Volunteers packed 7,000 Thanksgiving boxes for Kentucky families
Hundreds of volunteers with God's Pantry Food Bank assembled Sharing Thanksgiving boxes in Lexington and London. Each box is meant to feed six to eight people.
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Hundreds of volunteers packed 7,000 Sharing Thanksgiving boxes for God's Pantry Food Bank, WKYT reported on November 7, 2026. The Basket Brigade ran in Lexington and in London. Alex Maddox of the food bank said each box holds the ingredients for a holiday meal and should feed about six to eight people. The boxes go out to families in the coming weeks. Recipients for this round have already been chosen. Maddox said people who still need food and are not on the list can contact the food bank.
Maddox also cited Feeding America figures for the 50 counties the pantry serves: food insecurity there rose a little over 12 percent in the latest data, and more than 314,000 neighbors in central and eastern Kentucky are unsure where their next meal will come from. The news in this story is the 7,000 boxes packed for this holiday program, not a claim that those county numbers have fallen.
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Volunteers for God's Pantry Food Bank packed Thanksgiving boxes for Kentucky families. WKYT reported on November 7, 2026, that hundreds of people in Lexington and London built 7,000 boxes. Each box holds ingredients, the foods a family cooks with, for a meal that should feed about six to eight people. The boxes will be delivered in the coming weeks to families already chosen. Anyone still needing help can call the food bank. The 7,000 is the number packed for this holiday program, not every meal the pantry will serve this year.
- What is in a meal box if it is ingredients, not a dinner that is already cooked?
- Why pack the boxes weeks before Thanksgiving?
- What is one job a class could do for a food drive that is already planned?
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