Roasted Peppers with Garlic and Herbs

peppers at the Food Bank Roasted Peppers with Garlic and Herbs Adapted from Martha Stewart Every Day Food Ingredients 4 bell peppers (any color), cut in half, seeds removed 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano Coarse salt Ground black pepper Fresh basil leaves, torn or roughly chopped [...]

Warehouse crew hops to it, distributing 108,000 eggs for Easter!

Our warehouse is really hopping! Dave & Al helped move 108,000 eggs out to needy families for Easter. It’s EGGxactly what we were hoping for this Easter! California egg farmers hatched a plan to donate 108,000 fresh eggs to the SF Food Bank. Our crack (but not egg-cracking!) warehouse crew got into the holiday spirit [...]

The mother of all Thanksgiving shopping lists!

You’re probably reading over your favorite family recipes and putting together a Thanksgiving shopping list this week. Well, how would you like to have this list?   34,000 Chickens   80,000 Pounds of yams 100,000 Pounds of potatoes   80,000 Pounds of apples   30,000 Pounds of carrots   35,000 Pounds of cabbage   70,000 [...]

San Francisco Food Bank ‘Egg-static’ over large egg donation

Today, the San Francisco Food Bank received 88,650 eggs just in time for Easter from NuCal Foods. They were all  sourced locally from a farm in Petaluma, CA.  Fresh eggs are always a prized item for Food Banks due to their dense nutritional and high protein content.  And they’re one of the hardest food categories [...]

Giant celery!

Here’s something you won’t see at the supermarket: a thicket of giant celery! Its size may render it unmarketable – but it’s still perfectly fresh, perfectly good and ready to go out to our pantries. Many people still associate canned and dry foods with food banks. And while we still have staple foods like pasta, [...]

Bike Riders Bring in 7,507 Pounds of Food!

We’re used to having big tractor-trailer trucks roll up to the San Francisco Food Bank’s loading dock – that’s how most of the 36.5 million pounds of food moving through our warehouse this year will arrive. But last Saturday, 7,507 pounds of food showed up on some very different wheels – bicycles! It was thanks [...]

Today’s Fruit of the Day – Grapes!

1,980 cases of grapes came in today thanks to the Farm to Family program and SunWorld packers! That’s 15,840 bags of sweet, seedless grapes. Here they are in our cooler – 22 pallets, all tagged for delivery to a neighborhood pantry.

One of these things is just like the other

The only difference between these two cans of chicken broth is the label. But that makes all the difference in the world to a food retailer. We’re able to accept donations like the “shiner” on the left because of all of the wonderful volunteers who labelled and repacked this can…and the 48,000 others like it. [...]

First Stone Fruit of the Season!!!

It’s officially summer at the Food Bank – we’ve just received our first stone fruit of the season! Thanks to Simonian Fruit out in Fowler, CA for 38,000 pounds of fresh peaches. And thanks to the volunteers who are going to sort through it all and make sure only the best go out to our [...]

40,320 lbs. of artichokes in today!

That’s over 20 tons of farm-fresh green globe artichokes – one entire tractor-trailer full. All were unloaded, sorted by our warehouse staff and volunteers and will be out the door tomorrow. Thanks to our hard-working crews of volunteers from PG&E and Bingham McCutchen LLP for helping to sort them!