Cooking for 80

Can you imagine cooking a lunch or dinner for 80 people? Rolling up the sleeves, chucking on the apron and then looking around your kitchen wondering where on earth to start. Sounds like a lot of hard work! 

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For Under the Stars Tauranga, a charity who supports the homeless and needy in their community through meals, showers and kindness, this is their reality twice a week. Volunteers cook for 80—100 people, making sure there’s enough to go ‘round.

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Thankfully they’ve recently been able to rely more and more on the support of generous businesses who pay-forward food to be served up at the weekly lunches and dinners.

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Elizabeth Cafe and Larder is one of those businesses. Thanks to the generosity of their customers paying-it-forward and their corporate partner S&L Land Specialists (another generous Tauranga-based business), they provided 20 servings of food to Under the Stars for a Thursday lunch.

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What a relief for the volunteers to have a large portion of their cooking taken care of.

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If you’d like to be part of this generosity, head to Elizabeth Cafe for their delicious food and coffee (we recommend their Lizzie Waffles, YUM) and add a small pay-it-forward on top of your bill. Every little bit adds up to provide meals for our locals who need them most.

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