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Second Food Drive Exceeds First Year's Total

I finally had time to add up the food drive donations from 2023! We donated a total of 99,037 calories , or 49.5 days of food! Between food drives, there was another 35.7 days of food donated, and in the 2022 drive 30.2 days of food donated. In total, we have donated 115.41 days (3.8 months) of food since we started in 2022, plus cash and toiletries. The full list of 2023 annual food drive donations is below. Thank you to all who contributed! ·       63 servings of oatmeal ·       44 servings of grits ·       20 boxes of spaghetti or penne ·       20 cans of soup ·       20 corn tortillas ·       5 packages of ramen ·       8 jars of peanut butter ·       8 boxes of cereal ·       6 quarts of almond milk ·       30 cookie packets · ...
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We did it! First food drive a success!

 Thank you to everyone who contributed to the food drive for Michael's first yahrzeit. Based on what everyone has written to me, the following items were donated by all of us together: Grand total of 60,446 kcal, or 30.22 days of food (on a standard 2,000 kcal per day diet), enough to feed an individual for an entire month!!!  44 packs of flavored grits 12 cans Progresso chicken noodle soup 12 cans Campbell's beef barley soup 12 cans Campbell's vegetable beef soup 8 boxes of spaghetti 3 boxes elbow macaroni 2 boxes farfalle 2 boxes rotini 1 bag soup noodles 3 family size boxes of Frosted Flakes 1 large size box of Cheerios 6 quarts of Silk almond milk 1 quart unsweetened chocolate Almond Breeze 1 package white sugar 9 packets of pancake mix tampons sanitary pads 40 razors 3 cans of shaving cream 4 bottles of mouthwash $36 to a local foodbank  And that's just counting the items people told me about! <3
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