Lunches for Simpson Family Outing to the Children's Museum

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Goal of Position:

Volunteers create nutritious lunches for the Simpson Housing Services Family Housing Program participants when they take a trip together to the Science Museum. Volunteers purchase the food items needed for the lunches, assemble them, and drop them off to Simpson's office located at 2100 Pillsbury South Minneapolis. Approximate cost is between $100 - $120.

Timeframe

Delivery should be scheduled for Thursday, February 8 between the hours of 12PM and 4PM.

Location

Deliver lunches to Bell House - 2100 Pillsbury Ave S. Minneapolis, MN 55404

Shopping List

Food Handling Materials

• Cleaning supplies
• Hand sanitizer if a sink and hand soap is not available in the room
• Cardboard boxes or paper bags for transporting bag lunches
• A few permanent markers

25 Lunches for Families (keeping young children in mind)

Your goal is to make hearty and delicious lunches that youth would like to eat. Quality is more important than quantity. Families enjoy roast beef, chicken, turkey, salami, and pastrami. They also enjoy bagels with plain cream cheese. Please do not purchase bologna. No condiments or vegetables on the sandwiches. Do not make peanut butter and jelly, chicken salad, or tuna salad sandwiches.

• 30 paper lunch bags
• 30 napkins
• 30sandwiches - Basic sandwiches / tortilla wraps/bagels or ham/cheese or turkey/cheese
• 30 Juice Boxes/water bottles/pop
• 30 Fruit/Vegetable servings; clementine, apple, banana, applesauce, or mini carrots with dip. Please provide utensil, if needed.
• 30 Individually pre-packaged snack; crackers, chips, cheese stick, etc.
• 30 Individually pre-packaged treats; cookie, brownie, dried fruit, or chewy granola bar (optional).
• Small individual serving packets of mustard and mayo (optional)

Guidelines

• Minimum number of volunteers: 1.
• Maximum number of volunteers: 15.
• Children/youth groups must have a minimum adult to child ratio of 1:5.

Food Preparation Procedure

1. Carefully clean the food preparation area or cover table with new paper/plastic.
2. Ask that people with long hair tie their hair back.
3. Ask all volunteers to wear hairnets.
4. Ask volunteers to roll up long sleeves.
5. Make sure every person thoroughly washes and dries their hands.
6. Everyone must wear plastic gloves. Please read the following instructions about gloves to your entire group.

You must change your gloves if:

• You touch your face, hair, clothing
• You touch a part of the room that was not sterilized (chair, doorknob, etc.)
• You touch another person
• You use the bathroom
• You cough or sneeze
• Your gloves get ripped or torn

1. If you are working with youth, please ask that they respect the food. Remind them to treat the food as if they were making a sandwich for their best friend. Avoid making thumbprints in the bread, squishing sandwiches into bags, playing with the food, etc.
2. Assemble the sandwiches by placing at least one piece of meat and one piece of cheese between two slices of bread.
3. Place each sandwich in a sandwich bag.
4. Ask volunteers to place napkins, sandwich, fruit, juice box, snack, and treats in the paper lunch bags.
5. Store completed lunches in cold storage for transportation.
6. Thank the volunteers and clean up the work space.
7. Deliver the food to Bell House during our donation hours.