Food Pantry - A Contest!

****Update to the Update below:  margalit has chosen the following for the donation.

OK, my choice for being such an astute shopper (heh) is to
donate it to Family Table at Jewish Family and Children's
Services in Waltham. Family Table is the food pantry that serves
the Jewish community.

***Update -The final $ amount I paid at Stop & Slop was $65.81.  Margalit of the always acerbic ever entertaining What was I Thinking came closest at $59.72.  I'll make it her choice where I send the money or drop off more food items.  As always, thanks for playing.

No, I don't mean your food pantry, or my food pantry.  This is the time of year when people begin to think about being charitable.  I don't know why charity seems to have a season, but you can't deny that this time of year your mailbox, and voice mail are filled with organizations seeking contributions.

Husband works up in Beverly and his company sent out a notice that they were accepting contributions for the non-profit Beverly Bootstraps Food pantry.  We could bring any items that were in a can, or dry non-perishable items, but no glass...I wonder why no glass?

On Sunday we hit the local Stop & Spend with every other New Englander readying themselves for the first storm of the season.  In keeping with local traditions the bread aisle looked like it had been assaulted by a hungry army of sandwich makers or perhaps they had all heard about Adam's French Toast Alert System. The milk choices were narrowing down to lactaid and strawberry milk - who drinks strawberry milk?

We had fun wandering up and down the aisles choosing what we thought was a pretty good selection.

I thought to shake things up a little I would propose a contest.  If you can guess what we spent on the items listed below, I will purchase the same amount of groceries again and donate it to another local food pantry or perhaps to a blogger somewhere that I feel could really use the donation.  It will be the winners choice which option is chosen.

The contest is open through Friday December 7, 2007 and I will purchase the items that weekend and show the receipt here after the weekend to show you that I have purchased the items.

Why would you want to participate in a contest where you don't get a prize?  I think you really get something better than a tangible object here, you get to feel good that you have helped a family or families have something on their table this winter and really there is nothing food bloggers like better than seeing food on a table.

1-6 box package of Annie's mac and Cheese
1 box Barilla Rotini
1- Can Bumble Bee Chunk Light Tuna
2- Cans Bumble Bee Chunk Salmon
1-6 pack of Bumble Bee Tuna
Starkist Tuna packet - Lemon pepper
Starkist Tun Packet - Herb and Garlic
Barilla Spaghetti
2- cans Bush's Baked Beans
2- Contadina Tomato paste
2- cans S&S Tomato puree
1- Goya butter Beans
1- S&S cannellini Beans
1 - Goya Dark Kidney Bean
1 - S&S Can of sliced carrots
1 - S&S Can of small peas
1- Goya Vigo Rice with saffron
2- Vigo yellow rice dinner
Zatarain Jambalaya mix
Zatarain Black beans and Rice
Zatarain Dirty Rice
Zatarain Red Beans and Rice
2- cans Hunt's Roasted Diced Tomatoes
1- can Libby Corned Beef
Progresso Minestrone
Progresso Chicken Barley Soup
Progresso chicken with Wild Rice Soup
Progresso chicken Soup with Noodles
Progresso Light vegetable with Barley Soup

Comments

[margalit]

OK, I'll bite. We shop in the same area, and many of these items are things I purchase, so maybe I've got a chance.

1-6 box package of Annie's mac and Cheese $1.29

1 box Barilla Rotini $1.39

1- Can Bumble Bee Chunk Light Tuna $.99

2- Cans Bumble Bee Chunk Salmon Depends on size...small would be 1.39, large would be 3.99

1-6 pack of Bumble Bee Tuna $2.29 for the teeny cans, 5.29 for the 6 oz size

Starkist Tuna packet - Lemon pepper $1.49
Starkist Tun Packet - Herb and Garlic $1.49
Barilla Spaghetti $.99
2- cans Bush's Baked Beans $ 1.79
2- Contadina Tomato paste small, $.79, large $1.29
2- cans S&S Tomato puree small, $99, large $1.39
1- Goya butter Beans $.89
1- S&S cannellini Beans $.89
1 - Goya Dark Kidney Bean $1.19
1 - S&S Can of sliced carrots $.79
1 - S&S Can of small peas $.89
1- Goya Vigo Rice with saffron $1.39
2- Vigo yellow rice dinner $2.39 each
Zatarain Jambalaya mix $1.39
Zatarain Black beans and Rice $1.39
Zatarain Dirty Rice $1.39
Zatarain Red Beans and Rice $1. 39
2- cans Hunt's Roasted Diced Tomatoes small $1.19, large $1.79
1- can Libby Corned Beef no idea... $2.29???
Progresso Minestrone $1.39 on sale
Progresso Chicken Barley Soup $1.59
Progresso chicken with Wild Rice Soup $1.59
Progresso chicken Soup with Noodles $1.59
Progresso Light vegetable with Barley Soup $1.39

[J.H.]

$1 Bob...

Actually, I'll say $56.37.

[Mimi]

I will guess the amount to be $48.76

[Rose]

82.36