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February Food Pantry Need
The food pantry continues to have a need for: pasta without meat, like Spaghetti-os Hamburger Helper boxed macaroni and cheese Jello is always good too!
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January Food Pantry Needs
January can be cold in this part of the world. At a similar latitude and longitude to ours but on the other side of the world, the average January temperature is 60°F. Wouldn’t that be nice? Of course, that is just about the height of summer in La Roche Godon, a french territory in the…
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Food Pantry Needs for December
For the month of December, our food pantry item is canned fruit! Bring as many cans of fruit as you are able during the month of December; pears, peaches, pineapple, fruit cocktail, etc.
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November Food Pantry Needs
We’re in need of sugar! Our contribution of sugar for last year’s Christmas food boxes was such a success, that we’ve been tasked with it again this year. We need 4-pound bags of sugar by November 26th. We’ll keep a tally, so you’ll know how many we still need each week when you come through the…
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Food Pantry Needs for October
For the month of October, look for canned cranberry sauce and evaporated milk for the Food Pantry. Both are very important for their Thanksgiving meals, and many people often overlook donating them. Evaporated milk can be purchased at Save-a-Lot for $0.89 a can, but you might be able to find it cheaper elsewhere too. We…
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August Food Pantry Needs
You did a fabulous job of bringing items in June and July for the food pantry box. Those are slim months for donations for the food pantry, and we managed to get them 82 additional items. For August, the focus is canned carrots. Think of all the eyesight that you’ll be preserving! If you have…
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Food Pantry Needs for July
National Bean Day might be in January, but we need to think about beans in July. The food pantry item for this month is canned beans. Wait! We are not talking about canned green beans. We’re talking about legumes: kidney beans, lima beans, cannellini beans, great northern beans, black beans, pinto beans, refried beans…the list…
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Food Pantry Needs
This is “NO Can June”! During the month of June, many of us will be busy planning and packing for vacation. Whether off to parts unknown or just heading into St. Louis for a stay at the Moonrise, one requirement is to pack light. Nobody wants to lug a huge suitcase around an airport or…
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Food Pantry Update for May
For the month of May, your mission is to bring in canned carrots or Hamburger Helper. (You can be really creative and bring in Hamburger Helper that has carrots in it, but we’ll still just count it one time.) The summer is a bit of a lean time for the pantry; for food and volunteers.…
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Food Pantry Update
Right now, the food pantry could really use canned potatoes. They have plenty of green beans, peas, and corn, but there’s a considerable shortable of canned potatoes. Please bring a can or two during the month of April. The goal is to get 50 cans of potatoes during the month. Like we did with the…