05/27/2026
Sunday's menu for our differently sheltered friends included but was not limited to:
Crispy spam fried rice with chili crisp
Zuppa Toscana
Pintos with smoked ham and fry bread
Crescent dogs
Pulled pork quesadillas
Baked ziti
Mac and cheese with hot dogs
Spaghetti
Ham, eggs, and potatoes with cheese and salsa
Chicken legs and thighs
Sweet rolls
Big salad
Cole slaw
Macaroni salad
Egg salad sandwiches
Sweets, snacks and drinks
Thank you Bethany Church of the Nazarene for your kitchen, the new sink sprayer, and lettuce from your garden, Country Gourmet at the Market and Panera Bread for your food donations, everyone who picked up donations, everyone who brought prepared food, and to my volunteers Jerry, Sue, Alexa, Eric, Bob, Danielle, Chelsea, Carol, Thomas and Kaitie. Who did I forget? My memory bank is very full and I don't want to forget anyone.
We are consistently serving more and more people every week. I asked my volunteers how many people they thought we served at the first stop. They guessed about a hundred. Our sandwiches usually don't run out until the end of the last stop but we ran out before the end of our first stop this time. We need to up our sandwich game.
Our needs:
Snacks, either individual or bulk that we can portion out.
Drinks, either single serve bottles or gallons/2 liter bottles that we can pour into cups.
Cases of water, at least 3 40 packs per week.
Food donations, either ingredients or prepared food.
Men's work boots! We serve at a center where men are trying to get employment and this is a big need. Steel toe or not, either is greatly appreciated.
We celebrated Gary's birthday with his favorite pineapple upside down cake and he kept half of one cake for himself and dished out the rest. I forgot to mention last Tuesday that we celebrated E's birthday a few days late last week with assorted cheesecake slices and Teardrop's birthday a little early with a Reese's chocolate peanut butter cake.
Please share our posts! If you have any interest in volunteering or donating, please feel free to ask questions. We've come a long way from bagged lunches for twenty people five and a half years ago to now and we hope to be able to continue matching the need. We exist FOR our differently sheltered friends and BECAUSE OF big hearted people who give of themselves so that we can continue providing for them.
Tents are on our Amazon wish list. We have three requests for tents.
"God will provide" has been my mantra. We needed salad and the gentlemen who tends the church's garden asked if I could use some lettuce. He didn't even know we needed salad stuff. He went right out and picked it. I found some cucumbers in the fridge and some shredded cheese and then Marjorie showed up with tomatoes! Thank you, God!
