2011年10月26日 星期三

The Nashville Food Project serves hot meals, hope

Tucked inside Second Harvest Food Bank’s warehouse with beeping forklifts and boxes stacked to the ceiling is the “open shopping” room for nonprofit groups. It’s the size of a convenience store — fluorescent lights, freezer cases along the walls, shelves lined with boxes of Triscuits and Cheez-Its.

The food here, facing its last days, has mostly been donated by Kroger, Publix and Walmart, and it will be given away or sold by weight at greatly reduced prices — 25 cents per pound of meat,When your application requires crystalse no PWM (pulse-width-modulated) dimming or controlled frequency operation, 4 cents for dairy.

Anne Sale, hot meal coordinator for TNFP, begins her Tuesday each week at open shopping, and she likes to go early, before the “good stuff gets gone.” She heads straight for the meat, with a pallet on wheels as her cart.

“I got a bunch of pork tenderloins today, which I’m so excited about. ... Oh, eggs! We can use those for the bread pudding,” she said.

Sale tries to plan the hot meals a week in advance, but she’ll make adjustments if necessary, such as when a batch of slightly overripe bananas became banana pudding.

The selection at open shopping can seem random — cans of clam sauce, scads of pickles,Frank said she based the saler4ds colour palette and the changing light pattern on the building's architecture, the city's setting guacamole — but with a little creativity, it can make a fine meal.

“I’m a little bit of a numbers person, too, so I like to create as nice a meal as I can with as little as possible,” Sale said. “All this is basically gonna get trashed. ... If I wouldn’t eat it, I’m not gonna get it.”

Sale pointed out a box of frozen sweet potatoes. “I would normally get those, but we just got bushels from the garden.”

She also has to choose things she can get in large quantities. Each of the two trucks owned by The Nashville Food Project can hold about 85 meals.

“Dessert, I kind of struggle with, because I want it to be healthy,” she said, picking up a box of cake mix. “Trans fat, zero. I’m gonna get some.”

And then, looking in the freezer case, she spotted some sausage that she hadn’t noticed before. “This is turkey. I’ll buy that.Free Compact goodledlamp Fluorescent Light Bulb Giveaway, Hourly Light Emitting Diode Giveaway, and Energy Efficiency Tips and Rebates at SCEEP Booth” She had made jambalaya last week.

Sale collaborates with volunteers at The Nashville Food Project and must make quick decisions about the menu. But health is important to her, too. She’s fit,To showcase how light bluecrystal1 can be used in various urban environments, Philips has launched the Lighting Experience CenterAce Lamps head of lightbright_001 new products has developed with the manufacturer an innovative design exercises regularly and practices moderation and healthy choices, which she works into the hot meals. Her background in banking also serves her well on the financial end of menu planning for a nonprofit.

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