Free Soup for Everyone
Souper Sunday provides free soup, and other foods, to anyone for any reason for free. The concept of Souper Sunday is simple: making healthy delicious meals for your community, for free, will really do something.
There are countless situations where community members can benefit from a free meal. Consider a single parent who is exhausted after a long day, or a neighbor recovering from sickness or injury, artists, and musicians trying to improve the creative efficacy of our community, students trying to better themselves, hard workers that find themselves between jobs, or anyone who could use a healthy delicious free meal. Souper Sunday is for you.
Souper Sunday is free from religion, politics or any ideology. We focus on your inherent value as a human being whatever that means to you. There is no discrimination. You are welcome no matter your country of origin, ethnicity, how you choose to identify, what your skin color is or any of the other things that seem to divide us. As long as you don’t conduct yourself in a hateful, divisive manner you are welcome.
We believe in ‘the sacred circle of giving and receiving’, in which accepting a meal is as important as making a meal. We could not do this if no one showed up. And the acceptance of a meal encourages one to be involved and to contribute ingredients and time thus benefitting other community members and it goes full circle. Neighbor helping neighbor.
Please join us. I guarantee it will improve your life and bring you into the community you deserve.
This is how it works
There is enough money, ingredients and goodwill in our town that no one should go to bed hungry.
This is how it works:
- I post to the Souper Sunday FB group that a meal is available and what the request window is, usually an hour from the time I post.
- You respond to the post with your request. (There are often more requests than meals available, so I can’t guarantee to get you a meal every time, but I do my best).
- I confirm your request by saying “Out there for you in 5“ and then I put your meal out front in the red cooler.
- You must check back to make sure I approved, and pick up your meal by 8:00 PM. (FB notifications are not reliable so you must check back to the post manually). Unless you know 100% you can pick up your mea don’t make a request.
- You enjoy a healthy, delicious free meal.
- I also have frozen soups available most of the time that you can request whenever you need a meal. Just message me through FB and I’ll let you know when you can pick it up.
- Under certain circumstances, one of the group members can deliver soup to you within a reasonable distance. Please message me to make that request and I’ll do my best to get it delivered to you. We cover downtown Olympia and the east side
- Meals are available to anyone who wants or needs them. But if you are food insecure and really need some food I keep boxes of non-perishable ingredients on hand that you can prepare yourself. I can often pair these with meat and/or vegetables that I may have on hand. Again, message me directly and let me know what your situation is.
It’s not my favorite thing to raise money and ask for contributions.
But it is part of what needs to be done to keep the project going. You can donate funds to the east side coop which is currently at zero. There are a few ways to contribute that are listed at the top of the Souper Sunday FB page. I usually have some SS merch you can buy.
