A place to donate prepared food?

[Anonymous]

I have a relative with a cooking disorder who dumps 25+ pounds of prepared foods on me every time I visit. I literally cannot fit it into my fridge and don't really want to -- it's typically delicious but not particularly nutritionally sound food. My latest coping mechanism has been to stop at the nearest gas station and throw it all away, but that is not satisfying. Are there any organizations out there that will will accept the food? I've been hunting on line without any success so far.

[Anonymous]

host sunday lunch party? watch game and eat?

[Anonymous]

really no one will or should take any food second hand made by a crazy person, j/s.

[Anonymous]

Grow some testicles and say no thank you to the food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a relative with a cooking disorder who dumps 25+ pounds of prepared foods on me every time I visit. I literally cannot fit it into my fridge and don't really want to -- it's typically delicious but not particularly nutritionally sound food. My latest coping mechanism has been to stop at the nearest gas station and throw it all away, but that is not satisfying. Are there any organizations out there that will will accept the food? I've been hunting on line without any success so far.

I would call local shelters and ask the question. 25 pounds of food shout not be tossed away if "goog" and healthy.

[Anonymous]

Where are you located? There is a great homeless shelter in Rockville that we usually take everything to = and they are always grateful for it!

[Anonymous]

No shelters or soup kitchens will take already cooked food because they don't want to risk someone getting sick. I tried to donate 25 lb. hams that were gifts in the past and they were refused.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No shelters or soup kitchens will take already cooked food because they don't want to risk someone getting sick. I tried to donate 25 lb. hams that were gifts in the past and they were refused.

+1. When I worked at a local soup kitchen, we could not accept already cooked prepared foods due to dept of health regulations. We could get uncooked frozen casseroles/foods that still needed to be cooked, or we needed to get things prepackaged. So we frequently had people try to drop off leftovers from a company picnic or something and even large trays of already cooked foods that were otherwise untouched, we could not accept.

[Anonymous]

OP, you need to adopt a college kid or apartment of kids or find someone with some high-schoolers (preferably boys) because they'll go through that food easily.

Do you have any friends with teen boys or know anyone whose house is the local hang-out for the teens?

[Anonymous]

I don't know where you live OP. I live in DC, and when I have extra food that is nice, I just walk outside and wait for some homeless people to give it to and they always seem to appreciate it. Bottom line, I would never give them anything that I wouldn't consider good enough to eat myself.

[Anonymous]

Look for a smaller org that serves youth and doesn't have a food program. I work for an after school program that serves low-income teens. Because we don't officially serve food, we are subject to the same regulations as orgs with food programs (although we are careful about what we serve them). Our young people are wonderful and love to have extra food after school-and people do bring us good but random food that we really appeciate (we aren't in your area or I would totally take your food).