Sorting The Foods

WEEK

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The fruit experts at babycenter.com say that the baby has surpassed the 2-inch mark, crown to rump. According to them, it is "about the size of a lime." I may be mistaken, but I thought it was already the size of lime LAST WEEK. Not only that, it was the size of LARGE lime last week. Now it's just a regular lime? I don't feel like we're making any progress. Supposedly, the baby doubled in size over the last three weeks. Large lime, indeed!

Finding ourselves unable to sort out these produce difficulties, we went to the Ottawa Food Bank to find solace amongst the stacks of canned goods. For 90 minutes, we joined with about 20 other people to shuck and sort shopping bags of donated non-perishables. We plowed through a large quantity of food, and it was quite gratifying.
TIP: When in doubt, sort as "miscellaneous dry".

We'd never been to the Food Bank before. It's shadier than I expected. It's tucked away in a dark industrial area behind the highway. Once you find your way through the particularly-shady side door, things get better: tremendous quantities of peanut butter and baked beans, stacked 20 feet high.

R usually gets pretty worn out in the evenings, but she handled it like a champ. She said that she was fading a bit near the end, but she came out okay -- except that spending all that time with food gave her the munchies. YPWBW* advises against sweet or sugary snacks -- suggesting fruit, cheese or maybe some peanut butter. R hates peanut butter with all her heart (I love the stuff -- I could have smeared it all over my head like this baby did). In the end, she went for the cheese. Fruit would have been just as good, but we've been stuck on limes for much too long.

Let's cross our fingers that we get a bigger fruit next week, maybe something exotic like an apple.
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