Lunch Bunch Week 8 Los Angeles Edition

Lunch Bunch Week 8:

This week there was a new sandwich bread, new partner, new items in the lunch, but the same quest. Eyal and I were taking care of Los angles while Ana was working on Lunch Bunch in Fresno with Ara and their friend.

The day started great, I picked up our groceries from Food For Less and supplies from a 99 Plus store.



I became discouraged at the grocery store because all of the bread was so thinly sliced. I decided on soft delicious smelling bread rolls. Since we were only preparing 24 lunches. I thought this was a great time to test out new bread options.

Once at Eyal’s apartment we started to set up an assembly line of items to make little necessity kits. The necessity kits included: Spoons, Chap sticks, Toothpick/floss, safety pins, q-tips and small towels.

Once we had the kits done we cleaned and disinfected the kitchen in order to start slicing, chopping for the sandwich production. Chopping all the veggies at once saves a ton of time.

Once you have made so many sandwiches before it is easy to guesstimate how many tomatoes, cucumbers and onions need to be sliced.

Setting the veggies in a divided container is great for easy grabbing access.

Now it was time to slice and mustard the breads. These rolls were thick, but soft and are easy to chew. I didn’t have to worry about this bread crumbling, getting soggy or drying out.

Here is a quick sandwich assembly video.

So inside each Lunch Bunch bag there was: a sandwich, apple juice, crackers, grapes, banana, gelatin cup, cookie, towel and a necessity kit. (Some bags did not have two fruits).

Now that the packing was done it was time to hand out the meals, this is easily the best part of Lunch Bunch!

It was close to 7 when we left to Los Feliz, we had to visit some very important people. It was great to show Eyal what we do each week and for him to get a chance to meet some new favorite people in my life.

We also went to the blanket community, a home made out of blankets constructed by a group.

The couple we usually see wasn’t there but a lovely person was there to take lunches for everyone.

Now it was time to head to downtown to give out the rest of the meals.

The rest of the night went smoothly, everyone was very accepting. Lunch Bunch Week 8 was amazing, just like always! One disturbing thing is that each time I venture to skid row I see less and less people. Scary.

Thank you from Lunch Bunch for reading, our blogs and thank you Eyal for being our newest Lunch Bunch person.