Our first (and probably last) Angel Food box

I still believe Angel Food Ministries is great for some people.  But after picking up our box today, I can see it isn't going to serve our purposes.  
There was a box of spaghetti and a can of spaghetti sauce; I make our sauce from scratch to avoid all the sodium, and I'm pretty sure mine would taste better than sauce from a can, although we'll use it.  
There's the four-serving frozen lasagna, which is in my oven as I'm typing this.  That isn't something I'd ordinarily buy at the store.  Again, lots of sodium.  If I want some good lasagna, I'll bribe my daughter into making me some.  Although it won't be very good for us, but it WILL be good.
A pound of hamburger... we still have some of the steer, good old Meat Loaf, in hamburger form in the freezer.  
A container of 2% milk.  We have a Jersey cow that supplies our milk, unless I get lazy.    
There's a small pork roast and four top sirloin steaks; Normally I only buy a roast when we're having company, and I almost never buy steak; but we'll use it.   There's some chicken breast, which is something I do like to have around for stir-fry.
We'll use the three pounds of potatoes and the pound of carrots, as well as all the frozen vegetables that were included in the box.  We like our veggies.
For someone who doesn't (or isn't able to) cook from scratch a lot, and isn't worried about sodium and cholesterol, I think the Angel Food ministries would work great.  
For me and Cliff, not so much.  There's too much overly-processed food for our tastes.  But I would not have known if I hadn't tried it.

A quick note about Angel Food Ministries

I've had two different people tell me there are no Angel Food Ministry sites near them. In that case, you might get the church you attend to take part in this. If you go to this portion of their website, you can find out how it's done. There is a benefit in it for the church, too.

Angel Food Ministries

I have mentioned Angel Food Ministries on this blog before, and I have their link on my sidebar. It isn't a charity program for low-income families; it's for everybody. Although you pick your food up at a church, there is no proselytizing. You just pick up the food you've already paid for and go.

I have relatives and friends who get the Angel Food package every month; they rave about it. It's a way of giving your meals some variety, since somebody else is choosing the foods. Today for the first time, I finally placed my order. I was looking over the offerings for February and happened to notice that they now give the option of paying online. One thing that had previously stopped me from getting this food was that we'd have to go to Odessa twice each month: once to order, and once to pick up the goods. Now, it's just the one-time trip. There's a two-dollar charge for ordering online, but I'd say it's worth that.

Here's what I'll be getting on the last Saturday of next month, for $30. If I'm getting milk from Bonnie at that time, I'll pass the milk on to my daughter's family; we really don't need the hamburger, either; we're still eating what we had butchered. That isn't powdered milk, by the way; it's the shelf-stable kind. Angel Food ministries always has a few more processed foods than I'd like (the boneless chicken drumsticks and the pasta sauce, for instance). But as long as we eat the proper portions, we'll do OK.

Go on and try it; I dare you. Then after you've picked up your order, let me know what you think.

If you go HERE and scroll on down, you'll see there are other boxes available.

Search the locations on the site; I'm pretty sure you'll find one not too far from you.