Every Thanksgiving you get up early, make yourself crazy in the kitchen and wear yourself out feeding your whole family. Like they do every year, the D.C.-based nonprofit Food & Friends is offering to take one dish off your plate. Or, you could say it’s a chance to do good even while eating bad.
Food & Friends has kicked off its annual Slice of Life fundraiser. You can buy pies to help cover the costs of Thanksgiving meals for those who are too sick — think cancer and HIV patients, those with heart and kidney failure, and other debilitating illnesses — that they can’t do it themselves.
“So imagine the last time you had the flu and you were trying to make soup for yourself. So now imagine that you have cancer, and how tough that can be when you’re going through chemotherapy, and not feeling well enough to cook for yourself,” said Carrie Stoltzfus, the executive director of Food & Friends. “So that’s when Food and Friends steps in to help take care of people.”
This year, Food & Friends, and the bevy of volunteers who help out every day, are putting together about 900 Thanksgiving meals, which is enough to feed about 4,500 people when you include the loved ones who can gather around those meals. Those meals include roasted turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, rolls, and of course, a pie…