Current Pantry Needs

Every year, Tri-Lakes Cares provides holiday food baskets to our eligible clients at Thanksgiving and at Christmas.

These are the items needed for this year’s Christmas holiday food baskets.

Christmas

Hams

Mashed Potato Mix

Stuffing

Rice Sides

Cornbread Mix

Yams

Gravy

Cranberry Sauce

Frosting

Hot Chocolate Mix

Apple Cider Mix

These are our current needs for the Pantry

Food	Personal Hygiene	Paper Goods/Cleaning Products
Canned Fruit	Shampoo	Toilet Paper
Cereal & Oatmeal	Conditioner	Laundry detergent
Canned tomato products	Toothbrushes	Dishwashing Liquid
Rice (no large/family sizes)	Toothpaste	All purpose household cleaners
Pasta & Spaghetti	Razors
Peanut Butter	Deodorant
Canned Chicken	Bar soap
Canned Tuna	Feminine Hygiene Products
Flour (5 lbs or smaller)	Baby Diapers
Almond Milk	Baby Wipes
Coconut Milk

• Why non-food items? Because, these are things that cannot be purchased with food stamps and in order to stay healthy, individuals and families need these items too.

You can also make a online, secure financial donation, and select “Pantry” from the drop-down menu.

During the school year, Tri-Lakes Cares partners with local schools to provide snacks to children over the weekends, who are on the free and/or reduced meal plans. Currently, we are providing snacks to approximately 400 children on a weekly basis.

These are the items which are most needed to fulfill these needs. If donating, please make sure the items are all single serve packs. You can also make a online, secure financial donation, and select “Snack Pack program” from the drop-down menu.

Snack Pack: All single serve items
Applesauce cups
Fruit cups (packed in juice or water)
Veggie straws
Granola bars
Cheese and/or Peanut Butter crackers
Pretzels
Pudding Cups
Single serving cereal boxes
Nuts
Fruit snacks
Sun chips
Trail  mix packs
Goldfish packets

Here’s an easy way to support our Pantry!

On the first weekend of every month (unless there is a holiday, and then it is on the second weekend), King Soopers on Baptist Road hosts our “Buy It Forward” table.

Beginning at 12 Noon on Friday through Sunday evening (or until all the bags are sold), pre-packed bags of 3 to 5 items and usually costing less than $6.00 per bag are available.

You pick up one of the bags as you enter, do your shopping and at check out pay for the bag. Keep part of the receipt for tax purposes and drop the bag off at the designated area. Volunteers then deliver the bags to our pantry on Monday morning.

It’s that easy – you get your shopping done and you help stock our shelves as well!

 

Are you a home gardener? Do you always plant more than you can use? If so, we are more than happy to accept your donations of excess home-grown produce for our “Help Yourself” market. (Now you don’t have to sneak that extra zucchini to your neighbor’s porch!)