Lasagna Love connects dwelling cooks with neighbors in want

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) – One of the crucial highly effective methods to point out love could also be by a pan of lasagna.

Lasagna Love is a world nonprofit with chapters in southern Wisconsin. Anybody can signal as much as volunteer and get matched with somebody of their space who might use some assist with dinner.

“it’s only a lasagna, however it’s not,” Christine Hammond, a Lasagna Love chef, stated. “It’s the truth that you might be serving to somebody possibly eat for the primary time that day or not have to fret about the price of groceries.”

Now a co-local chief overseeing the Madison space, Hammond says she has cooked for folks going by breast most cancers therapies or those that misplaced their jobs.

Hammond first signed as much as be a volunteer in 2020. At occasions, the full-time working mother baked as many as 4 lasagnas per week, feeding 4 households within the space.

“This was us rising up,” she stated. “Anytime anybody wanted a dish or anyone was sick or anyone was within the hospital, you’d deliver and make a lasagna. That’s simply what we did.”

Shaundra Coleman, a mom of 5, was one in all Hammond’s newest recipients.

“If you see your children consuming it, it’s such as you did one thing for them in the present day,” she stated.

She admits how exhausting it may be to offer. “Typically I’ll be scared if we’d go a day with out meals,” she stated. “Pantries aren’t open daily, or I gained’t have a experience and it’s loads to hold on the bus.”

In response to Hammond, Lasagna Love delivers, about 3,500 meals per week nationwide and, in whole, has delivered to greater than one million folks.

Greater than 35,000 volunteers assist preserve the nonprofit going.

To request a Lasagna Love meal for your loved ones or a good friend, click on here or go to LasagnaLove.org/Request.

To enroll to be a volunteer chef, click on this link or go to LasagnaLove.org/Volunteer.

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