Sometimes the food drops have extensive amounts of fresh food. Be prepared to spend an afternoon in the kitchen processing it, to ensure it lasts the 30 days. I don't understand why this happens. Some food drops the volunteers tell us that there were not as many people as usual. The weather has a lot to do with it as well. Sometimes the food distribution is cancelled if there is a holiday, a blizzard, or subzero temperatures. The food is held for a week, or a month and they give out double portions. While fresh food is the best, it doesn't last 30 days. The September food distribution had four containers of cherry sized tomatoes, five bins of slicing tomatoes, a lot of asparagus, celery, small onions, 20 pounds of potatoes, 3 large heads of cabbage, and 10 pounds of carrots. 

We were not worried about the carrots, potatoes, or cabbage as those last a long time. My husband did make sour kraut with one of the cabbages. The rest we used in stir fry meals. We eat a lot of carrots, so we did not process them. We ate them in homemade soups, stir fry dishes, or roasted them on the grill. A lot of the small onions, or scallions, were used in three batches of cannellini bean salads. The rest were used in stir fry, soups, or omelets. We did share some of the tomatoes with a family that is having food issues. The asparagus was either roasted or chopped and used in omelets.