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28th edition of the Rappahannock News, there certainly is a need in Rappahannock County.
A typical grocery bag of food
An order each month consists of frozen meats, staple items like pasta, beans, jelly, pancake mix, and fresh fruits and vegetables. Almost every month we've had potatoes, onions and apples. The other vegetables vary depending on what’s in season and what the warehouse can get the best deal on. We’ve had cabbage, peaches, cantelope, carrots, celery, collard greens, tomatoes, etc. Regarding the meats, we’ve had chicken every month, fish or a second meat, usually some type of breakfast meat like bacon or sausage, and usually some type of deli meat like hot dogs, bologna, or pepperoni.
Part of the anticipation is arriving on Delivery Day to see what’s on the menu this month. There’s also a certain degree of comradery amongst the regular participants and volunteers to swap recipe ideas and discuss how you are going to fix such-and-such this month.
The reason we don’t get advance notice of what the groceries will be it depends on what the warehouse gets the best deals on. The staff at the warehouse in D.C. consists of one director and one secretary/assistant. The rest of the staff are volunteers who come in each month to “bag up” the groceries.
Since SHARE deals in cash and little overhead, they’re able to keep the costs low. On the consumer end, everyone pays in cash (no bounced checks to collect, etc.) and on the purchasing end, since the director is paying cash for a tractor trailer load of potatoes, for example, he can negotiate a deal. The provider knows he will get paid in cash, no bills to send and collect, etc. That’s the basic principle.
Overall, I’d say the food has been very good. It’s not “gourmet” (whatever that means!); it’s just simple, wholesome food. One person made the comment one month that all she had to buy that week was milk, eggs and bread. When I consider my own grocery bill some weeks (and I consider myself an economical shopper) I’d say that’s darn good to feed two people for $13 plus the price of milk, eggs, and bread!
The order we received this past month in May was especially good. It contained a package of eight chicken leg quarters which I intended to cook outside on the grill, but due to a rainy weekend, made the oven-fried chicken instead. The order also had pasta, onion, cucumbers and tomatoes which were combined into a pasta salad. The order contained turkey link sausages, cantelope and peaches. I served these as a bowl of fresh fruit, sausages and waffles for Sunday breakfast. They were two menus I created from the
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