Basket Brigade 2014

This morning Amy, Alice, Kasey and I met up to take part in Basket Brigade. 

Basket Brigade is where individuals come together as a group to provide hampers of food for needy people.

People fund raise (Thank you to all the companies who made donations) and collect food and on one day we come together and make the hampers and then get them delivered to where they are needed.  A big thanks also to Croke Park - what an amazing stadium to be in !!

The aim was to make over 130 hampers but we ended up making 150!!

There was also food and money left over which will be delivered to the Capuchins who will be feeding over 2,000 people this week.

Click here to read about the 2012 Basket Brigade event.

Getting busy!

Each hamper is filled with fresh veg, a chicken, a ham and also lots of non-perishable foods.  We put in a packet of porridge for breakfast along with crackers and jam for a snack.  Packets of soup are added and tins of tuna and fruit and also pasta and pasta sauce. Tea, coffee and sugar is a basic in every hamper and there is lots of sweet stuff such as mince pies, jelly and custard.  Crisps and biscuits are also additions to the pack of food.  It really is a nice selection of food that hopefully helps families have a nice meal on Christmas Day.  

We made up 3 hampers at a time as per Kasey's clever suggestion!

Each hamper had a list of all of the essential items to be added.

Along with food we added paperware of toilet rolls, kitchen roll and tin foil to the hamper - brilliant for those who don't have kitchen essentials.

All lined up ready to go!