Frozen foods will be offered at Food Share
By Linda Lemmon
Town Crier Editor
Midwest Food Bank New England is planning on bringing a good bit of frozen food when they deliver Thursday morning to the Danielson Veterans Coffeehouse Food Share.  The drive-through Food Share line usually opens about 9:30 a.m. at the farmers market pavilion off Kennedy Drive. All are welcome.
Bruce Hay, the coffeehouse’s organizer for the Food Share, said Midwest has let him know already that they will have frozen food on the truck. Generally, Hay said that means frozen pizza, frozen chicken and the like.
Midwest also brings canned goods including vegetables.
The Connecticut Food Share truck also comes on Thursday morning and Hay said they usually bring produce among many other foods.
Beyond that, Hay never knows what else would be on the trucks until they start unloading at the pavilion. Hay makes assessments of which food goes to which “production lines” — the volunteers who pack the food into bags and boxes.
He said he’s already picked up donated soda — two pallets of it. He expects to be able to give each person passing through a 12-pack of soda.
In addition the Food Share will offer various kinds of drinks like iced coffee, Gatorade and more. Chips and snacks are also a staple of the Food Share.
One set of items he knows he’ll have coming for the next Food Share, in April, is cereal. He said he got a call from TEEG, which is running a cereal collection and they offered cereal. But it will arrive just after this Thursday’s Food Share finishes so he’ll put it aside for the April Food Share. “We’ll be happy to have it.”
In spite of the bitter cold, the February Food Share helped 235 in need. Hay said rain is possible for Thursday. “I’ll take the rain over the cold.”

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