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We follow all USDA guidelines for food safety. This is especially true in regards to shelf stable foods and dates on cans and packages.  If you are a school liaison or family who gets these foods weekly this free mobile app can help you feel safe and informed.

The FoodKeeper contains food safety and storage advice to help your shoppers maintain freshness and quality of foods. There are two ways to help shoppers utilize The FoodKeeper:

#1: The FoodKeeper Mobile App

Originally published as a brochure in 1994, the new FoodKeeper App provides valuable food storage advice to help consumers maintain the freshness and quality of foods. The guidelines recommended in The FoodKeeper can also help consumers use food while at peak quality and reduce waste. The guide was created through the work of the Food Marketing Institute, Cornell University’s Department of Food Science, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Recently, the FoodKeeper App was updated so users can choose to receive automatic notifications when food safety recalls are announced by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Encourage your shoppers to download and utilize the FoodKeeper App for free. Download The Foodkeeper Free Media Kit for images, talking points and information to help you promote and share the app to your shoppers.

#2: Search the FoodKeeper Database Online

Shoppers can also search The FoodKeeper online through FoodSafety.gov. This database contains all the information available in the mobile app and shopper can easily search food products to find proper storage details.LEARN MORE

We are Proud to announce that Jeffco Eats is a member of the amazing PUSH program with Food Bank of the Rockies. We are also Agency Express members and Totes for Hope program providers. We live to PUSH PRODUCE. We exist to allow greater access to fresh fruits and vegetables for our school children and their families.

Colleen Daszkiewicz,Agency Relations Representative, Food Bank of the Rockies is doing amazing work to increase access to fresh fruits and vegetables in Metro Denver. She runs a program called the Fresh Produce (or PUSH) Program. This program aims to provide Food Bank of the Rockies agencies with more fresh produce on a larger scale than the fresh food center or ordering through Agency Express. Through membership in this program Jeffco Eats will distribute produce in full pallets amounts (~2000 lbs)- for example, a full pallet of tomatoes, or a full pallet of potatoes. Since this is such a large amount of food, agencies may split it among themselves as long as all receiving agencies are FBR partner agencies.  We also can distribute dairy items, such as yogurt, milk, and cheese, that we distribute through this program.

Jeffco Eats can bring 4000 lbs of produce or more per month this summer to the most needy children. This is just as strategic as having people go to a farmers market with snap benefits. This produce is free and given on a first come first serve basis. This produce can be from local Colorado farms or regional farms.  We are working to ramp up our capacity to deliver fresh produce to our families in double digit increase.  We need your help. In four months May, June, July and August we can bring more than 16,000 lbs of produce directly to children and families in Jefferson County.

Our strategic capacity building model is that we receive food and produce and snacks and they go directly to the 12 to 20 schools we serve.  These schools in Lakewood, Wheat Ridge, Edgewater and Arvada [summer] that we serve have over 4000 students many of whom are on free and reduced lunch. Families on free and reduced lunch have incomes of less than $30,000 for family of four.  It takes almost $60 K today to have cash flow in a family to pay for food and housing .  Many of the students and families we serve are in the vulnerable life category of being homeless.  A majority of the 3000 homeless children in Jeffco live doubled up.  That means several families share a residence and they do not want to live that way.  You can read the Vento McKinney Act for exact details on how schools and human services serve homeless families. https://www.theotx.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/FAFSA_RoundUp_Week.pdf

Strategies of Food Bank of Rockies and its partner agencies :

• Prioritize agency relationships and mutually build capacity to close the meal gap.
• Increase meals served in under-served communities.
• Strengthen the nutritional value of our products.
• Lead and engage communities by telling our story effectively.

Would you consider becoming a monthly partner with Jeffco Eats. Click here for one time or monthy donation> 

Colleen Daszkiewicz

Agency Relations Representative

Food Bank of the Rockies

303.375.5815

cdaszkiewicz@foodbankrockies.org

“A mom cried last week when we got her weekend food from Jeffco Eats”

Slowing down every now and then is a good habit. Summer is a time to have some specials moments of fun. Fun can mean many things to many people. The hundreds of volunteers at Jeffco Eats every week bring smiles or tears to children and families. Together we can eradicate weekend hunger for 4000 children.

We were asked by New Life Church in Lakewood which is a place focused on helping those in dire need, to bring food to a summer camp for 8 weeks. We were thrilled and honored. Gail Garcia is the Director of Zocata which happens at 1380 Ammons Street Lakewood.

By you giving a recurring donation on paypal you can insure we keep on existing as a high functioning and strategic non profit 501 c3. 

We are working on a test program for Fall where we will help some families not have food trauma due to deprivation and lack for a number of months.

They need help and coaching on how to make decisions around food when they feel safe. Will you consider joining our growing group of those who give $25, $50 or even $150 a month to help and insure every week that Jeffco Eats ?