Yet Another University Club Luncheon -

This Time with a Good Cause in Mind

Last Wednesday
we had our third Luncheon of the year.

This time we had invited Mr. Julio Alonso,

the director of the Hoosier Hills Food Bank,

to be our speaker for our luncheon.

This was especially important to me as 

I know from my Internet friends that the option of

being able to take leftover unused restaurant food

and distribute that to needy families is most often illegal

in other parts of the US.

You would be shocked to know how much restaurants

and grocery stores have to throw out each 

and every day,

simply because there is no other

recourse.

Unless your local food bank has been able to 

work with the local health department and been 

able to convince the restaurants and the retailer,
then all that food goes to waste.

And yes, in this day of litigation,

the food bank strives to reassure the donors that

under the Federal rules of something or other
or the Good Samaritan Act

that the restaurant and retailers
cannot be held liable for the donated goods.

Now, on to the food we got to eat.

On the menu was a traditional spinach salad

with sliced hard-boiled egg, mushrooms and

red onion with ranch dressing.

For the entree we had a choice between

Indiana Pot Roast with carrots, celery and onions

over horseradish mashed potatoes

or a baked acorn squash stuffed with wild rice,

spinach and mushroom pilaf in saffron 

and potato chowder.

Obviously I chose the pot roast.

Dessert was a warm peach cobbler.

Lunch was good

and our speaker told us about how

Hoosier Hills Food Bank

works hard to take "the hunger out of poverty."

The members who attended the luncheon 

donated non-perishable food items to the 

food bank.

All in all, it was a good day for a good cause.