Today I have another new meal kit recipe! Feel free to make this for yourself or your family or go ahead and print off the recipe card and add it to a gallon sized bag along with the ingredients and fill the pantries in your neighborhood or drop off to a friend who could use a night off from planning dinner.

I haven’t kept up with creating my videos about filling the little free pantries but I’m happy to say that I kept up my commitment of filling them weekly from the time I started in September till the end of the 2025. I’m proud of myself for doing that! I wondered if that commitment would be too much for me but it was so easy for me to want to do it.

I don’t have a video for this one today because my bandwidth has been low. I’ve wondered about making my pantry videos because on my weird-brain-days where I’m feeling insecure, it’s easy to tell myself that I’m just being performative by posting them. But almost every time I make one, someone new tells me that it’s inspired them to go fill the little free pantries in their community and as long as that keeps happening, then I’m going to keep doing them because I really do feel passionately about how easy it is for us to ease one another’s burdens in simple ways.

That being said, I think for budgetary reasons, I’m going to have to reassess my commitment to every other week for 2026. Groceries are expensive right now which means that not only are more people needing these pantries but fewer people are able to fill them. But if we each do what we can, we can take care of one another. I’m going to try to do one Aldi grocery shop for people without kitchens a month and one new recipe for meal kits (for people who do have kitchens) a month. That feels very do-able. Especially if folks like you keep helping to fund the Aldi trips! Every month, people have helped to pay for the Aldi trips which has helped to keep that going. If you’d like to help out, too, click here.