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2024 Food At First 37th Community-wide THANKSGIVING MEAL was Thursday November 28, 2024 11:30 am – 1:30 pm

T H A N K S G I V I N G. 2 0 2 4

S T A T S T H A N K S G I V I N G. 2 0 2 4

Meals

  • Total meals served 950 !!
  • 437 meals delivered
  • 339 take home meals
  • 174 eat in meals
  • 150+ volunteers

Food

  • 48 Turkeys
  • 4 Tofurkey
  • 550 lbs potatoes
  • 6 giant pans gravy
  • 30 pans Stuffing
  • 18 pans Green Bean casserole
  • 100 lbs corn
  • Lots of squash
  • 100 lbs cranberry sauce
  • 850 dinner rolls (not everyone wants one)
  • 3 large tubs homemade Applesauce
  • Lots of grapes
  • 2,064 Pumpkin bars (we double stack)
  • 175 lbs Cream Cheese frosting

Leftovers:

  • 4 pans stuffing
  • 3 pans turkey
  • 4 pans squash
  • 1 pan green bean casserole
  • 0 mashed potatoes
  • 4 pans pumpkin bars
  • 50 servings cranberry sauce

FoodatFirst.com/volunteer

Location: 611 Clark, First Christian Church, Ames, IA (across from Ames Police Station). Dine-in, carry-out or delivery.

VOLUNTEER

Thanksgiving 2024 at Food at First – Sign up to volunteer. Prep, serve or cleanup. Thanksgiving volunteer shifts are available for the 3 days before Thanksgiving + Thu Nov 28, 2024 the day of the big Food at First Thanksgiving event! Thank you so much to all our amazing volunteers ! FoodatFirst.com

Every volunteer needs to have their own FAF account and be signed up, kitchen and prep space is limited. Please do not bring extra family members that are not signed up. Thank you for understanding, and thank you for volunteering!!

Gather and …

Food at First Thanksgiving 2024. 3 choices: dine in, carry out or delivery. Food at First is Thankful for its many volunteers today and every day, the many donations and gifts, the thousands of hours of dedicated volunteers, every day, all year, and all the people that Food at First helps to make life a brighter safer place. So much to be grateful and give thanks for!

… Give Thanks

Stats from last year:

Wow! Last year 900 Thanksgiving meals were served Thanksgiving day. 185 Dine-in + 715 carry-out or delivered meals. Dozens of hard working Food at First volunteers worked all Thanksgiving week to create this delicious tradition. Everyone is always welcome, no questions asked.

If you would like to make a cash donation to Food at First go to http://www.FoodatFirst.com/donate then click the yellow donate button.