A lady at our church has been out of work for quite awhile.  She frequents the food pantries in town at the last minute, when they are getting ready to throw everything away, and takes it all home.  Most of the food is at or past its sell date and is donated by grocery stores.  There is some life left in it, if you don't mind cutting out some spots or freezing it and cooking it quickly. 

Last Friday, she brought an entire car full of zucchini to church, and I was thrilled!  She offered 2 big bags to me and I took it.  Unfortunately I'm the only one in the family who gets super excited about the tasty green vegetable and I need to use it up fast!  My solution is to hide it in everything.  Yesterday for lunch we had crockpot zucchini casserole. And today for breakfast we had Chocolate Zucchini pancakes.  Though if the kids ask, they are chocolate pancakes.  They were delicious.  Here's my recipe:

1 C shredded zucchini

1/4 cup oil

1/4 cup honey

2 eggs

1 teaspoon soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon cloves

2 cup flour (whole wheat pastry or all purpose)

1/4 cup cocoa powder

1/2 cup buttermilk (I used 1/4 C yogurt and 1/4 cup milk)

Mix up and cook like pancakes.  We had them with regular maple syrup, but I think they would have been great with real honey sweetened whipped cream.