Food not Bombs or what to do with your potluck leftovers

[Guest guest]

Hello fellow BA veggies,

 

going to vegetarian potlucks, I notice there is usually too much food and it

is left over in serving bowls. As we know, it is terrible to waste

anything, especially food. It maybe impractical for the cook to eat it all,

and (surprisingly enough) some shelter-type organisations won't accept such

food. Facing this dilemma, I looked around the Internet for answers. Here

enters Food-Not-Bombs www.foodnotbombs.net. These fine folk will take

anything you throw at them! They cook vegan food only and feed the homeless

in the streets. Local chapters are:

 

East Bay

c/o Long Haul, 3124 Shattuck, Berkeley,CA, 94705 510-644-4187 or

510/540-0751

ebfnb

http://www.ebfnb.org/

serves: 2:30, M-F in People's Park in Berkeley

Sunday at corner of 14th and Jefferson in downtown

 

San Francisco

P.O. Box 40485, San Francisco, California 94140,

1-415-675-9928

sffnb

http://www.sffoodnotbombs.org/

Serves: Every night 6pm, UN Plaza (8th & Market); Mon. lunch Haight &

Stanyan in GG Park.

 

San Jose

Phone:(408) 314-6669

foodnotbombs_sj

Friday 2:30that's around when we start cooking. We cook at the First

Christian Church in downtown SJ, which is on 5th and San Fernando, across

the street from San Jose State. If you could bring the food over to us at

the church, then we could keep it with us until we serve, which is usually

around 4:30.

 

 

In fact, you may want to serve the homeless with them; it will make your

day I promise you. Money they don't have but heart there is aplenty.

 

In SJ they cook in the shelter at First Christian Church noted above, and in

fact you can leave your food there as well. The shelter has dinner served

every day at 4:30 pm (stretching at least till 6). So, at least in South

Bay, after those weekend potlucks, you can always go there Monday and both

you and your leftover food will be most welcome. They have kitchen to heat

things up.

 

Please forward this to whomever else might be useful but I did not include

 

 

Mark Galecki