Tons Of Free Ingredients For Me -- Woo Hoo!!!
Decorating By JGMB Updated 13 May 2011 , 8:06pm by JGMB
I can't believe how lucky I am!!! I volunteer at our local food pantry every week, and a small family bakery contacted them to donate stuff because they were closing. Obviously, pantry clients wouldn't want huge quantities of sugar, etc., so they asked if I wanted it instead. 
Here's what I got, absolutely free:
50 lbs. Sweetex
15 lbs. white chocolate chunks
25 lbs. dark chocolate chips
2 1/2 lbs. white confectionery coating pieces
2 1/2 lbs. dark chocolate confectionery coating pieces
8 lb. can caramel dessert topping
6 lb. can crushed pineapple
25 lbs. semisweet chocolate chips
2 lbs. vanilla pudding mix
5 lbs. Quaker oats
10 lbs. cocoa powder
75 lbs. confectioner's sugar
Something I've never seen before, 5 1/2 lbs. crunchies cereal coated in assorted chocolates (they're from France -- I have no idea what to do with them!)
I'm so excited and grateful -- it was like Christmas in May!!!
How wonderful!! Your generous nature has been repaid. 
WTG! Now you can pay it forward & bake something special for someone using your donated baking items! Helping others really does pay off in one way or another. Here everyone benefited!
Now you can pay it forward & bake something special for someone using your donated baking items!
Great minds think alike! 
That's what I do all the time. This week, I baked 2 birthday cakes for teenage boys at the local group foster home. Tomorrow, I bake a 60-serving cake for a benefit concert at our church. Next week, I'm making 500 cookies for a local charity's Volunteer Appreciation gathering.
I also do about 3 "orders" per week where people ask for a cake, cookies, pie, etc. Then, they write their check directly to the local food pantry that passed these ingredients on to me. As of today, $1497.50 has been raised.
It's a win/win/win situation where I get to have fun baking and decorating, other people get to eat the treats, and the charity benefits.
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