Angel Food. What is Angel Food? Well, sometimes it is easier to describe what something isn’t before you talk about what it is. Angel Food is not a government program. Angel Food is not a club you join. Angel Food is not something you have to qualify for based on income, age, or anything. Angel Food is not something that you have to give your Social Security number or your Driver’s license or buy something every month. Angel Food IS good food at a good price.
Angel Food began several years ago through a church in Georgia. Today it spans most of the United States. It is a ministry designed to help people, all people, with good food at reasonable prices in the name of a loving God. Angel Food provides certain basic boxes each month, such as the Signature Box and the Bountiful Blessing box, along with childrens specialty boxes and several special boxes. The menus change each month. Orders are placed through either the website at www.angelfoodministries.com or a host site, such as Alamo Heights Baptist Church in Port Lavaca. Payment is made at the time of purchase, either by cash, credit/debit, or Lone Star card. The food arrives pre-boxed, generally on the last Saturday of the month (distribution location is the Calhoun County Fairgrounds).
Steaks and other meat products always come vacuum sealed and frozen. Vegetable packages come frozen as well, although the Fresh Fruit & Vegetable special boxes come just that way—fresh. A Signature Box, which costs $35, is designed to feed a family of 4 for a week. The same items at a local store would run between $60-70. Some items are store brands and some are name brands, but they are all good food. And the meat and fish is always good quality. Also, the Signature and Bountiful Blessing boxes ($46 for the Bountiful Blessing box) always contain eggs and milk as well as a desert item.
Orders can be placed online at the Angel Food website or through Alamo Heights Baptist Church from the end of one month through the cutoff date for the month in question. For example, for the month of July orders may be placed now through July 21st (online through July 24th). The distribution will take place Saturday, July 30th from 11:30-12noon at the Calhoun County Fairgrounds, either at the Bauer Exhibit Building or the Extension Center.
In these difficult times Angel Food is a great way to supplement your food budget. With everything increasing in price every day there is no better way to put good food on the table and keep some extra money in your pocket than Angel Food. For further information check out the website at www.angelfoodministries.com or the Alamo Heights website at www.ahbcportlavaca.org, or call Alamo Heights Baptist Church at 552-2532. Just ask about Angel Food. You will be glad you did!
The Wesley Nurses will be providing free screenings for blood pressure and blood sugar beginning in July at the Angel Food distribution site.
