Allergies, Food Delivery, Hospice Care, Volunteer Management
GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR RESIDENTS IN SOUTH CENTRAL PA!
Share your culinary talents! Simply make a little extra when cooking for yourself and/or your family!
The end-of-life journey is a time when extra comfort and support is needed as patients and their families are often fatigued physically, emotionally, and spiritually. A simple home-cooked soup or casserole that can be taken from the freezer, heated, and enjoyed is a huge blessing as it's one less thing to think about, especially among patient care demands.
HOW THE PROGRAM WORKS:
- Contact Ory Bower, Volunteer Coordinator to share your interest.
- Purchase or Homeland Hospice can provide needed materials (please see for what we provide)
- Prepare soups and casseroles. Perhaps you cook a little extra when making your own meal or maybe you have left overs that would make a delicious casserole or soup. Meals can be the same or varied.
- Complete an information sheet that includes ingredients (due to allergies) and rewarming instructions.
- Wrap the casseroles in foil (No lids, please. They come off and are hard to work with). Place casserole or soup in a gallon freezer bag along with your information sheet and freeze.
- Schedule a time for the volunteer coordinator to pick up meals or a time to deliver to the Homeland Hospice office.
- The casseroles and soups are kept in a freezer at Homeland Hospice and delivered by volunteers and staff to patients and their families.
MATERIALS NEEDED: (Provided by Homeland Hospice or, if able, supplied by volunteer)
- 8" x 8" aluminum casserole pans and/or 32 ounce plastic soup containers
- Blank meal ingredient/rewarming instructions labels - provided to you by Homeland Hospice.
- Gallon Size Freezer Bags - The freezer bag helps to ensure meals arrive to patients/families in the best possible condition, avoid freezer burn and the label remains intact.