{"id":888,"date":"2011-09-16T05:49:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T10:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/?p=888"},"modified":"2011-09-16T05:51:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T10:51:16","slug":"fall-food-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/fall-food-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Food Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, Allenby will participating in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northyorkharvest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">North York Harvest Food  Bank&#8217;s<\/a> <strong>Thanksgiving Food Drive.<\/strong> As an independent, charitable  organization, it is one of the largest food banks in Toronto, distributing 1.6  million pounds of food in 2010 through 60 community programs.<\/p>\n<p>Last year,  families and individuals in northern Toronto received nearly 150,000 food  hampers through our network of neighbourhood food banks, community kitchens,  perinatal programs for expecting mothers and new parents, shelters for women and  youth, and drop-in meal programs. We are proud to be a part of this initiative  and share in a vision of a community where all members are able to meet their  food needs.<\/p>\n<p>Please help us make a difference by sending non-perishable  food donations to school with your child until the collection deadline of  <strong>Friday, September 30th<\/strong>. Below are some suggested food giving  ideas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grains &#8211; rice (white and brown), flour &amp; whole grains  (wheat, barley, bulgur), quinoa, pasta<\/li>\n<li>Canned fish and meat &#8211; salmon, tuna, sardines, corned  beef, chicken and other non-pork products<\/li>\n<li>Canned or dried beans &#8211; chickpeas, kidney beans, lentils<\/li>\n<li>Cooking oil &#8211; canola oil, olive oil<\/li>\n<li>Canned fruit &#8211; peaches, pears, pineapple (packed in juice  and water instead of syrup)<\/li>\n<li>Canned vegetables &#8211; corn, green beans, broccoli,  mushrooms, carrots, water chestnuts, cabbage, sweet potato<\/li>\n<li>Fruit juice &#8211; 100% juice<\/li>\n<li>Cereals &#8211; High fibre, whole grain or multi-grain cereals,  oatmeal<\/li>\n<li>Healthy snacks and spreads &#8211; peanut butter, almond  butter, unsalted nuts, low fat popcorn, low fat granola bars or cereal bars,  crackers, cookies (arrowroot, digestive, oatmeal)<\/li>\n<li>Baby products &#8211; formula, infant cereals, baby food,  diapers<\/li>\n<li>Canned or powdered milk<\/li>\n<li>Spices and seasonings &#8211; turmeric, mustard seed, chili  powder, curry paste, sauces and marinades<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, Allenby will participating in the North York Harvest Food Bank&#8217;s Thanksgiving Food Drive. As an independent, charitable organization, it is one of the largest food banks in Toronto, distributing 1.6 million pounds of food in 2010 through 60 community programs. Last year, families and individuals in northern Toronto received nearly 150,000 food hampers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundraising","category-school-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}