If you’re coming here from my Instagram, HI! I usually write about what I’m reading but my brain has been preoccupied, lately, about how our neighbors are currently without SNAP benefits and what I can do to help.

I. Have. A. Lot. Of. Thoughts. But I’m not using this space for that right now. I don’t even have much brain space in this moment to make this as thorough as I wish I could. Right now, I just wanted to share the info that I have about the meals I distributed around my town today.

I created 64 Servings of food in three different meal-types. I put everything you need to make a shelf-stable meal into a ziplock bag, added instructions, and then took them around to the Little Free Pantries spread around our town.

Cajun Ham and Bean Soup makes 8, 1-cup servings:

Butter Chicken makes 4 servings
Chicken Burrito Bowl makes 4 servings
Add all ingredients into one bag so that you can make both meals with one bag of rice.

I’ve been following Dollar Tree Dinners for a little over a year and a few months ago she made this video about pantry meals where I got this idea for putting ingredients into a bag.

I have been seeing her content being shared amongst all of my friends the past few days and I’m so glad that people are finally discovering this gem of a human. I love that she’s extremely mindful of what “accessibility” can mean to different people. So many people who talk about budget meals want you to do evvvvverything from scratch and some of us have to, like, work. We can’t all grind our flour by hand even if it does save us thirty five cents.