Please remember these are expected truckloads coming to the OFB warehouse this week. Reminder: It will take a few days for items to appear in inventory depending on when the loads are received into the warehouse. Food is first received into the Statewide warehouse and then must be transformed/moved to the Metro and West warehouses, including a delivery to West. These are estimates on what you can likely expect to see in the coming days/weeks, not when you will see them. Please reach out to the Metro Team (MWCS@oregonfoodbank.org) with questions, not the Operations Team. Thank you!
Inventory Update from Operations - Please see last week's post for a longer food flow update.
Anticipated Loads - please see key below for interpretation
Received last week for FTB:
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| Key: PS=Purchased Staples: product purchased with state funding and distributed free of charge. FTB=Food to Buy: product purchased by OFB usually by the truckload and sold to RFBs and agencies by the case at our cost. Statewide=load is divided between regional food banks - Metro and West will receive a portion of this load | ||
Anticipated Produce Loads - please see key below for interpretation
Greetings friends!
This week you can expect a super fun load of Clementine Mandarins. These little friends have a super loose easy to peel skin and are a favorite of kids and their tired parents. They make a great addition to the lunchbox and snack table. Those of you who know me know how I loathe that the grocery industry rebrands little orange things under stupid names like “Cuties” or “Halos”. Well, for those of you who know what a “Cutie” and a “Halo” are will be happy to learn they are really Clementine’s and their friend the Murcott. I know, why not call them what they are?
My feelings aside, one of our farmer friends in California had to do a massive harvest prior to rain touching down in the fields last week. Fun fact, you cannot commercially harvest citrus during or immediately after a rain if you want healthy fruit to send to market. Rain + sensitive skin = mold + sadness. They called and asked if we could help them out by taking a load so here we are. You will also see the first load of USDA Navels will also be available to order and should be stellar quality. Citrus season is officially in full swing.
Green leafy veggies still remain hard to get but after looking far and wide for several days I was able to find a load of red cabbage. I know we’ve had a lot of cabbage so far this year but that’s what’s been available so that’s what we have. At least it’s a different color/variety. I’ll keep looking and hopefully we’ll see some new crops soon. Until then…
Be well and bon appetite! Your friend, Produce Kim
| Monday, 2/16 OFB Closed | Tuesday, 2/17 Pears, bulk – 30 bins – Statewide – Repack required Apples, cased – 18 pallets – Statewide – Ready to distribute Yellow Potatoes, cased – 18 pallets – Statewide – Ready to distribute Beets, Parsnips, Rutabaga, Turnips, bulk – up to 14 bins – Metro – Repack required Mixed roots – 2 pallets/bins – Metro – Ready to distribute Oranges, cased (USDA) – 18 pallets – Statewide – Ready to distribute | Wednesday, 2/18 Mandarin Oranges, cased – 20 pallets – Statewide – Ready to distribute Red Cabbage, cased – 24 pallets – Statewide – Ready to distribute Butternut/Spaghetti Squash – 25 bins – Statewide – Ready to distribute | Thursday, 2/19 Onions, bagged – up to 18 pallets – Statewide – Repack required | Friday, 2/20 No loads expected |
| Produce Key: Format = Product - Pack Type - Volume - Warehouse - Repack Requirement Red = We are expecting these items, but the volumes are unconfirmed. Blue = Updated highlights/edits FTL = Full Truck Load ** Highlighted items = new additions to the lineup | ||||
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