Meal Coordination

For our guests, the Warming Center provides a sense of community, a place to rest and relationships that can lead to positive changes in people’s lives.  Last summer,  we welcomed an average of 50 guests each day that we were open.

We are asking for your help again with lunches this summer.

On Mondays, we will be using food generously donated by our community through the Knights of Columbus Lenten food drive.  We will do the menu planning, shop for non-perishable items for the meal and prepare a box of food, along with a meal plan and  suggested recipes that cooks can pick up from the Warming Center.  We can reimburse cooks for any expenses they incur for perishable items that need to be bought to complete their meals (i.e., fruit, veggies, dairy products).  Also, if Monday cooks would like to choose their own menus and donate their meals, this would also be wonderful.  We plan for 50 guests each day and serve lunch starting at about 1130.

If you would like to sign up to provide a meal for us on a Monday during the summer, please use the sign-up link below.  We will be in touch to let you know when your box is ready and to answer any questions you might have about your meal. We have plenty of large roasting ovens, crockpots and serving bowls.  May 25th and September 7th are federal holidays, so lunches will be served on Tuesday, May 26th and Tuesday, September 8th on those weeks.

Wednesday lunches will be Community Potluck Day, along with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, ramen noodles, granola bars and instant oatmeal.   We will be asking people to bring things like side salads, a casserole, chips, cookies, fruit, cold cuts, instant iced tea or lemonade mix to add to our table.  For people who want to help us with food during the summer but can’t commit to cooking a meal for 50 people, this is a great way to participate in our summer lunch program.   We will be publicizing our Community Potluck on Facebook posts, but please help us get the word out by telling your friends or posting this in your church’s weekly bulletin.  We will also be partnering with local restaurants and on some Wednesdays, we will have things like pizza, tacos, sandwiches and hamburgers for our guests.

On Fridays, we are asking for FOUR dedicated cooks (or group of cooks) who will agree to provide a hearty soup plus bread and butter for 50 people once a month for each of the five months we will be open for summer services (May-September).  We want this to be easy – you can make the same soup every month, you can make a soup that can be frozen and drop it off ahead of time, you can get together with several other people and each make the same recipe and then combine it all to make enough for 50 people, plus I have some easy and economical recipes that I’d be happy to share if you would like ideas. 

If you would like to sign up to provide soup on five Fridays during the summer, please use the sign-up link below and sign up for one Friday in each of the five months that we will be open this summer. Friday, June 19 and Friday, July 3 are federal holidays, so soup meals those weeks will be served Thursday, June 18 and Thursday, July 2.

We could not do what we do without your help.  Providing lunches for 50 people three times a week during the summer is no small task and it will take the efforts of many to pull this off.  Thanks so much for all that you’ve done for us in the past and thanks for considering helping us once again.