The purpose of this BLOG is to help senior citizens navigate the food desert; to find food that is free or low cost; and how to eat healthy with the free or low-cost foods that you end up with. 

This weeks' food drop included pasta, pineapple juice, chicken, hamburger, carrots, butternut squash, red potatoes, wheat flour, a bag of frozen peas, sweet potatoes, a dozen eggs, oatmeal, breakfast cereal, and canned goods. 

We made oatmeal bread, a pasta salad with fresh vegetables, roasted chicken with potatoes and carrots. We also baked several potatoes and sweet potatoes at one time and put them in the refrigerator to use later as hashbrowns or to use a baked potato as a meal. We have egg laying chickens, but fresh eggs don't peel well when hardboiled. We hardboiled the eggs we were given and peeled them. We added some of the hard-boiled eggs to the pasta salad, the rest we made into egg salad for lunch sandwiches. We have taco seasoning, so we will use half the hamburger for tacos and the other half for Shepherd's pie. 

There is enough oatmeal and flour to make another round of bread, with each recipe making two loaves. That provides 4 loaves of bread for the week. That recipe provides a hearty grainy bread for sandwiches, but it also makes great toast.