Raise your hand if you love super easy family meal ideas. 🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️ If you can’t tell through the screen, I have two hands aggressively held high in the air. Some days, I feel like cooking dinner is the bane of my existence.

On Friday, February 27th, Kennett Area Community Service (KACS) has your back with a souper 🍲 plan that includes a simple salad and a starchy roll. It’s time for their annual Empty Bowls fundraising event.

Gather round the table and bring plenty of friends. Share a meal that raises money to help feed our neighbors who struggle to afford to put food on their own tables. In its 15th year, the Empty Bowls event raises tens of thousands of dollars for our neighbors in need. It’s a great cause, and.. bonus… you get to let someone else do the cooking and the dishes! 🍽️

How does Empty Bowls work?

There are three options to share this special meal. KACS serves lunch and dinner and offers takeout to those who prefer to eat at their own kitchen table. They have a variety of amazing soups and fresh bread from local restaurants. Choose from soups like carrot-ginger, mushroom, and chicken from Talula’s Table, Cafe Emis, Naked Olive, Sweet Amelia’s, and Chef Michael.

All attendees also receive one of many handmade pottery bowls created by a variety of local community groups, including local high school students. Each bowl is unique, and you can choose your favorite. Better yet, make attendance at KACS Empty Bowls an annual affair and start a pottery bowl collection!

The event also includes a basket raffle during lunch and dinner. You can buy raffle tickets at the event.

Feeling ambitious? Grab your girlies for a night out. You can definitely hit up a post-game drink in Kennett if you are so inclined.
Feeling generous? Host a table for your ladies who lunch.
Don’t be shy, gentlemen. There’s plenty of space at the table for you and your poker buddies, fly fishing friends, season ticket crew, or that text group where you chat about taxes and the market.

KACS loves you all equally and will definitely accept your donation. 😉

But in all seriousness, demand for KACS’ services has been extremely high and, unfortunately, growing. Your ticket proceeds and donations help our struggling neighbors pay their heating bills in these frigid temperatures, assist them in finding permanent homes after unstable housing situations, and put food on the table when money is tight.

Empty Bowls Logistics

The event takes place at St. Michael Lutheran Church in Unionville, right near Unionville High School. Lunch is served at noon. Dinner is served at 6:00. Take-out orders can be picked up between 3:00 and 5:00 p.m., perfect timing if you’re picking up your kiddos from school and want to stop by to grab dinner on the way home.

✨ For more information and to purchase tickets, head to the KACS website here. Pop in that credit card information to reserve your seats, and you’re golden. ✨

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Handmade pottery bowls for Empty Bowls event

Can’t attend Empty Bowls but want to support?

If you can’t attend, head to the event page to make a donation to help cover the cost of a raffle basket or sign up to be a sponsor. KACS Empty Bowls volunteer committee members fill each raffle basket with items that have been popular in years past to ensure there are plenty of amazing raffle ticket options. Sponsors are the lifeblood of events like this, so don’t pass up the chance to show the community you care if it’s in your personal or business budget.

Have you ever been to the Empty Bowls event before? I’d love to hear about your experience.