Question and Answer

From my email:

On Mar 7, 2010, at 5:37 PM, cc wrote:

random question do you ever what anything else? every week we put something in but if I am out of tuna, we bring soup. Once we brought mayo. Is that helpful or difficult for you? thanks, CC

Dear CC,

Thanks for your question. The way the system works, we are responsible for 70 boxes of crackers and 70 cans of tuna each month, 11 months of the year.( In August it is too hard to find volunteers to deliver the food so recipient families are sent supermarket gift certificates.) Soup is one of the foods that another congregation collects so it is fine for me to bring in but it does not get us to our goal of 70 tunas and 70 crackers. Mayo is not one of the foods distributed by Family Table, so it ends up in a miscellaneous pile.

With about 50 organizations collecting foods, and over 100 households receiving food, there needs to be a system, otherwise people would end up with an unpredictable assortment each month. Family Table wants people to know what they can expect each month so they can plan better.

So, it is better just to bring tuna and crackers. So far this year, every month we receive more than enough tuna, but we seem to be short on crackers all the time.

That is probably more than you ever wanted to know about Family Table.

Thanks for keeping Family Table in mind on such a regular basis. That is a great mitzvah and wonderful example for E and R.

-Julie