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Volunteers Can Peanut Butter in Houston Plant

Peanut butter is among the top-requested items from our partner agencies, as it is high in protein, non-perishable, and easy to distribute. Helping to meet this need is a program whereby volunteers groups work in the Mormon Church’s Houston peanut butter plant to produce jars for the Texas Food Bank Network.

In May, 26 young single adults from the Colleyville congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints made an overnight trip to Houston to work in the organization’s plant. The group processed over 4,000 jars of peanut butter while representing the Tarrant Area Food Bank.

This young singles group also worked Saturday, June 5th in Tarrant Area Food Bank's warehouse.

“Our group is becoming more and more familiar with the increasing numbers of hungry folks in Tarrant County, and look forward to serving,” said Jessica Lucio, Public Affairs director for the Colleyville LDS congregation.

(LEFT) the final product is jarred, and ready to be labeled and shipped.

Last year, the Food Bank received almost 28,000 pounds of peanut butter from the Houston plant. The peanut butter cannery is a part of the Mormon Church's worldwide humanitarian effort to provide food for increasing numbers of needy families they serve.

(RIGHT) Volunteers from the Colleyville LDS group sort peanuts during pre-production

Behind the scenes of STAMP OUT HUNGER!

May 8, 2010 — From 4 to 9 p.m., the donations rolled in from the 22 U. S. Post Offices in the greater Fort Worth area. Transporting the food for free were 18-wheelers from the U.S. Postal Service, Coors and Blakeman Transportation, joined by Tarrant Area Food Bank trucks.  Staff and volunteers unloaded, weighed and recorded the donations from generous community residents. In five hours, 255,192 pounds of food were added to our store of food for hungry families.  THANK YOU!

(ABOVE) Inside Tarrant Area Food Bank's warehouse, containers full of

STAMP OUT HUNGER! grocery bags full of donated food wait to be weighed

and recorded for each postal station. Letter carriers are competitive and each

station strives to be the top food collector.

(RIGHT) U. S. Postal Service driver helps unload

18-wheeler postal truck full of STAMP OUT

HUNGER! donations from Trinity River Post

Office routes.

(LEFT) STAMP OUT HUNGER! donations

stretch as far as the eye can see.

P.S. After the last of the donations were delivered to the Food Bank over the weeks after Stamp Out Hunger, the FINAL POUNDAGE came to 261,884 pounds!!! 

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