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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I'm asked to donate to a food drive, I go to Aldi's and buy 2 cardboard flats of something like canned spaghettios ($1 each) or a big flat of macaroni and cheese.

My kids love those foods, and though I don't serve them often (not particularly healthy) I know that kids like them and they are filling and EASY to make, which is why I think that people with kids will like them, too.[/quote]

I don't understand this. Why donate something with no real nutritional value and something that will cause health problems later on? You may serve those once in a while but chances are the kids you are donating to eat that sort of stuff all the time. [/quote]

Because these are the foods I know that are a) shelf stable and b) large numbers of kids reliably like and c) are extremely easy to just heat and serve.  I know when I am in a hurry and can't even think straight, i.e am overwhelmed, it is a lot easier to just open a can of something and feed it to the kids than to take the time to cook something that they may or may not like.

Sure a bag of brown rice and some dried kidney beans would be way cheaper; but it takes more skill to turn those into foods into meals kids like unless they are accustomed to it.   And those are foods that are very cheap to buy at the grocery store with food stamps, anyhow.

I tend to feed my kids meals with more fresh ingredients, but those are not the types of foods food banks are looking for.   They want shelf-stable items.

I also donate a lot of cooking oil and dish soap.[/quote]

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