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St. Andrew's Food Pantry -Ted's Pantry
- Name: St. Andrew's Food Pantry -Ted's Pantry
- Address: 20 Catlin Street
- City: Meriden, CT 06450
- Phone: 203.237.7451
- Website: http://www.standrewsmeriden.org/
- Contact Email: standrw@sbcglobal.net
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- Description: The Food Pantry provides non-perishable food items donated by parishioners and community partners throughout the year. We also receive monetary donations from outside the parish that allows us to shop for what we need to fill the rest of the bags. The food is stored on site, and distributed on the third Saturday of each month from 10am-11am. Clients receive a standard package of groceries (with a Scripture insert from our Sunday service). We distribute bags of food consisting of cereal, tomato sauce, pasta, rice, beans, tuna, peanut butter, vegetables, fruit, mac and cheese, drinks, and an extra surprise in each bag. The new name, Ted's Pantry, is in honor of our very dedicated and hardworking Ted Coitrone. He and his family worked very hard over the past few years to make our pantry very successful. On Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, turkeys and roasting chickens are distributed along with the bag of groceries. Over 4,000 bags of groceries have been distributed to our neighbors since 2006.