If one man's trash is another man's treasure, then you could say Second Harvest Food Bank hit the jackpot.

The food bank is putting thousands of canned goods that can't be sold in stores, to good use.

"It's either donated to us so it's basically free except maybe we may have to pay for the cost of labels or we get it at such a crazy cheap price that it enables us to bring more product into the food bank," Kim Brock, Director of Operations at Second Harvest Food Bank said.

There's nothing actually wrong with the product itself, they're tossed out due to issues with the labels.

"They give it to us for a cheap price because usually there's something going on in their production that maybe their label's messed up or they didn't have enough glue or something like that to attach the labels," Brock said. "Instead of running them back through again, the product is fine and they don't wanna destroy the product so they'll offer it to us at a greatly reduced price," she said.

That reduction price could be as much as 50 percent. From there, a team of volunteers form an assembly line to tape, label and package these goods.

"If they provide the label for us then we are able to just attach it. Sometimes we have to make it ourselves and it takes a little bit longer because of the production," Brock said. "Once we get the labels it's really a smooth process everything flows really quick," she said.

It's not just the food bank who benefits from the BRITES program, a reference to the shiny, unlabeled cans.

"Anytime that we're able to bring more product in at a really great price, it benefits everybody," Brock said. "It really helps us stretch our dollar significantly. It allows us to get a lot of product that we wouldn't normally be able to get or maybe even afford. It really provides an excellent resource for the community to get more product out. We've had green beans, we've had pie filling that was donated to us, right now we're working on tomato paste," she said.

It's also a more efficient way to Feed our Valley.

"Over a thousand we feed," Mark Presby, repack coordinator at Second Harvest Food Bank said. "We take care of as many people as we possibly can. These people know that they can always count on us having something for them and the amount of food that they can make with one of these cases alone i mean, you could feed a family for weeks," he said.

The volunteers have also found a way to have fun with giving back.

"This past week we had two groups that came in and they did over 4,000 cans within a 2 hour period so that was phenomenal, 4,425 cans is the record right now," Presby said.

"We often get a board where, 'you packed this many cases!' So they're all really excited, our volunteers have a good time with it," Brock said. "I'm glad that we're able to provide a service to our community and also an opportunity for our volunteers to get involved and to truly make a difference and have fun at the same time. I mean, that's really what it's all about," she said.

Brock adds, they're filling almost 20,000 requests for food on a weekly basis and they anticipate they'll distribute 11 million pounds of food this year.