Leaving for a Long Trip? Empty Your Fridge with Food Donation

April 12, 2012 at 1:23 PM | by JetSetCD | Comments (0)

Here's an idea: When you're about to leave for a big trip but find it hard to gobble down all the perishable food in your fridge and pantry, donate it to a local organization who'll feed it to people who aren't fortunate enough to be off on a big trip.

In big cities, Food Banks will happily accept individual donations while, in small cities, you'll have to give your local soup kitchen a call. In New York City, where residents are constantly impulse-buying yummies at Duane Reade without remembering that they're jetting off on a business trip the next day, the Food Bank of NYC has clearly outlined rules for such donations:

All items to be donated must be:
· In their original, unopened packages
· Within the expiration date on the package
· In plastic jars or containers, not glass

The glass bit does pose a concern, since you wouldn't then be able to donate perfectly good, unopened jars of Emeril Lagasse's pasta sauce. Still, looking in our fridge pictured above, we'd be able to donate the dozen eggs, the boxed soup, the bag of salad and the one unopened package of soba noodles. This goes a long way towards preparing for a trip just as it does much to benefit a few hungry New Yorkers.

Of course there's the airplane-size bottles of booze too, but we'll just have to save those for our return.

[Photo: Jaunted]

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