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Anticipated Produce & Food Loads - week of 3/2
Weekly update on anticipated incoming food and produce loads!
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!
USDA-TEFAP Food Forecast - A new USDA-TEFAP plan will be sent out in the next few weeks, with updated orders for Q4 and new orders for Q1.
Anticipated Loads - please see key below for interpretation
Received last week for FTB:
| Ordered 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!
The day I’ve been waiting for has arrived! We finally have a few more veggie options to offer. We will be receiving our first load of Mexico grown zucchini and desert Iceberg lettuce this week. Lettuce can be tricky for us to move fast enough for the quality to hold up so I split the load with some green cabbage to ensure the best possible quality for everyone. And clearly we must always have cabbage available. I think it’s strange and kind of amazing but mostly strange how much produce is grown in the desert regions of California. Yes, I’m talking about you lettuce.
We will also be pivoting away from cased non-USDA citrus and moving towards more bulk loads for the next few months. We are doing this for a few reasons. Bulk loads are $4000 cheaper than cased right now. Bulk loads also afford us the opportunity to bring in different fun varieties. Like lemons, blood oranges and less common varieties of grapefruit and mandarins than we usually have access to cased.
Be well and bon appetit! Your friend, produce kim
| Monday, 3/2 Lemons/Navel Oranges, bulk – 36 bins – Statewide – Repack required Zucchini, cased – 22 pallets – Statewide – Ready to distribute Pears, cased – 18 pallets –Statewide – Ready to distribute | Tuesday, 3/3 Pears, bulk – 30 bins – Statewide – Repack required Apples, bulk – 56 bins – Statewide – Repack required Beets, Parsnips, Rutabaga,Turnips, bulk – up to 12 bins – Statewide – Repack required Parsnips, bagged/bulk – up to 3 pallets/bins – Metro – Repack may be required | Wednesday, 3/4 Iceberg Lettuce/Green cabbage, cased – 26 pallets – Statewide – Ready to distribute Oranges, USDA cased – 18 pallets – Statewide – ready to distribute | Thursday, 3/5 Onions, bagged – Bagged/Bulk FTL – Statewide – Repack required | Friday, 3/6 No loads expected |
| Produce Key: Format = Product - Pack Type - Volume - Warehouse - Repack Requirement FTL = Full Truck Load Red = We are expecting these items, but the volumes are unconfirmed. Blue = Updated highlights/edits | ||||
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