Thank you to everyone who has signed up so far! You are telling us your situations and we are hearing you. Some of you are experiencing:

Lost childcare supplements during the shutdown.
Lost parent/child and now raising your grown child’s children (aka your grandchildren).
Diabetic child needs nourishing food while mom works more and more hours.

We have emailed out reservations for the first 20 signups, and are coordinating delivery and pickup times.

Chef Jon Lombardi has seen each and every one of your submissions. 🥹 He has extended the meal total to 40, and then must cut off.

To sign up, visit the original article and fill out the form at the bottom of it.

Thank you all, and blessings. 🙏🏽🤲🏽

Behind The Scenes

This moment captured on video was shared first on ALBB’s Instagram. It has been lifted from there to here at the blog for everyone to see:

I shared this video with my Personal IG, and I suppose it’s safe to share with you too 🥰 I promise I’m trying to get the newsletter out this Friday Night!! Love our advertisers 🥰

When your longtime client Carter’s Restaurant wants to give away 20 Thanksgiving meals in response to SNAP cutoff; and the people start signing up for them and you’re learning their stories and coordinating their pickup/delivery times because Beacon Bicycle Coalition offered to deliver free, and the signup is almost to 20 meals so Jon increased to 40, and you tell him you want to wait to announce till Saturday or Sunday and he says NOW. 🥰🥰🥰🫡👊🏼🙌🏽

Meanwhile, the president of the United States is trying to make overrides to keep SNAP shut.

I love my job because I love the people involved. So much gratitude to Jon for doing this and providing for the people. Have received many reach outs from businesses and people searching for ways to help. Keep going. 👊🏼

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