Schaumburg High School charity lunch Friday
Students in Schaumburg High School's Chemistry of Foods and Practices in Entrepreneurship are preparing to host the 11th annual Charity Soup Lunch to benefit the SHS Blessings in a Backpack project and the SHS Magic Closet.
The soup lunch will take place on Friday, Dec. 12, from 10:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.
The event is open to people from other Palatine-Schaumburg Township High School District 211 schools, but not the general public. Attendees are asked to donate five or more "approved," nonperishable food items for the Blessings in a Backpack project, or a gift card for clothing and/or household necessities that will be given to the SHS Magic Closet in exchange for a bottomless bowl of soup. The event is located in Room 23.
Selections include cream of chicken with wild rice, French onion, creamy mushroom, pasta e fagioli, Tuscan sausage and potato, split pea, tomato and roasted red pepper, New England clam chowder, broccoli cheese, chipotle sweet potato and turkey tortilla.
There will also be trays of fresh baked dinner rolls, zucchini, focaccia and Italian breads, cookies, lemon bars, pumpkin squares and brownies. Drink selections include iced tea, lemonade and coffee.
In the past 10 years, thousands of items have been donated to Toys-4-Tots (pre-2009), Elgin Community Crisis Center (pre-2013), Blessings in a Backpack and the Magic Closet.
Approximately 225 guests have attended the event in each of the last seven years.
Because of the size of the event and the amount of food to be prepared, the fashion classes are challenged with the task each year to transform the classrooms into a "Winter Wonderland."
For the past six years, the Department of Agriculture has awarded the event a grant that pays for about half of food ingredients purchased. In exchange, students in the Chemistry of Foods classes participate in a unit on small farming and sustainability, as well as study food safety throughout our food chain. Fliers will be displayed to lunch-goers on how they can get involved in the "small food" movement.
For more information, contact Kerry Frost at kfrost@d211.org.