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Tips for Reducing Waste During the Holiday Season

11/30/2020

1. New ways to wrap gifts: Kraft paper (biodegradable!), Reusable tote bag from your local thrift store or co-op, Shop used bags and fabric, Get creative with your brown grocery bags
2. Waste-less traditions: Jolabokaflod-Iceland, Furoshiki-Japan, Donate your time or money to your favorite local nonprofit wink, wink
3. Reinvent your leftovers: MyFridgeFood, Recipes That Reduce Food Waste, Christmas Comfort Food Recipes
4. Old Made New: Thrift shop those gifts - try Thred Up or OfferUp, Trade unused toys with neighbors, Sustainable (emotionally and ecologically) Homemade Gifts Ideas + More
5. Did you stress-cook this COVID season? Feel understood with Roxanne Gay as she processes COVID through cooking and learn about why others are turning to cooking. Don't forget to freeze, donate, or reinvent (see #3) that extra food.

Meet the Service Corps Team!

11/30/2020

Our Service Corps team will serve as a part of a COVID-19 Response team for the next 10 months with For All. Along with day-to-day For All duties, each member will go through trainings and create capstone projects that follow the For All mission and help build community connections.

Landon (she/they)
Favorite way to reduce your waste? "Shopping at the farmers market!"
If you were a food, what would you be? "Pot pie...it just feels true."

Audrey (she/her)
Favorite way to reduce your waste? "I buy everything I can used. When I buy new, I try to buy sustainably!"
If you were a food, what would you be? "A beet. I would snuggle in the perfume of petricore, watch all my cool critter friends crawl by, and sleep forever."

Fin (he/him)
Favorite way to reduce your waste? "Cooking up a mystery meal that uses the food I have in the fridge that might go bad soon. It expands my cooking knowledge, prevents waste, and sometimes I can make it taste good!"
If you were a food, what would you be?"A pork roll, egg and cheese. Very New Jersey. Jersey has breakfast sammich spots everywhere, and I had them everyday before school."

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The Free Burrito Project: COVID-19 Edition

11/30/2020

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For the first time since COVID-19 hit Seattle in March, the For All team successfully rolled hundreds of vegan, dietary Halal and Kosher burritos to share with our community.

The Free Burrito Project started in 2011 as a fun Saturday night rolling burritos with friends hosted by For All founders Annaliese and Terminello. With community at its core, The Free Burrito Project soon grew into large scale community events in which many volunteers gathered to roll hundreds of burritos at a time. Due to its communal nature, The Free Burrito Project was temporarily postponed in 2020.

This November, the Free Burrito Project was brought back to life, with several COVID related adaptations. With co-founder Annaliese leading a team of two For All Service Corps members Landon and Audrey, the Burrito Roll became a time to build community between our team. From cooking beans, to finely chopping vegetables gathered from our Grocery Recovery program, to assembling burritos and rolling them into compostable wrappers, to distributing burritos to neighbors living in shelters ...each step in the process was infused with love and a desire to share with our community.

Even though we weren't able to welcome you to our kitchen this time, we are eager to continue sharing our stories with you and look forward to the day when we can roll together again. If you are interested in learning more about our current volunteer opportunities, please contact us.

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