Current Pantry Needs

Help us continue to serve the community during the coronavirus pandemic:

Pantry Needs	Personal Hygiene
Pasta Oatmeal Canned Fruit Tomato Sauce Canned Tomatoes Cooking Oil (like corn oil or vegetable oil)Toilet paper Paper towelsUpdated 3/31/2020	Men’s/Women’s Razors Deodorant Body Wash

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.

Although schools are currently closed, Tri-Lakes Cares is still providing snack packs to families with children on distribution days. Right now we are fortunate to have a surplus of snacks in our pantry to meet the need, but they will go fast once school re-opens.

You can also make a online, secure financial donation to support the future needs of the Snack Pack program – make a notation in the comments section on the form saying you want your donation to support the snack pack program.

Ongoing Snack Pack Needs: All single serve items

Pudding Cups Nuts Fruit snacks Sun chips Trail  mix packs Goldfish packetsUpdated 3/31/2020

Here’s an easy way to support TLC’s Pantry!

One weekend each month, Tri-Lakes Cares partners with the King Soopers on Baptist Road to host a “Buy It Forward” table.

Beginning at 12:00 p.m. on Friday and lasting through Sunday evening (or until all the bags are sold), pre-packed bags of 3 to 5 items and usually costing between $5 to $8 per bag are available for purchase.

Pick up one of the pre-packed bags as you enter King Soopers, do your shopping, and then pay for the pre-packed bag when you check out. Keep part of the receipt for tax purposes and drop the pre-packed bag off at the designated area. Volunteers deliver the bags to TLC on Monday morning and the donated food supports TLC’s food insecurity programs.

It’s that easy – you get your shopping done and you help stock TLC’s 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!)

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

Thank you to everyone in the community who donated to this valuable program in 2019!