Posted on 08/10/2021 9:20:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
On a recent summer morning, Lynn Hirsch was determined as she packed the back of her gray SUV with 20 aluminum pans of lasagna. The retiree was on a mission: Drive nearly 70 miles from her suburb of Atlanta to two rural Georgia towns and get the hearty dishes into the hands of people who needed them.
It's an increasingly typical mission for volunteers of Lasagna Love — a grassroots nonprofit organization of 33,000 people across the country who are sharing free lasagnas with Americans struggling with financial and other challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The group is one of many charitable initiatives launched during the pandemic to help families counter hunger, and pay for housing costs and other expenses.
In an average week, 69-year-old Hirsch makes and delivers four lasagnas near her Alpharetta, Georgia home. But this time, she wanted to do something different — help feed those in the Georgia cities of Chatsworth and Dalton who had been requesting meals but couldn’t get them because of a lack of volunteer chefs in their areas. Frustrated by the need, Hirsch and other chefs volunteered to make the meals, which, in part, helped the nonprofit recently surpass its 100,000 lasagna delivery mark.
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Lasagnas, especially as leftovers, are some of the most delicious foods you can eat!
What’s better than lasagna? Free lasagna!
“carb bombs”
Does it come with a tossed salad and garlic bread?
Yummm...
When the retired motorcycle cop riding club visited last month, Mom’s Legion did a lasagne, garlic bread and Caesar salad dinner, and opened the dance hall for them to sleep that night.
Much fun was had by all. My elbow still hurts for some reason...
LOL! Good for them!
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