Posted on 11/17/2021 3:37:42 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Families who rely on food banks, especially during Thanksgiving and Christmas may get smaller servings or substitutions this year as higher costs, lower inventory, increased transportation costs and labor shortages plague the country.
In San Francisco Bay Area, the Alameda County Community Food Bank in Oakland is spending $60,000 more per month on food alone. Combined with the increased demand, it is now shelling out around $1 million a month to distribute 4.5 million pounds of food.
The cost of canned green beans and peaches, for instance, are now up nine percent, while canned tuna and frozen tilapia increased more than six percent. A case of five-pound frozen chickens from holiday tables is up 13 percent, while the price of dry oatmeal climbed 17 percent.
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Too expensive to feed the poor, better cut the Defense budget some more and ship the SPR to China to lower gas prices, but we gotta pay poor felons $150 billion for housing and $1 million to illegal families that can claim they were separated from their kids by the evil CBP. All other can pay more in taxes so all of this will be free.
Noticed it last month in particular.
More bread than anything of nutrition value
Fruits and vegetables were questionable at best
Left me feeling like I should apologize.
Sorry, but it wasn’t like this under Trump or Ivanka’s efforts
What’s a little malnutrition against the cessation of mean tweets?
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