The price of food is not getting any cheaper. The higher prices of eggs, dairy, meat, and other products are now creating a higher demand at local food banks.
FILE - KOMO News staff volunteered at Food Lifeline in Seattle on April 12 and sorted over 26,000 pounds of food. The food will now be distributed to over 400 food banks, pantries, shelters, distribution sites and meal programs across western Washington.
They also partner with many retailers, accepting their surplus food to get out of food banks. Large shipments of dairy and other refrigerated foods arrived Friday afternoon from Amazon Fresh and Safeway-Albertsons. Volunteers sorted it all by category into crates on pallets for forklift operators to move into the refrigerated area of the Hunger Solution Center.
While Elise and her mom worked on rice, other volunteers worked on sorting huge bins of pears. They chucked the bad ones into a compost bin and put the rest in 40-pound boxes, a more manageable size for food banks to pick up and then store. “It feels like we’re doing a lot to help the local community, especially last week when we finished. Even in just two hours, we were able to repackage almost 300 pounds of rice, and they were telling us that was going to be sent out in like the next couple of days,” Bailey Ellison told KOMO News while sorting pears in the Hunger Solution Center.
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