just passing through, waiting for God.

I started a new venture. I got a YouTube channel not sure where I’m going to go with it but I’m getting quite a bit of hits more than this. Tell me what you think should I stop or go ahead? Or does anyone care at all?
I do it to keep busy and I have some fun here goes;
This one is my first taping and believe me I don’t know what I’m doing. I want to keep it simple down to earth with simple recipes that are not fancy but quality for singles or people on a budget.

How to make light kettle popcorn

The recipe is written out in YouTube

I have an aid that comes in and helps me clean up and generally helps me a pair one meal or dish that I can eat throughout the week or day. This is Jessica she comes every Friday and does a good job he has a good spirit about her and I like her.
I’m 75 live in independent living so I like to keep my independence I buy my own groceries because I’m a diabetic I prepare most of my diabetic meals. Course I’m always trying to lose weight this week I lost 13 pounds and proud of it in one week!
It’s on those lines I started this channel. Some of the recipes you may not like but read in the comments or I tell you where I’m coming from. If you read' my blog you know that already.
Do young girls that come there they learn a lot I tell you they like it very much and they teach me a lot too especially with the computer. So it’s mutual.
Light GMO kettle popcorn recipe;
💕 https://youtu.be/j6qGdhJ3WZ0  it’s vegetarian for the most part I do get meals across the street in assistant living with my program that I’m on but I don’t eat most of them too much meat salt and just downright not nourishing food which I believe seniors need more than ever before in their lives. Try to find a place like that it ain’t possible. This is for the seniors especially to we have a right to live the best way we can in the time that we have left.
There’s a British comedy called;Waiting For God, I love it I’m just passing - through waiting for God
See myRooster’s Politics blog posts too

Living on the edge

Living on the edge
I had five kids by myself I was on a grant from the government but there was not enough food. A local store head set a side by the door produce for animals. I would go through them and get the best ones that I could make supreme for my family. My children ever knew so it would never hurt their egos
My parents for my route workers we never dumpster dive but we did have a lot of food produce from the forms.
My heart goes out to the poor. The only thing I can do is a writer is to make sure they’re not forgotten and possibly influencing you to help out to in any capacity.

With corona Barris property is here and taking over. With the elections near we don’t know what is ahead maybe you might need some of these ideas yourself for your babies

Which brands of Rices Are compromised?

  Go to YouTube after cooking on the link to see and hear the  Real compelling story on rice the other countries got to speak here. Manny will not buy American rice here’s the ones that are selling

plastic in Foreign rice

Dr. Oz reported on his show about from China there’s plastic in rice here is the linklink

 My other blog you probably can’t see it here 

Forming Mobile Food Pantries

Let change direction to something positive for a change. How to help all of us in tough times (Today). What can we poor do? Lets gather ideas other and what we need to change to get there and be more successful.
It can be done in so many different ways: In our area local gardeners leave surplus fresh garden foods on their grounds next to the park: a large permanent cart provided by the Senior Citizen Association. Senior's play bingo on Tues. and Thurs. games with prizes and also food is handed out to the seniors by donations from local stores, like day old bread and pastries. The fresh food is needed but is outside and dropped off so the community has access to it also. Here's another idea?

Mobile Pantries Gets Fresh Food to Wherever People Need It Most

As food insecurity spikes, food banks are using refrigerated trucks to bring fresh food directly to communities nationwide.

By Zoe Loftus-Farren on June 13, 2016
Filed Under: Food Deserts, Food Justice  

School is letting out, and the back parking lot of Laurel Elementary School in East Oakland bustles with activity. As children stream out of the building, many join their parents and caregivers in line at the bi-monthly mobile food pantry run by the Alameda County Community Food Bank. Together, the children and adults select apples, oranges, and onions from the produce-only pantry.
Sherrie Lowe, who has two children and a grandchild at Laurel, has been using mobile pantries at the school for three or four years now. For her, the mobile pantry is all about convenience. “You pick up your kids, you pick up your fruit, you pick up your vegetables all at one stop,” she says amidst the lively activity of the pantry line.
Guillermo Villarreal, whose daughter attends the school as well, also stressed the convenience. He’s heard of a bigger pantry in East Oakland, but says, “It’s so hard to get there when you have no transportation and you have to borrow people’s cars.”
While the U.S. produces more than enough food to go around, roughly 48 million Americans—more than 15 percent—live in food-insecure homes, according to a 2014 study by the U.S. hunger relief organization Feeding America. Compounding the problem, between 500,000 and 1 million adults will lose their SNAP benefits (formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) over the course of 2016 as their waivers expire.
As providers of groceries, prepared meals, and nutrition education, food banks serve as a vital lifeline for people unable to access the type or quantity of food they need for a healthy lifestyle. Traditional food banks, however, do not reach everyone.
That’s where mobile food pantries like the one at Laurel Elementary come in. Mobile pantries have been around since the late 1990s, but food bank representatives around the country seem to agree that the trend is growing and will increasingly offer a complement to brick and mortar food distribution locations. Managers point to several reasons for the building momentum.
Targeting Need
Millions of people in America live in “food deserts,” or areas that lack healthy food providers like grocery stores, farmers’ markets—and in many cases, food banks as well. Because mobile pantries can travel, they can enter these underserved areas and help residents with the logistics of attaining food.
Michael Altfest serves as associate director of communications and marketing at the Alameda County Community Food Bank in the San Francisco East Bay, which runs the mobile pantry serving Laurel Elementary and operates mobile pantries in Alameda communities each business day of the month. “There is plenty of food out there,” Altfest says. “The idea behind the mobile pantry is to bring the food to where it is needed.”
In Alameda County, this often means taking the food to schools where a high percentage of students qualify for free or reduced-priced lunches, Altfest continues. At Laurel Elementary, for example, 80 percent of the students are eligible for subsidized meals.
“All our families are in need to one degree or another,” says Laurel Principal John Stangl, explaining that the fact the mobile food pantry is open to all families at the school, regardless of whether they qualify for free meals, helps “address the stigma and make everybody feel comfortable coming through the line.”
The targeted strategy seems to be working for Alameda county; over the past year, its mobile program has essentially doubled both its number of distribution sites and the amount of food it distributes.

Mobile Model Effective in Rural Areas
Barbara Ewen, senior director of food programs for Tarrant Area Food Bank near Fort Worth, Texas, explains that the mobile model can be similarly effective in rural areas. Although the actual number of food-insecure people is lower in rural areas, Ewen says, they are more spread out and have fewer resources. “Many small towns in Texas don’t have grocery stores, and if they do have grocery stores, they’re expensive,” she says.
To improve food access, Tarrant Food Bank has begun sending mobile pantries to familiar locations like schools and fire stations. When they first rolled out the mobile program, the food bank served roughly 500 households. Ewen says they now serve more than 9,000 households through their mobile pantries.
The nimbleness of pantries on wheels makes them especially valuable during emergency situations as well, because they can transport food to where people need it most. The Tarrant Area Food Bank provided mobile services following a 2013 tornado in Granburry, Texas, for example. And since finding out that families in Flint, Michigan, were exposed to lead-contaminated water for more than a year, the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan has been using mobile pantries to distribute lead-mitigating foods, particularly those high in calcium, iron, and vitamin C, to impacted residents.

Distributing Fresh Food More Efficiently
Ross Fraser, director of media relations with Feeding America, says he appreciates the efficiency of mobile pantries, which move food directly from warehouses to the people who need it. Of the 200 food banks in the Feeding America network, Fraser says 170 have set up mobile counterparts.
Mobile pantries also set themselves apart when it comes to fresh foods. “Since these are refrigerated trucks, we don’t have to worry about getting the food somewhere else with refrigeration,” says Fraser. “You open the doors, and voilà, it’s like a grocery store on wheels.”
During harvest seasons, this can be particularly useful. The Alameda Community Food Bank receives a lot of peaches, plums and other stone fruit in the summer, managers say.
In conjunction with seasonal produce, mobile pantry staff and volunteers often find themselves in the position to educate community members about new foods and provide them with recipes. Tarrant mobile pantries have offered a resource on 20 ways to cook beets, for instance.
Despite the many benefits, the mobile food bank model does face some challenges. For Tarrant Area Food Bank at least, the model is more expensive, Ewen says. Large, refrigerated trucks are pricey, typically costing well over $100,000 each, by Altfest’s estimates. What’s more, because mobile pantries are often set up outdoors in parking lots, extreme weather can be a barrier in some parts of the country.
Nevertheless, asked whether she sees the model as likely to expand, Ewen didn’t hesitate: “Absolutely.”
Hers is a view others in the food pantry community share. Fraser, for one, believes the model is “steadily growing,” and Altfest says that Alameda would love to continue to expand the mobile program. “Ideally,” he says, “we would have as many access points as needed for people to be able to access the food.”
Photos courtesy of Alameda County Community Food Bank.