Making Holiday Meals Complete

We wanted to make Thanksgiving feel a little more special for visitors to our Food Pantry this year.

Although we give out turkeys, sometimes our families don’t have everything they need to prepare a holiday meal. So we decided to include some extra items: cooking oil, breadcrumbs, salt and pepper, Italian seasoning, garlic powder, dried minced onion, parsley, assorted seasoning spices, and aluminum foil. (Grocery staples were given out the previous week.)

We had reusable shopping bags made to hold everything in a convenient and attractive way.

Our people were very happy!

And the bags turned out great. Around 575 of them were given out.

We are doing the same thing for Christmas. Our red bags will be filled with flour, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla extract, hot cocoa mix, ginger, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, a bag of mini marshmallows, a box of mini candy canes, and baking spray.

Just some little extras to show our love.