Area Stores Offer Holiday Food Bags for Charity

Recognizing the financial struggles some families endure during the holiday season, two local stores are offering charity food bags for the holidays. Save A Lot and E.W. James & Sons are each donating bags of food to local donation centers for families in need.

McKenzie Save A Lot’s “Bags for a Brighter Holiday” initiative is donating bags of food to United Neighbors. The bags, which cost customers $5.49 to donate, contain potted meat, corn muffin mix, macaroni and cheese, green beans, sweet corn, stuffing mix and vanilla pudding.

To donate a Save A Lot holiday bag, customers need to tell the cashier, who will bag the holiday donations. Customers then need to drop the purchased holiday bag in the donation bin near the store exit.

Similarly, E.W. James & Sons has two holiday meal donation options. These holiday meal bags go to the Carroll County Carl Perkins Center.

For $10, customers may donate jellied cranberry sauce, cornbread stuffing mix, corn muffin mix, homestyle butter mashed potatoes mix, green beans, cut sweet potatoes and macaroni and cheese.

For $20, customers may donate cake mix, buttercream frosting, marshmallows, jellied cranberry sauce, cut sweet potatoes, macaroni and cheese, cornbread stuffing mix, corn muffin mix, cream of mushroom soup, french onion crisps, butter mashed potatoes mix, green beans and corn.

To donate, customers need only inform the cashier while checking out. The cashier will bag the holiday meal and drop it alongside other donated bags near the store entrance.