Healthy Shelves at Home

Planning meals at home has become the norm in the time of COVID-19. Our Healthy Shelves Shopping List features items that are both shelf-stable and nutritious, a great basis for a well-stocked pantry that can help you limit your trips to the grocery store. Consider picking up a few extra items and donating them to…

Diabetes-Friendly Pantry Rx

What is the Diabetes-Friendly Pantry Rx? This tool was designed for dietitians, Certified Diabetes Educators (CDE) and healthcare providers to personalize as they counsel their food-insecure patients with diabetes. People can take this pocket-sized card with them to the food pantry or grocery store using the list to guide them in healthful food recommendations. Download…

2020 Food Drive Shopping List

Food pantries need donations all year long. Use our 2020 Food Drive Donation List to donate healthy foods to those in need.

Good Shepherd Lutheran Pioneers Make Soup Kits

The Good Shepherd Lutheran Pioneers made Healthy Shelves soup kits at church to donate to the Kewaskum Community Food Pantry. Each kit includes a Healthy Shelves recipe and the ingredients to make it. Thank you, Pioneers, for serving your neighbors in need! You can donate ingredients for a Healthy Shelves recipe to YOUR local food pantry!…

Stamp Out Hunger on May 11

“Stamp Out Hunger” by setting out non-perishable food donations for your mail carrier to pick up  on Saturday May 11, 2019. Use this shopping list for healthy donation ideas. Simply set out your food donations well before your mail carrier’s normal pick-up time. He or she will be collecting food donations while delivering and collecting mail as usual.

2019 Food Drive Donation Shopping List

Food pantries need donations all year long. Use our 2019 Food Drive Donation List to donate healthy foods to those in need.                                

Milwaukee Business Journal Event

On December 6, 2018, Healthy Shelves attended the Milwaukee Business Journal event at Mount Mary University. Mount Mary interns provided taste tests of Healthy Shelves recipes, collected food items for donation, and played a Spin the Wheel game to educate attendees about chronic disease among people relying on food pantries. Game players won a spice…

NEW Holiday Spice Donation Lists

Shopping for the holidays? Consider including your local food pantry on your gift list. In addition to donating healthy foods from our Healthy Shelves Shopping List, use these Holiday Spice Shopping Lists to donate seasonings, spices, and sauces. Most items on this list are sodium-free or low in sodium–  while still packing a flavorful punch! Make the holidays…

Wisconsin Lions Foundation

Healthy Shelves is proud to partner with the Wisconsin Lions Foundation to improve diabetes awareness during the month of November. One in three food pantry visitors are diabetic or have family members with diabetes. Prevention or management of diabetes can be very difficult when healthy food choices are limited. Support your community by donating diabetes-friendly food items to…

NEW Customizable Donation List

Hosting a food drive? Healthy Shelves is excited to reveal a NEW customizable donation list to assist your efforts in providing healthful food for those in need.

City of Franklin Food Drive

City of Franklin Employee Food Drive 2018 Healthy Shelves collaborated with the City of Franklin Health Department and City of Franklin employees to conduct a Healthy Shelves food drives in January 2017 and 2018. All proceeds were donated to Feeding Franklin, a network of local food pantries. The 2018 City of Franklin Employee Food Drive resulted in 963…

Froedtert Health Food Drive

Froedtert Hospital employees conducted a Healthy Shelves food drive in the spring of 2017.  Food was donated to the Menomonee Falls Food Pantry and Sussex Food Pantry.