Helping Food-Insecure Families With School-Aged Children

THANK YOU for adopting a family in need.

Goal: Replace 5 breakfast meals and 5 lunch meals per child in need.
If planning for snacks, this is bonus territory.
Please target meeting 1 healthy snack per day.
PLEASE check with your receiving family for any food allergies or sensitivities. 

• This list of pantry ideas requires no refrigeration and can be porch-delivered for contact avoidance if needed.
• Please AVOID sugary snacks and low-nutrition (junk food) items, as well as glass packaging and expired items.
• If your canned good items are not pop-top, please consider including a can opener as a gift with your delivery.
• You are not being asked to buy everything on this list. Please pick and choose items that might be available.
• Remember the support goal is to replace what a child would receive normally at school; 5+5.
• Food items are strongly preferred over money donations due to supply chain scarcity in stores.
• Please coordinate delivery time and date directly with your matched recipient.

Dry or Boxed Goods

• Rice or Rice-Mix Side Dish Packages (like Ready Rice)
• Pasta or Pasta-Based Packages (like Macaroni & Cheese, Helpers, or any Meals in Box)
• Pasta sauce packets (spaghetti, alfredo, etc…)
• Beans or Bean-Mixes
• Potato Flakes or Potato Side Dish Packets
• Bagels or English Muffins
• Bread (may also include tortillas or wraps)
• Whole-grain breakfast cereal
• Granola or Breakfast Cereal Bars
• Oatmeal or Cream of Wheat
• Velveeta cheese
• Crackers (Triscuit, saltine or similar)
• Pancake & Muffin Mix (like Bisquick)
• Shelf-stable or powdered milk
• Condiment items (squeeze relish, mustard, ketchup, miracle whip)

 Canned/Contained Goods

• Fruit cups or canned fruit mixes
• Applesauce
• Canned fish (tuna or salmon) or tuna-packet meals
• Canned meats (spam, ham, vienna sausages, chicken or turkey)
• *Peanut Butter (please check with recipients for allergies)
• Jelly or jam (any flavor, 16 oz plastic)
• Canned beans (any kind)
• Soups, stews and chili
• Squeeze cheese (like Easy Cheese)
• Tomato sauce or paste
• Canned diced tomatoes
• Canned vegetables (any)
• Cooking oil (olive or canola)

Produce

• Onions
• Potatoes
• Carrots
• Apples
• Bananas
• Oranges or Cuties