We are so grateful for the support of our local partners. Meals on Wheels of Wake County serves over 1,300 seniors experiencing food shortage and isolation. With your help, we are able to provide so much more than a meal to our clients! Listed below are ways that your organization can help support seniors. Please follow the specifications listed for each item for ease of storage and transportation to the distributed sites we have across the county.
*Please contact Stephanie Thurm at stephanie@wakemow.org to coordinate delivery for all items*
Breakfast bags and shelf stable meal bags are a wonderful way to supply our seniors with extra food should the power go out, or should they not have a prepared meal handy. Please review our document regarding supplemental food bags before preparing them. Please reach out to stephanie@wakemow.org to coordinate the delivery of before the bags are prepared.
Breakfast bag suggested items:
- Soft, reduced sugar granola bars, such as Nutri-Grain bars
- Ensure/ shelf stable meal replacement drinks/ protein drinks
- Shelf stable fruit juices
- Low sodium grits
- Lower sodium/ sugar oatmeal packs
- Low sugar fruit cups *We suggest peaches, mandarin oranges, fruit cocktails or other options over applesauce*
- Healthy packaged muffins
- Low sugar cereal packs
- Peanut butter/ nut butter
- Dried fruit
Lunch bags/ Meal bag suggested items
- Pouches of tuna/ chicken
- Low sodium pull top soups and vegetables
- We suggest avoiding canned corn and green beans
- Peanut butter/ nut butter
- Whole wheat crackers other than saltines
- Vegetable juice
- Shelf stable fruit juices
- Microwavable meals *Hormel Compleats & Barilla Shelf Stable meals are examples*
- Dried fruit/ low sugar fruit and nut blends
- Low sugar fruit cups *We suggest peaches, mandarin oranges, fruit cocktails or other options over applesauce*
- Soft shelf stable & ready to eat protein bars
- Low sodium pretzels, crackers, biscuits
A thoughtful note goes a long way to the 1 in 4 seniors that experience loneliness from isolation. Please have notes or cards delivery ready- reach out to stephanie@wakemow.org to coordinate drop off.
We love providing meals from the community to our clients- it is a critical part of not only ensuring that they experience a diversity of cuisine, but also a wonderful way to keep seniors rooted in their communities. If you would like to fund local meals for our clients, please reach out to stephanie@wakemow.org
We rely strongly on our volunteers to help us serve our seniors. In order to coordinate the details of delivery and storage of donated items, please reach out to stephanie@wakemow.org. Many of our sites do not have additional storage, and we have limited capacity for transporting items en masse.
Sites marked *No Storage* are sites where we cannot store donated items.
Meals on Wheels Main Office (375 seniors)
1001 Blair Drive, Raleigh
Northern Wake Senior Center (50 seniors)
235 E. Holding Ave, Wake Forest
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church (175 seniors) *No Storage*
7506 Falls of Neuse, Raleigh
Pine Acres Community Center (65 seniors)
402 McLean Street, Fuquay-Varina
Garner Senior Center (65 seniors)
205 E. Garner Road, Garner
East Wake Senior Center (20 seniors)
323 Lake Drive, Wendell
Zebulon (40 seniors) *No Storage*
114 W. Sycamore St., Zebulon
Green Pines Baptist Church (30 seniors) *No Storage*
1498 Hodge Road, Knightdale
Luther Green Community Center (25 seniors) *No Storage*
922 N. Church Street, Morrisville
Resurrection Lutheran Church (50 seniors) *No Storage*
100 Lochmere Drive, Cary
New Horizons Fellowship (35 seniors) *No Storage*
820 E. Williams Street, Apex