Lake Tahoe Now

Submitted by paula on Wed, 03/02/2022 – 4:05pm

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – After two years of modified services for the local food-insecure community due to the pandemic, Bread & Broth has announced they are resuming hot meal services. The hot meals will replace the food bag giveaways they provided two days per week for the past 24 months.

Starting Friday, March 4, Second Serving meals will return to the Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church located at 2733 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe. From 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. each Friday, the meals will consist of a soup and a simple entree (lasagna, chili dogs, pasta dishes, etc.). Dinner guests will be provided with “giveaway” bags containing canned goods, bread, and pastries, based on the availability of food items.

Then, on Monday, April 4, Bread & Broth will return to serving Monday Meals, providing a full-course, nutritious hot meal with second servings, “to go” and food “giveaway” bags filled with dairy products, fruits, vegetables, bread, and more. These dinners will be provided each Monday from 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. at St. Theresa Grace Hall, 1041 Lyons Avenue, South Lake Tahoe….Read more

Submitted by paula on Sun, 01/02/2022 – 4:09pm

In a similar fashion to the COVID-impacted holiday season of 2020, Bread & Broth once again hosted holiday meal food giveaways in 2021 to provide Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners to food-insecure members of the Lake Tahoe South Shore community.

In early November, Bread & Broth reached out to the community requesting funds to purchase food for the upcoming holidays, and the community responded generously.

For Thanksgiving, Bread & Broth distributed the normal food staples such as fresh fruit and vegetables, dairy products (milk, eggs, butter), and bread and pastries on Monday, November 22. The holiday meal donations received covered the cost of traditional Thanksgiving dinner items which included turkey breasts, stuffing, gravy, canned yams, the fixings for a green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, and sparkling apple cider. The meal would not have been complete without the 1,000 rolls provided by Bally’s Lake Tahoe Casino Resort and an assortment of 180 pumpkin/apple/pecan pies donated by Smart & Final….read more

Submitted by paula on Sun, 11/07/2021 – 6:15pm

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Bread & Broth is once again doing something different for Thanksgiving and Christmas this year and is seeking donations from the community to make it happen.

Traditionally, Bread & Broth has sponsored a hot, nutritious meal for about 250 people over the Thanksgiving holiday. Last year, due to COVID-19 restrictions, Bread & Broth provided a “Thanksgiving Meal Giveaway” and gave bags of food instead of the hot meal.

This practice will continue this year as well.

The “Thanksgiving Meal Giveaway” will be distributed from 3:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. on Monday, November 22 at St. Theresa Grace Hall.

These bags of groceries will contain a total Thanksgiving dinner, including a turkey breast, yams, stuffing, cranberry sauce, green beans, gravy, cider, rolls, and pie.

These Thanksgiving meal items will be provided for guests along with the regular food bags given out each Monday and Friday. Special bags of non-cook Thanksgiving food items will also be provided to those without cooking capabilities.

In addition, Bread & Broth will be offering a Christmas Meal Giveaway on Monday, December 20 from 3:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. at Grace Hall. The Christmas meal will include a ham, pineapples, scalloped potatoes, and other typical holiday meal items….Read more     

Bread & Broth 4 Kids

Submitted by paula on Mon, 10/11/2021 – 1:03pm

Bread & Broth is extremely grateful to have been awarded a Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation Grant designed to provide financial resources to continue the organization’s efforts to respond to the food insecurity created by the COVID-19 crisis. The Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation is a non-profit charity, founded in 1996, dedicated to supporting the Lake Tahoe Region by partnering with donors who are committed to helping local non-profit organizations create a more prosperous regional community.

The $10,000 Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation donation has been used to purchase fresh fruit and vegetables, dairy products, and meat for Bread & Broth’s Monday and Friday COVID-19 Emergency Response food giveaway program as well as securing nutritious, kid-friendly food items for the B&B 4 Kids weekend backpacks. In addition, the funding from Parasol will assist us in our efforts to transition back to our traditional hot meal services, tentatively scheduled for January and February of 2022…..Read more

Submitted by paula on Tue, 01/26/2021 – 5:24pm

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Students receiving weekly food bags from Bread & Broth 4 Kids will be able to pick them up at normal locations on Friday this week, due to the pending blizzard.

Buses from Lake Tahoe Unified School District normally distribute the bags to students with the breakfasts and lunches on Wednesdays, but with the possibility of a snow day and heavy snow, Bread & Broth moved to Friday for safety concerns.

Bags will also be available on Friday at the three school locations that serve the to-go breakfasts and lunches – Tahoe Valley Elementary, Bijou Elementary and South Tahoe Middle School. Should there be another snow day on Friday, this will be rescheduled and a notice placed in South Tahoe Now…read more

Submitted by Paula on Wed, 12/30/2020 – 4:01pm

For Bread & Bread there is so much to be thankful for as the year 2020 comes to an end. The organization would like to acknowledge all of the members of the Lake Tahoe South Shore community who have so generously supported our efforts to feed and help those in need during this holiday season.

Thanks to the overly abundant generosity of donors to our ‘Thanksgiving Meal Giveaway’, there was funding left over for Bread & Broth to host a ‘Christmas Meal Giveaway’ on Monday December 21. In addition to our basic giveaway staples of dairy products, bread/pastries, and fresh fruit and vegetables, Bread & Broth’s Christmas meal included a ham, pineapples, scalloped potatoes, fixings for a green bean casserole, and sparking apple cider.

As a special holiday touch, the giveaway bags included Christmas candies donated by Raley’s at Stateline, Safeway, and Smart & Final. Edgewood Tahoe Resort donated 1,000 freshly baked Christmas cookies (ginger bread men and decorated sugar cookies) prepared by the Resort’s culinary staff. As an extra surprise Christmas gift, $20 Attic Thrift Store vouchers from Barton Hospital were placed in the Christmas meal bag sets to help purchase gifts or necessities…Read more

Submitted by paula on Mon, 11/23/2020 – 11:17pm

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – The volunteers at Bread & Broth packed bags of food for the community Monday, bags full of food for not only a Thanksgiving meal, but for meals through the week.

From 3:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on November 23, almost 200 people picked up bags for their families containing a turkey breast, yams, green beans, rolls, stuffing, pumpkin pie, sparkling apple cider, fruit, vegetables, eggs, milk and much more. Those bags of food went to feed 549 individuals in the South Lake Tahoe community.

For those enjoying the food who didn’t have access to a kitchen, cooked chicken was given to them in their bags along with items that don’t need preparation….Read more