How does the Food Bank of Delaware get food?
A. Food manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, brokers, and food distributors donate millions of pounds of food and other grocery products to the Food Bank of Delaware each year. Our fleet of trucks travel up and down the Eastern Seaboard to pickup food from donors. Commercial trucks also haul in donations from food industry donors in the region and across the country that are tapped through Feeding America. Food industry donors make a variety of packaged, canned, perishable, and non-perishable foods, including poultry, pasta, cereal, produce, snacks and beverages, available to feed Delaware’s hungry. The Food Bank also receives food through generous individual community donors and groups, businesses and organizations that hold food drives throughout the year. In order to ensure a consistent supply of certain food staples, the Food Bank of Delaware purchases food in large volumes. About 11 percent of our warehouse is purchased food items.
