Campus Kitchen at Saint Louis University

Volunteer Opportunities Available Now

As the semester begins, we are seeking volunteers for a variety of jobs.  We need people to cook, deliver, package, pick up food from stores, organize  donations, assist in developing nutrition education programming, and a number of other exciting (and okay, a few not so exciting) tasks.  If you have volunteered before, just login to the volunteer information center (under the volunteer tab) and sign up for shifts.  If you are a first time volunteer, you will have to fill out a volunteer application before coming for the first time (also under the volunteer tab.)

If you are a volunteer who has been on shifts before but is interested in getting involved in new ways, please let us know.  We’d love to have you on the team. Contact us at ckslu@campuskitchens.org.

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TURKEYPALOOZA-Help bring a others a happy holiday!

As thanksgiving approaches, we have the chance to express our gratitude by giving to those who might not otherwise have a chance for a holiday meal.  Campus Kitchens is sponsoring a food drive and “Bring Your Turkey to Work Day” the week of November 14th-20th.  During this week we hope to collect hundreds of pounds of turkey and other Thanksgiving fixings to distribute.  We will also run extra cooking shifts to prepare the special holiday meals.  If you would like to donate food, please see the list below.  We will try to collect all turkeys by November 15th, but we will continue to collect other grocery items all week long.  We will also have special cooking shifts on November 18th, 19th and 20th, and grocery basket delivery shifts on November 21st and 22nd.  Contact the kitchen 314-977-3881 if you are interested in being a part of the effort.

Grocery Items:

Whole turkeys (frozen or thawed), fully cooked turkey breasts, canned cranberry sauce, frozen or refrigerated pie crust, evaporated milk, fresh potatoes, canned sweet potatoes, onions, chicken stock or broth, green beans, cream of mushroom soup, French’s fried onions, refrigerated rolls, fresh celery, stuffing mix, butter, rice, herbs (sage, thyme, rosemary), flour, brown sugar, white sugar, paper muffin cups, turkey brining kits, marshmallows, foil, cooking oil.

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National Justice Conference

The Campus Kitchen at Saint Louis University invites you to a justice and service conference.  Speakers include our founder Robert Egger, Fr. Greg Boyle S.J. bestselling author of “Tattoos on the Heart”, Gary Oppenheimer from Ample Harvest, Dr. Keane director of the new SLU Sustainability center, and nationally known local chefs Kevin Nashan of Sidney Street Cafe and Gerard Craft of Niche.

Other presenters include representatives from Food not Bombs, Numana, Child Hunger Corps, Food Corps, Truck Farm, and Local Harvest Market. Saturday evening will feature a chili cook-off and a fair trade market.

Cost is $40 or $20 for SLU and Wash U students.  Questions?  Call 977-3881 Register online:  http://campuskitchensconference.charityhappenings.org/

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CKSLU Gets New Home on Campus

The Campus Kitchen at Saint Louis University has moved!  After ten wonderful years in the Demattias Hall kitchen, we now make our home in Reinert Hall.  In addition to being a  roomier, more modernized space, we are now within easy walking distance of two of our main community partners: Grandview Tower and Council Towers apartment buildings, where we serve around 75 clients multiple times per week.

We hope for decades more of student-led hunger relief from this new space.  Thank you to Saint Louis University for their continued hospitality.

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Thanks for another great year!

Thanks to our amazing volunteers who spent another year fighting hunger on the ground level.  Since school began in August, they put it 3656 hours of service, recovered 32,445 pounds of food, and served 19,927 meals. Here’s wishing our volunteers a wonderful summer break and thanks for a job well done.

We would also like to recognize our graduating senior LT shift leaders .  Here’s to Elizabeth, Carley, Ben, Annie, Ali, Samiksha and Katie.  Good luck– we will miss you.

For those who will still be here over the summer, please contact the kitchen directly if you are interested in volunteering ckslu@campuskitchens.org or 314-977-3881.  The summer schedule is slightly different so please let us know if you plan on coming in.

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CKSLU on the Move–Come to our Info Night

The kitchen is moving to a new home on campus!  Come find out more and learn how you can be more involved next semester.

Monday April 18th, 6-7 pm in Ritter 119.

This is for current volunteers who want to find out about what it takes to become a shift leader on our Leadership Team, or new volunteers that have never stepped foot in the kitchen and want to learn more.  All are welcome.  (Of course there will be food, because food is what we are all about.)

Questions? Contact x 3881 or ckslu@campuskitchens.org

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Hunger Discussion

Join us at an Interfaith Alliance, “Better Together” campaign event. 

Round Table Discussion Feb. 28th, BSC 352, 7 pm.

The poem below was written by an IFA member Amenah Arther after she spent time doing campus kitchen deliveries.

“Campus Kitchen”

by Amenah Arther

I told him to press 3 as/I stepped into the elevator/Styrofoam take out box in one hand/geriatric client name labels in the other./And when the doors opened/stench penetrated through my nostrils/and I wondered that it didn’t bother them/who lived in the rooms on that floor./I passed blood stained stairwells and smoky lounge areas/and when apartment doors opened I sensed that they/didn’t want to hear my overly pretentious greetings./But some did./ Some wanted to speak about their life stories/made mundane by lack of contact with social systems/their entertainment limited to television and old-fashioned radios./Some wanted heirs to pass on their antique furniture to/and others wanted to share pictures of their now deceased loved ones./My ears were there, but my heart was somewhere else/sinking under a shroud of guilt and sadness and frustration/and it wasn’t pity, but general concern/for the elderly clients being force fed by visiting nurses./And some didn’t open their doors when we screeched “Campus Kitchens”/so we didn’t deliver them their meals and I wonder/if they went hungry that night/as my fasting stomach twisted into knots./Where was I these past two years when my fellow/brethren were starving but two blocks away?

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Heart and Soul-Let’s show CKSLU clients some love

In celebration of Valentine’s Day and February (Heart Health Month) we are bringing heart healthy versions of soul food favorites to all Campus Kitchen clients between February 13th-17th.  Featured selections include: Red beans and rice, Low fat mac and cheese, peach cobbler, greens, and oven-fried chicken. We will also give all clients copies of the re-made soul food recipes, along with a valentine and a flyer of heart health tips.  Give your valentine the gift of generosity–sponsor one heart and soul meal in his or her name for $5.  

http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/CKSLU/heartandsoul

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Spring Semester Volunteers

We are seeking volunteers for the spring semester.  You can sign up to come one time (by yourself or with a group) or you can make it a regular occurrence throughout the semester.  Volunteers work cooking, packaging, delivery, or food resourcing shifts. Click the volunteer tab on this site or call the kitchen 977-3881 for more information.

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TURKEYPALOOZA!

November 12th -23rd is Turkeypalooza, the annual holiday meal event at CKSLU. During Turkeypalooza we provide over 600 holiday meals and grocery bags for needy families in the St. Louis Area.

Please see shifts highlighted in red for the times that volunteers are still needed.

Friday 11/12:”Bring Your Turkey To Work Day”  Please call the kitchen at 7-3881 if you can take a shift this friday.

Monday 11/15-11/18, 9-4 daily : .

Wednesday 11/17:

The Speak-In will kick-off the Better Together Campaign, a campus-wide social justice campaign that brings together people of all faiths and traditions to address the social justice issue of “food justice” throughout the school year. It will feature artistic performances, personal speeches, and a dialogue addressing why we engage in service and how our combined efforts can make an effort to reduce food disparity in our community.

Friday 11/19:

Saturday 11/20:

Sunday 11/21:

Monday 11/22:

Tuesday 11/23:

Please contact Jenny at 314-977-3881 or ckslu@campuskitchens.org to donate or volunteer.

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