Happy New Year! As many of you know, we have been working to streamline your monthly reporting process for some time now, and I’m happy to announce that many of these anticipated changes have been made as of 1/1/23! For most agencies, your December report (due 1/10/23) will be the first one impacted by these changes. The portion of the report where you’ll see the most change is in the recording of donations and purchases from sources other than OFB. Accordingly, it’s important that anyone…

Produce Safety Resources

These produce safety resources provide information and best practices on receiving and storing fresh produce to help ensure that program operators and participants receive and use produce items that are high quality and safe. Use the following links to view and download these resources:

Produce Storage Chart - click to view!

This chart provides information on the storage of fresh produce to maintain its quality and safety, including ideal temperatures and locations.…

A private donor has reached out with available refrigerators and stoves/ovens to donate directly to our agencies. Please see below for more information.

Quantity:

(6) Stove/Oven standalone available Dec 21-31.

(4) Refrigerators available now.

Please contact donor directly:

Paul Shearer (503-789-3534)/paul.gregory.shearer@gmail. com 

These items will be available until fully distribute by the donor. This post will be deactivated by 12/31, unless items remain to be donated.

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You may have received Unlabeled USDA Frozen Corn on or after November 13th 2022 . If you have received this product from us we have sent your agency recall contact an email. Please check your email or read through our message below for further instructions. This product needs to be fully cooked to 165 degrees Fahrenheit (or 74 degrees Celsius) before eating.

ACTION NEEDED REGARDING:

Product Name: Frozen USDA Corn 

Product Ref 82071 

Reason for action: We have discovered that the individual…

'Tis the season! Please note the upcoming Oregon Food Bank closures below. If you have a regular delivery scheduled on one of those days and have not already reached out, you will hear from our team soon and we'll follow up again to confirm your closure or rescheduled delivery date. If you pick up your order, please plan for an order earlier in the week. OFB will be closed:

• Thursday, November 24th & Friday November 25th
• Because the observed December holidays are over a weekend, OFB will…

This event is part of Oregon Food Bank’s process of learning by creating space for dialogue among a panel of experts and with our community. We also understand the evidence that unequivocally shows hunger and poverty as outcomes of a lack of access to reproductive healthcare and rights.

On the surface, we might think of reproductive justice and food justice as disconnected. But join our panel of health experts, advocates and community leaders as we dig beneath the surface. There we will find the…

Building on learning from Starting with the Self, this workshop will focus on connecting our personal narrative to the larger social structures that shape our experiences. In moving from self to structure, we will focus on understanding the ways that social and economic structures lead to hunger. We will also review key terms and their definitions related to social inequities and oppression.

*note: There is no requirement to have completed the Starting with the Self training prior to this one*

Reg…

Only a sample image - not what is available at OFBYou, like many folks, have probably been excited to see some new meat offerings when you go online to place your order. Currently there's "Meat, Chicken, BULK" and recently there was "Bacon, BULK." If you were a program that is NOT a meal site, and ordered this product, you may have also received an email from Christina letting you know that the product was removed from your cart. 

Unfortunately, only meal sites (designated 1B and 2A) are…

Let’s break this down. Food is energy. The process to convert one to the other involves our teeth, enzymes, and bacteria breaking the plant, animal or cupcake back down into chemicals that our cells are programmed to utilize. Several types of bacteria are a vital part of our normal healthy digestive system and they like to eat what we like to eat. However, outside our bodies the same bacteria along with countless microbes (a mix of bacteria, fungus and virus that are all too small to see with…