Sixth Years Helping out in the Portland Community

Portland Backpack - Luke

Many children suffer from food insecurity. Luckily, an organization called Portland Backpack helps many of these children by providing meals on the weekends. This is done through the children's schools, but the whole project is volunteer-funded. One of the ways we can help the organization is to drop off pre-packaged sack meals for the kids. These will be delivered to Portland Backpack. In addition, for every sack meal you bring in, you gain an entry ticket to a prize draw for one large Pizza Kat Pizza + 1 PK ice cream of the winner’s choice. The window for bringing in your sack meals is June 1 -3. Please note that there will be two drop boxes: One located at Savior and 15th, inside the entrance to Larch, and one inside the entrance of the school.

Sack Packing Instructions:

Choose two of any of the following:

We prefer not to pack condensed soups.

• Progresso Heart Healthy soup

• Healthy Choice soups 

• Ravioli 

• Amy’s Soups 

• Mac & Cheese boxes 

• Knorr Rice pack with one can of beans 

AND

Two servings of shelf-stable fruit:

• One can of fruit- OR- two fruit cups, two fruit squeeze packs

AND

Two snacks:

• Granola Bars, breakfast bars, small box of raisins, packet of nuts

AND

Two oatmeal packets:

• Single serving oatmeal packs, any flavors

AND

Create your care cards.

Make a care card to tuck into each of your food sacks. Write a message of

encouragement and care and then decorate it to make it fun. 

Pack your food sack(s):

Pack all items into bags. Plastic bags are accepted, but paper sacks or paper bags from the grocery store are preferred. 

When you are done, just send the sack(s) in with your child, and they can deposit them in the collection bins.