What do you think this service project is?

Every six weeks on a Thursday evening dh and I go to the local LDS Home Storage Center and pack food for the regional food bank.

As you can imagine, it's cheaper for the food bank to purchase beans and rice in 50 pound bags than in 1 pound bags.  As you can also guess, they want to give families 1 pound bags, not 50 pound bags!

The solution is to buy 50 pound bags of beans/rice and thousands of clear plastic bags like the ones newspapers are delivered in, then have volunteers repackage the commodities into 1 pound packages to be given away.  The food bank recently asked for more packages, so the shift increased from one hour to one and a quarter hours.  That's it! 

Last time I went there were a lot of volunteers from both my ward (congregation) and the singles ward, enough that we had 5 lines going and we repackaged 2.5 tons of pinto beans into ~5,000 packages.  We still had 15 minutes to go and could have done more . . . but ran out of plastic bags.


It all sounds like date night to Bill and me, so we usually stop on the way home at our favorite ice cream place, Culver's.

That's all!