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Food for Friends March and April choices

From: Beverly Pead
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 2:21 PM
To: Mary Ann Wordsworth; Stephanie Smith; Anita Sarro; Donna Pinciak; Branda Mathieu; Sheila Fitzgerald; Carol Brunelle; Carol Deten; Doris Gagnon
Cc: Beverly Pead
Subject: Food for Friends March and April choices

Dear Bakers,

I am trying to give you more advanced notice about upcoming desserts.  Please let me know which desserts you would prefer to bake.  I will make March choices "first come, first served" and then reverse the order for April.  In other words, if you are the last to reply and have to make something you didn't want to make in March, you will get your choice of desserts for April.

The choices for March are oatmeal raisin cookies or blueberry muffins.

The choices for April are brownies or blueberry crumble.

I will be sending recipes soon.  I will be testing the oatmeal raisin cookie, blueberry crumble and blueberry muffin recipes.  As always, if you have your own favorite recipe for an item, you may substitute it for the one I send, as long as the serving sizes are comparable.  You may use any brownie recipe or mix as long as you add nuts.

I want to streamline my deliveries as well, so I will be planning to deliver items once every two months. 

I will be bringing everyone a two-month supply of gloves and hairnets.

I will bring frozen blueberries to all those who will be making either the muffins or the crumble. 

I will bring containers to those making crumble.

Let me know if you will be needing more baggies for packaging the cookies, brownies, or muffins.

Nuts will be used in the cookies and brownies.  Let me know if you still have some left or if you need me to bring you a bag of nuts.

I will need you to be home for the blueberry deliveries so that they do not defrost.   I will e-mail later to make these arrangements.

See you in about two weeks for the deliveries.

Bev

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Question/ Food for Friends

From: take and eat <takeandeat@verizon.net>

Date: Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 4:44 PM
Subject: RE: FW: Question/ Food for Friends
To: "Buijnarowski, Charlotte

Hi Charlotte,

     Our understanding with all of the Elder Services Agencies that we work with is that they do not furnish to us any clients who have an eating disorder or severe food allergy that could put them at risk.

We also are not prepared to "personalize" meals to accommodate diabetic clients who require a restricted diet.  
     The rule we have utilized is that, while we know there are diabetic issues among some of our clients, we trust them to utilize their judgment and consume those foods that are good for them and reject those that are not.  I have had a handful of clients over the years who have contacted me to indicate that they needed to be more diligent with their diet and requested that they be removed from the client list – but this has been the exception, not the rule.  I also have had a few clients along the way who indicated that they know they should not consume some of the desserts or breads and pass them on to a neighbor or friend.

     As you know, we encourage all of our Ministry teams to utilize fresh or frozen products and refrain from canned goods which are loaded with sugars and salts.  

     It is very kind of the baker to offer to prepare some "diabetic friendly" desserts but we do not have a list of who might be diabetic.  

     I hope this helps.

     Thanks much,

     Kathleen

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From: Buijnarowski, Charlotte [mailto:cbuijnarowski@massmutual.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:05 PM
To: takeandeat@verizon.net

Subject: RE: FW: Question/ Food for Friends

Hi Kathleen,

As you will see below, we have a volunteer who has offered to create some diabetic-friendly desserts each month.  How do you handle the diabetic issue now?  Do you know who on our client list is diabetic???  I would appreciate any guidance you can offer.

Thanks,

Charlotte

Charlotte Buijnarowski

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From: BobJudge
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:03 AM
To: Sheila Fitzgerald
Cc: Buijnarowski, Charlotte
Subject: RE: FW: Question/ Food for Friends

Sheila:

     I will send a copy of this email to Charlotte Buijnarowski, the Food For Friends (FFF) Coordinator.  She may forward it to Steve Foster.  In any case, you will then hear back from Charlotte, Steve, or someone else, with a phone number of the right person for you to call to discuss further.

     Thanks for the offer!

- Bob Judge

From: Sheila Fitzgerald
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 9:26 AM
To: BobJudge@comcast.net
Subject: Re: FW: Question/ Food for Friends

 Thanks Bob.

One more question.  We have been preparing meals for between 60/75 people, I would suspect that perhaps a few within this group could be diabetic.  In addition to the 15 or so desserts I put up each month, I'd be more than happy to prepare diabetic deserts for the few, if any that are diabetic.

I would be willing to make the call if there is someone I can call, that would have that information and could give me a rough number so that we will always have a healthier dessert choice to pack for them.  Do you know who I can call to ask? 

Shelia

February desserts

Dear Bakers,

It's that time again!

This Saturday we are delivering chocolate cupcakes with white frosting (any recipe is fine) and cherry cheesecake (see recipe below). 

We need a total of 72 of each item.  We need 6 people to make, frost and bag 6 dozen cupcakes.  Since each recipe of cheesecake makes 8 servings, we need some of our bakers to make 2 recipes and some to make one.  Our newest volunteer (whose recipe we are using) is making 2 recipes, so we need a total of 7 more batches.

Please let me know which item you wish to make.

Let me know if you need containers, bags, hair nets, gloves or cherries.

Let me know if you want me to pick up your baked goods on Friday evening or Saturday morning, or if you will be delivering them to the United Methodist Church between 7 and 5:30 on Friday or if you will be delivering these items to the Congo Church on Saturday morning.

I also need ideas for next month.  We now have frozen blueberries.  Any ideas?  Any good recipes?

Thanks!

Bev

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SHANNON'S NO-BAKE CHEESECAKE

·        1 Package cream cheese

·        ¼ Cup sugar

·        1 8oz. tub of Cool Whip

·        1 Tablespoon milk

·        1 graham cracker crust

Blend cream cheese until smooth and then add sugar.  Blend until smooth and add Cool Whip and milk.  Blend until smooth and pout into crust.  Cool until firm (about 4 hours)

CHERRY PIE FILLING

·        3 cups cherries

·        ¾  cup water

·        ¾  cup sugar

·        3 Tablespoons cornstarch

In a saucepan cook cherries in water for 10 minutes.  Mix together the sugar and cornstarch; add to cherries.  Cook cherry mixture until thickened.  Cool.

PACKAGING DIRECTIONS

Cut pie into 8 slices.  Put one slice in each container.  Spoon cherry pie filling over each piece.  Put  covers on containers.  

All Saints' Contribution

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From: Charlotte Buijnarowski <charlottecb@comcast.net>
Date: Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: All Saints' Contribution
To: All Saints Church <allsaintschurchoffice@gmail.com>
Cc:... "

Hello Cynthia,

Your meal preparation plans sound wonderful - thank you so much!!!

I'm copying our cooks on this email, as they are the meal planners.  I'll let them respond to you regarding the salmon pies and soda bread, but I'm betting that they may want to include both in our March 20th menu!

Thanks,

Charlotte

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From: All Saints Church

To: charlottecb@comcast.net

Cc: Rev. Tanya Wallace

Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 9:39 PM

Subject: All Saints' Contribution

Hi Charlotte,

I am writing to offer a special contribution for the Food for Friends program from All Saints' Episcopal Church in South Hadley. As one of the first events of our 2010 outreach ministry, Simple Gifts: The Food Project! Rene Beauchemin (our Senior Warden and owner of Langelier's Bakery) will be baking salmon pies in our church kitchen on February 27th and he has offered to create extra salmon pies for your program. As the pies will then be frozen, you may use them on a date of your choice.

From reading your blog, it appears that Food for Friends fed 64 people in January. All Saints' would be happy to contribute enough salmon pies, divided into 8 parts, to give each of these Food for Friends meal recipients a healthy slice of salmon pie as an entree. Delivery to the Congregational Church can be arranged whenever it is convenient, as it is just a block away from All Saints'.

For St. Patrick's Day, Rene will be producing Irish Soda Bread which we thought might make a nice contribution for the Food for Friends meals prepared on March 20th. Please let us know what you think.

All Saints' Simple Gifts:  The Food Project! hopes to be of more service in the future.  Food for Friends is a wonderful program and provides so much more than just food to the Seniors in South Hadley.

Peace,

Cynthia Lambert
     All Saints' Episcopal Church
     Parish Administrator