Look for information about the trainings in A-SPAN's newsletters and other mailings, or call the HBMP Volunteer Coordinator. They assemble the meals and put them into brown paper lunch bags. Cold cuts with cheese, chicken salad, tuna fish salad, and egg salad are all popular. Baked potatoes, hard boiled eggs, and hot dogs on buns make for variety. We suggest individual-sized canned fruit cocktail, pears, or peaches.
Bananas are ok.
You could also bring a basket of apples or other fruit and allow folks to choose. In very cold weather, a hot drink is welcome, but you would have to furnishthermal containers. If your group wishes to do this, please let us know. We then inform DC Central Kitchen not to provide the soup on the days you are scheduled. When you arrive, you can usually see a group of people waiting.