Changing The Menu

We are lucky to have longtime volunteer Sarah on our team. She is an artist and every week designs a menu for our guests to see as they enter Kempton Hall. Today she patiently changed the menu many times for us. Thank you Sarah!

 At the Wednesday Community Meal we rely on gleaning to help keep our food costs manageable.

And one of our biggest supporters is Good Samaritan Hospital which lets us glean from their kitchen every week.

We get great food from Good Sam - hotel pans filled with things like shepherd's pie, sweet and sour shrimp, barbecue chicken and all kinds of soup. 

The thing is we just don't know for certain what and how much of it we'll have. One pan of breaded cod can feed 20 but today we served 308.

As a result we often have to change our menu at the Wednesday Community Meal to be able to utilize the food we've gleaned. Our entrees today included Italian chicken, baked chicken, pork roast, breaded cod, salmon, catfish, beef stir fry, sweet and sour shrimp and shepherd's pie.

It can be hectic but that's okay because we are working together and making lots of hungry people happy.

Volunteers Anne, Jeff and Tiffany pause for a quick picture before getting back to plating food. With so many menu changes they worked extra hard today.