Erie Community Food Bank

🐪🐪Hey Erie! Happy Hump Day! 🐪🐪

Wow! It's June already and Summer is kicking off!

We'll be open tomorrow, Thursday June 4th from 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM and 5:30-7:30 PM.

We are starting to see some space on our shelves and can use any of the following items:

✅ Gluten Free Items (Flour, Crackers, Pasta & Mac-N-Cheese)
✅ Cereal (Anything but Cheerios)
✅ Dry Beans - Whole, uncooked (All types)
✅ Canned Meat - SPAM
✅ Hamburger Helper / Tuna Helper
✅ Strawberry Jelly
✅ Canned Veggies - Peas, Spinach, Carrots, Lima Beans, Asparagus (Please NO green beans or corn!)
✅ Canned Fruit - Applesauce and Pineapple
✅ Syrup & Pancake Mix
✅ Boxed Minute Rice (White & Brown)
✅ Brown Rice (uncooked)
✅ Small Cooking Oil
✅ Sugar
✅ Crackers
✅ Granola Bars & Fruit Bars
✅ Rolled Oats & Quick Oats (in canisters)
✅ Muffin Mix

Toiletries
✅ Shampoo + Conditioner
✅ Deodorant

As a reminder our address is 635 Pierce Street (but we are located in the alley behind Echo Brewing and Pizzeria and the Erie Chamber.

THANK YOU!

🙏🥰😘

Sally Heldman

🐪🐪 Happy Hump Day, Erie! 🐪🐪

Can you believe we're almost done with the first quarter of 2026?!

We'll be open tomorrow, Thursday April 30th from 10:00-12:00 PM (Come see me, Sally Heldman and Robin K!) and 5:30-7:30 PM (w/ Karen K)

Here's a list of items we can use.

✅ Hamburger Helper / Tuna Helper
✅ Gluten Free Items (Flour & Mac-N-Cheese)
✅ Strawberry Jelly
✅ Syrup
✅ Boxed Minute Rice (White & Brown)
✅ Small Cooking Oil
✅ Sugar
✅ Cereal (Not Cheerios)
✅ Crackers
✅ Granola Bars & Fruit Bars
✅ Rolled Oats & Quick Oats (in canisters)
✅ Muffin Mix
✅ Canned Fruit - Mandarin Oranges, Applesauce and Pineapple)
✅ Canned Veggies - Peas, Spinach, Carrots, Lima Beans, Asparagus (Please NO green beans or corn!)
✅ Dry Beans - Whole, uncooked (All types)
✅ Canned Meat - SPAM

Toiltetries
✅ Shampoo + Conditioner
✅ Deodorant

Our address is 635 Pierce Street (but located in the alley behind Echo Brewing and Pizzeria and the Erie Chamber.

THANK YOU!

🙏🥰😘

Sally Heldman

Hey Erie!

Here is a list of items we can use:

✅ Hamburger Helper
✅ Gluten Free Items (Flour & Mac-N-Cheese)
✅ Syrup
✅ Strawberry Jelly
✅ Small Cooking Oil
✅ Sugar
✅ Cereal (Not Cheerios)
✅ Crackers
✅ Granola Bars, Cereal Bars & Fruit Bars
✅ Rolled Oats & Quick Oats (in canisters)
✅ Muffin Mix
✅ Canned Fruit - Mandarin Oranges, Applesauce and Pineapple)
✅ Canned Veggies - Spinach, Peas, Carrots, Lima Beans, Asparagus, Potatoes, Beets
✅ Dry Beans - Whole, uncooked (All types)
✅ Canned Meat - SPAM
✅ Shampoo + Conditioner
✅ Deodorant

❌Please NO canned green beans, corn, canned black beans or chicken noodle soup!❌

We’re open Today April 23rd from 10:00-12:00 and 5:30-7:30 PM. If you have questions, or need to arrange a special drop off day/time, please do not hesitate to reach out!
THANK YOU!
-Sally Heldman

Hey Erie and Happy Spring!

Our shelves are finally starting to clear out a little bit and we're starting to need some things:

✅ Gluten Free Items (Flour & Mac-N-Cheese)
✅ Strawberry Jelly
✅ Boxed Minute Rice (White & Brown)
✅ Small Cooking Oil
✅ Sugar
✅ Cereal (Not Cheerios)
✅ Crackers
✅ Granola Bars, Cereal Bars & Fruit Bars
✅ Syrup + Pancake Mix
✅ Rolled Oats & Quick Oats (in canisters)
✅ Hamburger Helper
✅ Muffin Mix
✅ Canned Fruit - Mandarin Oranges, Applesauce and Pineapple)
✅ Canned Veggies - Spinach, Carrots, Lima Beans, Asparagus
✅ Dry Beans - Whole, uncooked (All types)
✅ Canned Meat - SPAM
✅ Shampoo + Conditioner
✅ Deodorant
❌Please NO canned green beans, corn, canned black beans or chicken noodle soup!❌

We’re open Today April 9th, 2026 from 10:00-12:00 and 5:30-7:30 PM and again THIS Saturday April 11th (2nd Saturday of the month) from 9:00-11:00 AM.

If you have questions, or need to arrange a special drop off day/time, please do not hesitate to reach out!

THANK YOU!

-Sally Heldman

🥰❤🥰 Big shout out and THANK YOU to the Latitude neighborhood in Vista Ridge for their food bank donations. We even had to tell them to take a break for a little while after the holidays when we were inundated with donations!

We still have plenty of food stocked to the ceiling, but there are a few items we're running low on, IF you're at the store and think about it:

1. Long Pasta --spaghetti, fettuccine, angel hair, etc.
2. Boxed Minute Rice (White & Brown)
3. DRIED Beans & Legumes -- All types -- black, pinto, garbanzo, lentils, white beans, etc.
4. Gluten Free Flour
5. Gluten Free Mac-n-Cheese
6. Canned Veggies: Spinach, Carrots, Lima Beans, Beets, Asperagus
7. Strawberry Jelly
8. Canned Lentils
9. SPAM

We'll be open tomorrow, Thursday 3/19 from 10:00-12:00 and 5:30-7:30.

*We're located at 635 Pierce St. (in the alley behind Echo Brewing and Pizzeria).

THANK YOU ERIE!

XOXO

-Sally Heldman

We gratefully accept donations, but we do request that contributors refrain from dropping them off during our closed hours. Also, please note that expired canned goods cannot be utilized. 🙏🏼😘🥵

Hey Erie!

We are starting to see a *few* empty spots on our shelves, so IF you're at the store and think about it, we do have a few things we could use at this time:

1. Boxed Minute Rice (both White & Brown)
2. Canned Spinach and Canned Carrots
3. Strawberry Jelly
4. SPAM
5. Canned Lentils, Chili Beans (not Chili) and Baked Beans
6. Canned Pineapple, Mandarin Oranges and Apple Sauce
7. Spaghetti Sauce

Don’t forget that King Soopers is donating $1 to us for every reusable bag purchased!

We are located in the alley behind Echo Brewing at 635 Pierce St. Erie CO and we're open Thursdays 10:00-12:00 and 5:30-7:30 and the second Saturday of the month 9:00-11:00.

THANK YOU!

XOXO

Sally Heldman

Super big THANK YOU to all the staff, students and families (and Eddie the Eagle) at Soaring Heights for their very generous “spread the love” food drive! We are so grateful!

Hey Erie!

It's been a minute since I've posted about most needed items, (since we are literally stocked to the ceiling with with so many donations from the many food drives in November & December!).

However....IF you're at the store and think about it, we do have a few things we could use at this time:

1. Boxed Minute Rice (both White & Brown)
2. Strawberry Jelly
3. Canned Spinach
4. Canned Lentils
5. Crackers (all types)

As a reminder, we're located in the alley behind Echo Brewing and Pizzeria at 635 Pierce St. Erie CO and we're open Thursdays 10:00-12:00 and 5:30-7:30 and the second Saturday of the month 9:00-11:00.

THANK YOU!

-Sally Heldman

🩷❤️💕💓💗Hey Erie, Happy February! 💗💓💕❤️🩷

It's time to spread the love! The Erie Community Food Bank has been selected as a beneficiary of the King Soopers Fight Hunger bag program!

Purchase a reuseable bag for $2.50 at the King Soopers (Highway 7 in Erie), and we'll receive $1 for the Erie Community Food Bank!