and how much as us as Americans and Canadians how we throw
things away and my videos I want to instill in you a worth of keeping what
you have and preserving it don't be wasteful in this earth so many
times people complain that they don't have any money I don't have money for
this I don't have money for that but how much are they throwing out their back
door you know there's a saying that a man brings in the income in the front
door while the woman throws it away in the back door that was the same from the
1930s and what it means is you know we can make an income and bring it in but
if we waste our food we're throwing that income away and so I want to share with
you ways to not be wasteful and I think it's a sad thing in this world I don't
want to get on a soapbox because I can because there's no home economic in
these schools and they're not teaching women or n men how to preserve foods and
how to take care of the things that they have we're living in a highly consumable
market the consumable market is buy it now if you don't like it throw it away
tomorrow look at our Christmas look at all the things that people buy each
other for Christmas how much of that is in the yard sale six months later you
know we need to really think about especially with food there's so much we
can do with food and people don't realize it it and going to this food
pantry really opened my eyes about how little people know about preserving food
and how little people know about taking care of yourself and you know when
things are brought to you like this this is a blessing but you need to learn how
to take care of it and you also need to learn how to keep it for the next month
all of this food is basically organic food and that's the reason why we get it
organic food is because it's food that can't last as long
so at the end of the month it was spoiled quicker this is all working it
and that's what comes to us so wow it's very good food it's food that needs to
be taken care of immediately because it is organic it's not sprayed and that's
what's ending up back here in these landfills because organic food is food
that's very expensive but yet it's food that's not preserved
and so the food doesn't last very long oh it's something to think about you
know the organic food is great but it's so expensive people can't afford it and
then the long run it gets wasted you know there needs to be something
different about the organic food that we find in the stores because you need to
make it more affordable for people that way people can buy it and that way they
can consume it and then it doesn't end up here you know right now what you see
there probably was a hundred times this amount that was still left over and
while we are so happy that the animals get the produce you know but what
happens to this this gets thrown away afterwards because they don't take it
back to the warehouse because they don't have room we amend my land of plenty and
so there's so much food being rotated every single day and so their warehouses
get full with fresher food I'm thankful for this opportunity because I know I
won't have this forever I know regulations will come to a time
when I won't be able to have this but because it's church governed it's a
little different you know so I'm just really thankful for this and I'm
thankful for all of you right now I counted twenty people who are doing what
I'm doing because of my videos and for that I think I did making an impact on
the world because people aren't seeing what I do and they are calling their
local areas and they are finding out hey can they do this as well and a lot of
people have said it's a success for them so get ready for some videos because I'm
going to teach you how to take old food and make it new again hmm
now there is a different concept that you're not gonna hear every day turning
on food and making it new again I bet you want to see that now don't you take
care of the one we'll see you guys tomorrow all right my friends so here's
them photos and you've all been waiting for it all started with a group of men
from church decided what can they do with all the food
they see that's being wasted some of the member farmers some of the men were
truckers a lot of these men went to produce auctions and would see all the
food that nobody wanted to buy and they decided to get together and do something
to make it different and impact here in the 200 mile radius of where I live I
live in a very conservative area of Pennsylvania and we have so much plenty
with farming in all kinds of ways so they decided to do something every
single day they get food by the truckloads from various places in
Pennsylvanian all around and they have a huge warehouse now every day they pack
the boxes for people that are in need these are for people in need so they
packed hundreds and hundreds of boxes daily and they distributed out to all
kinds of different places food pantries and this is within a 200 mile radius
what you're seeing now are boxes of things for people in need but what
happens when the food pantries are full so what they do is they have a place in
their warehouse where they put all the food in the 28 days that is still good
but yet really needs to get used up once a month a truck comes to a place close
to me and about a hundred and fifty of us gather each month and go through the
food and see if there's anything left salvageable that we can use now this
food is not for the needy people this was all leftover this was one last
effort to try to get this food used up so it doesn't have to be thrown away and
that's how I'm able to get this food it's just a little bit amount of all of
the food that they get and it gives me great pleasure in knowing that I'm the
end of a long line of people who get food and at the very end of it I'm the
last person that can actually help these people and help use this food and so I'm
very blessed by it because we live off of it and that's because I'm able to
preserve the food and I have the knowledge and able to do so
and now my goal in life is to teach other people who come to this who have
no idea at the end of the month when the food is a little bit moldy here and
there sometimes strawberries will have one or two more tea ones they don't
understand and I'm here to tell them and teach them and show them that the food
is still good you just have to learn what to do with all this food so this is
the central warehouse and I just get a little bit at the end of a very long
journey of this food and I'm so thankful for it I hope this helps some people
because so many just don't seem to understand no matter how often I explain
it
what people don't understand is we live in a world of Plenty and so much of our
food is being thrown away in fact they say over 50% of the food that is
manufactured and harvested here in the United States of America gets thrown
away and here it was just some plain men who decided to make a small difference
and the way they can do this is because their nonprofit organization and the
churches help support them and I'm thankful for them and I'm thankful that
I am able to take one last look at this food and able to fill my pantries and to
teach others the wonderful way of gleaming food and preserving it for
years to come
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