soon to cycle soup!

HI! Thanks so much for your positive responses to Soup Cycle.
Here's an update of what has happened, what still needs to happen, and what's to come this weekend.

SOUP
I bought a bushel (?) of sweet onions in Walla Walla last weekend. We have donations of olive oil from Megan, potatoes from Sarah and some money to buy more ingredients from Maya, THANK YOU! I also bought some nifty vegan chicken stock and I have lots of garlic, so I think we are set on the ingredients. We will cook the soup from Jeremy's house in the Central District. He has offered up his big, lovely kitchen (thank you!) and lives just behind the Grocery Outlet, so it will be easy to get more supplies there if needed. I think we have enough people to be cooks/bikers, and we'll switch it up in December if all goes well.

CONTAINERS
Emma has designed an amazing logo that we will stick to the outside of the containers, just for the heck of it. Thank you Emma!
This is the week for collecting your yogurt / misc. food containers. Please round up as many as you can! I'm eating A LOT of yogurt this week. Jean's brother has been stockpiling them in Colorado, so if we do this again, we might get more from him. Please stash them in the designated box at CWB, or let me know when I can come get them from you.

BIKE TRAILER
We have two trailers (Jeremy has one, Jean has one) that we will test this week to see which is the most sturdy and slosh-proof. Josh has graciously offered to design and weld a bike trailer with a gimbaled pot holder, so that we can ladle the soup as we go. Maybe next month.
We still need to figure out a way to insulate the cart. Does anyone have any polyurethane foam lying around?

Again, thank you so much for your enthusiasm and interest, idealism is a good thing when we see so little sun. However, on a more realistic note, someone brought up a good point this past week. While this may be fun for us, we have to be aware of how our recipients are reacting to the soup hand outs, and that it could be perceived as condescending. We'll try to be sensitive to that and just see how it goes. Depending, it may be better for us to wrap our efforts in with those of another established organization like Food Not Bombs. OK, that's all for now.

eat yogurt!
Shelly