Food prices coming into this holiday season are steering nonprofits and community groups into getting creative so the food insecure of Northwest Indiana will have something delicious on their tables Thanksgiving Day.
It was a long and often boring wait as scores upon scores of vehicles lined up for miles behind her that Friday. But she said it was better to be smart than sorry, especially since turkeys are at a premium this year, and the closer to the end of line you get, the slimmer the pickings become.“What I’ve encountered is at the end of the line, you start getting things like a chicken, whipped cream and a canned good,” Lucero said tiredly.
The food, however, hasn’t been cheap, he said, despite the generosity of Strack and VanTil, BP, Humana and new partner Ken Allen Law Group, who hosted two Mobile Market locations, among others. Wholesale turkey prices are at record highs after a difficult year for U.S. flocks. A particularly deadly strain of avian flu — first reported in February on an Indiana turkey farm — has wiped out 49 million turkeys and other poultry in 46 states this year, according to the U.S.
Garcia said he placed the Foodbank’s turkey order in September because he anticipated there was going to be issues, and the holiday season isn’t the time to come up short — a lesson The People’s Turkey Drive out of East Chicago almost learned the hard way, according to Juan Fernandez, one of its founders.
And then there were the turkeys, which up until about a week or two ago looked like there weren’t going to be, Zamora-Ojeda said.“It was very hard to find a bulk of turkeys this year, and we were talking about giving out gift cards instead of because we couldn’t find anyone who would give us what we needed,” she said.
The price for 600 turkeys, Fernandez said, was $12,000, compared with $9,000 for the 800-plus turkeys they gave away in 2019.
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