Soup and Casserole Making

GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR RESIDENTS IN SOUTH CENTRAL PA!

Share your culinary talents! Simply make a little extra when cooking for yourself and/or your family!

The end-of-life journey is a time when extra comfort and support is needed as patients and their families are often fatigued physically, emotionally, and spiritually. A simple home-cooked soup or casserole that can be taken from the freezer, heated, and enjoyed is a huge blessing as it's one less thing to think about, especially among patient care demands.

HOW THE PROGRAM WORKS:

1. Contact Ory Bower, Volunteer Coordinator to share your interest.
2. Purchase or Homeland Hospice can provide needed materials (please see for what we provide)
3. Prepare soups and casseroles. Perhaps you cook a little extra when making your own meal or maybe you have left overs that would make a delicious casserole or soup. Meals can be the same or varied.
4. Complete an information sheet that includes ingredients (due to allergies) and rewarming instructions.
5. Wrap the casseroles in foil (No lids, please. They come off and are hard to work with). Place casserole or soup in a gallon freezer bag along with your information sheet and freeze.
6. Schedule a time for the volunteer coordinator to pick up meals or a time to deliver to the Homeland Hospice office.
7. The casseroles and soups are kept in a freezer at Homeland Hospice and delivered by volunteers and staff to patients and their families.

MATERIALS NEEDED: (Provided by Homeland Hospice or, if able, supplied by volunteer)

• 8" x 8" aluminum casserole pans and/or 32 ounce plastic soup containers
• Blank meal ingredient/rewarming instructions labels - provided to you by Homeland Hospice.
• Gallon Size Freezer Bags - The freezer bag helps to ensure meals arrive to patients/families in the best possible condition, avoid freezer burn and the label remains intact.