Winter Feast 2018

By Emmett Findley, Manager of Communications

More than 1,000 volunteers joined us this December to help us prepare and deliver a record-breaking 7,000 Winter Feast meals for people living with HIV, cancer and other life-altering illnesses in the New York City metropolitan area. Every client received a guest meal, so that they could invite a friend to spend the holiday with them. Each client and child on our program also received a gift and a homemade card to help make the holidays special.

On the menu for this year’s Winter Feast: corn chowder, entree, and holiday cookie. Entrees were: braised beef with cherries, salmon with sundried tomato pesto, or a fall vegetable casserole.

Thank you to everyone who these meals possible as we worked together to #CelebrateWithAPlate!

Here’s what it took to make our Winter Feast meal:

3,000 lbs of beef
800 lbs of corn
3,500 lbs of side vegetables
800 gallons of soup
7,200 holiday cookies

We also minced and pureed our Winter Feast meals for clients whose medical conditions require those modifications.

Winter Feast at God’s Love is a huge community effort and we could not do it without our volunteers and supporters. Thank you and happy holidays from all of us at God’s Love!

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Image 1 of 8 Our Winter Feast: braised beef with cherries, pasta, side vegetables

Image 2 of 8 Chefs Andre, Jose, Daniel, and Curtis with our Winter Feast meal

Image 3 of 8 Our fall vegetable casserole Winter Feast

Image 4 of 8 Our Sundried Tomato Pesto & Israeli Couscous Winter Feast

Image 5 of 8 Gerlinde and Roberto with holiday cards and our client gift

Image 6 of 8 Roasted Corn Chowder

Image 7 of 8 Our fantastic volunteers

Image 8 of 8 Holiday sprinkle cookie

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