DEAR SUN SPOTS: I want to remind everyone of this great idea, Lasagna Love, to help our community members. Now, more than ever, we can participate in this program to spread love, share good food, and bring tender loving care into someone else’s home.  

Being part of “Lasagna Love” is simple. You make and deliver a lasagna or another type of casserole to someone in your community. The Lasagna Love organization makes it easy to sign up for a one-time, monthly, or other delivery schedule. You can change your delivery schedule at any time. 

The website is easy to navigate, and the organization is well run. Coordinators are very responsive. 

There are no requirements for who can request a lasagna. I have delivered one to a neighbor whose mother just passed away. She had her large family coming and felt overwhelmed with cooking for them all. Another person was new to the community, elderly, and needed a little TLC during her first long, cold winter. 

I currently make and deliver one lasagna a month. You buy the supplies and the lasagna can be as simple as you choose to make it. I have met many wonderful people through this program. The web site is https://lasagnalove.org/  — No name, no town

ANSWER: Lasagna Love is an international movement started in 2020 by mama Rhiannon Menn. Prompted by the COVID-related struggles of families in her community and her own feeling of helplessness, she founded Lasagna Love. A platform that connects neighbors for home-cooked meal delivery, Lasagna Love has transformed into a movement of kindness, impacting thousands of volunteers and recipient families each week. 

If you wish to request a lasagna, go to: https://lasagnalove.org/request/. 

If you want to make and donate lasagnas, go to the website and sign up. You’ll be put in touch with your local Lasagna Love leader. You’ll make an account through the portal https://lasagnalove.org/request/ and can then sign up for just one lasagna, or prep one as often as you like. 

Besides preparing lasagnas, there are other volunteer opportunities including sponsoring another chef, or simply donating money for ingredients. If you are part of a nonprofit that feeds the community, there are partnership opportunities. Corporations can sponsor the effort as well. 

Of course, if you want to do this on your own or with your nonprofit, you don’t have to go through Lasagna Love. Neighbors helping neighbors certainly is nothing new. I just want to encourage you to connect and share, whatever you have to offer. Conversation, a hug, a batch of cookies … it all can help. Bring your own ideas to the table and let me know how it goes. 

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