# Local High School collecting food

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-high-school-collecting-food/1024498>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 2, 2025, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-high-school-collecting-food/1024498 "2025-11-02T07:07:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-high-school-collecting-food/1024498/21 "2025-11-02T21:55:01Z")

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There was a haunted walk Friday night for the kid set.(it was mild)

They collected cans at a table. My daughter said it was a faith based group.

It was well advertised so they had a big drive for their pantry.

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**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-high-school-collecting-food/1024498/22 "2025-11-02T22:19:54Z")

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I was going to mention this. I’m not sure where the donations in the OP are going, to a large food bank or a smaller operation. You can definitely do more with the same amount if you are donating to a large food bank - they can often get lower prices with bulk purchasing but my little parish food pantry isn’t going to get discounts for buying in huge amounts. They’ll get the same food for the money as I would ( or maybe less, since I have a warehouse club membership) but if they get cash donations, they have to find someone to shop for the food. Same thing for the food pantry we had at one of my jobs - if someone donated cash, someone else would have to shop on their own time ( since it wasn’t run by my employer. )

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-high-school-collecting-food/1024498/23 "2025-11-02T23:04:57Z")

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> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> To be honest though, while you can buy groceries from the supermarket to give to the high school kids collecting outside, more meals could be provided if instead you gave cash to the food bank.

Our food banks use cash donations to buy perishables and depend on donations for non perishables. Some of our food banks also use cash donations to help out with people’sw utility bills.

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-high-school-collecting-food/1024498/24 "2025-11-02T23:45:32Z")

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**Moderating:**

Please stay on topic, that post is not.

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**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2025, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-high-school-collecting-food/1024498/25 "2025-11-04T03:08:22Z")

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We have a local organization here that keeps the county school system’s food pantry stocked. I’d already been giving them donations - they send out a list of what they want/need the most - but this month I’m going to double what I normally give them.

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