I recently read a news story about a school in Moberly, Missouri and it’s effort to help hungry kids this holiday season. The school filled one hundred and six backpacks with food and lined them up in the hallways of the elementary school. The idea is that the children, who would otherwise go hungry, can nonchalantly snag a pack full food and schlep in out without having to be identified as hungry or poor. The school began to realize that while kids were getting breakfast and lunch during the week at school, a lot of them were going hungry over the weekends. The backpacks are filled with kid-friendly, healthy-ish food items that are easy and safe to prepare if an adult is not able to help out. Many kids have single working parents who do not have the time or money to make meals for their kids. This program has actually had a lot of success in the small rural community. Many families that previously needed the assistance from the backpack plan have begun to return the favor after they got back on their feet by bringing extra food items to the school whenever possible.
Just think about all of the cans of food you have shoved back in your cabinets that you will never use or have already expired. It may just be dusty, worthless can of beans to you, but there is sustenance and nutrition in that can that you are obviously lucky enough to not be in need of. Now obviously, you wouldn’t want to donate your expired food items to anybody, throw those away. But if you know you aren’t gonna use any of the non-expired junk in the back of your cabinets (and you know you won’t), why not just give it away?

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