The Thompson serves healthy and delicious meals five days a week in the dining room and sends the same meals out to clients in their homes to provide nutritious meals seven days a week.
You’re Invited:
Dining Room Meals:
- Served Monday through Friday at Noon
- Suggested donation for guests ages 60 and over is $5
- For guests under age 60, the meal price is $7
Home Delivered Meals:
- The Thompson is a member of the Meals on Wheels Association of America. Volunteer drivers deliver meals Monday through Friday to senior or disabled community members.
- Suggested donation $5.
- For home delivered meal patrons, we offer a “Meals for Pets” program in partnership with the Lucy MacKenzie Humane Society. Call the Center to learn more.
Please call 802-457-3277 for more information.
Reservations are needed for all meals, please call by 10:30 am. Please indicate allergies or food restrictions in advance. Vegetarian meals are always an option. Please specify when making your reservation.
Share the Harvest
While harvesting your gardens, please consider donating some of your extra vegetables to the Thompson. Even if you have a little extra that you’re afraid will go to waste, we can use it. By sharing your harvest you help provide Chef Andrew with fresh, local, seasonal produce for our daily luncheon and MOW program. Thank you, every little bit helps!
Chef’s Corner August 2022
Many thanks to all who have brought in produce from their gardens! We appreciate being able to incorporate more local, fresh produce into our daily menus. This helps to stretch our budget, too! Thank you!
This month you’ll see a Gyro on the 15th. Gyro, pronounced “GHEE-ro” in Greek comes from the Greek word “gheereezo,” which means to turn. It’s a stacked rotating pile of thinly sliced meat, either lamb, pork, beef, or some combination thereof. As the tightly packed stack roasts upright, the layers meld together and the grill person manning the gyro rotisserie cuts off paper-thin slices, which he or she fixes in a pita wrap with tomatoes, raw red onions, parsley or lettuce, Greek yogurt or tzatziki, and sometimes fried potatoes and a sprinkling of paprika or cayenne pepper. The gyro as we know it more or less today first arrived in Greece in 1922. After WWII, the gyro started to travel west popping up in shops across Europe, in the States, and Australia.
As you’ll have noted on the cover, we’ve planned a themed lunch to compliment the travel program to the virtual tour of the Balearic Islands of the Mediterranean.
Bon Appétit!
Chef’s Corner September 2022
Thank you all for your continued food donations, they are amazing and always welcome!
This month food from Madrid will complement our travel program on the 20th, we will be serving Pollo en Pepitoria (traditional chicken stew with saffron, almonds and sherry). Pepitoria chicken has truly ancient roots: it uses classic Moorish ingredients such as saffron and almonds, and in fact everything on the ingredient list was available in Spain prior to the Spanish colonization of the Americas. As one of the most typical foods in Madrid, you’ll often find pollo en pepitoria as a lunch option.
We’ve had several requests for more soups so have added a few new ones to the menu this month. Back by popular demand are Chicken Parmesan, Ravioli, and Eggplant Parmesan.
Bon Appétit!
Community Based Nutrition Programs:
Woodstock Veggie VanGo
Every second Wednesday of the month at 10 am at the WUHSMS back parking lot (toward the Union Arena)
VeggieVanGo is a FREE FOOD distribution event provided by the VT Foodbank and sponsored by the WCUD School Nutrition Program. We welcome families to pick up and deliver out for other families as well. We have yet to run out of food! ALL ARE WELCOME! Please contact Gretchen Czaja-WCUD School Nutrition Program Director with any questions-gczaja@wcsu.net 802-457-1317, 1123
Vermont Food Bank:
3SquaresVT (3SVT also known as SNAP) can boost your grocery budget! Text VFBSNAP to 85511 or call 855-855-6181 to get signed up for 3SquaresVT.
If you are 60 years or older you may qualify for a monthly box of food through CSFP, which is a federal nutrition program that offers free monthly boxes of food filled with staple food items. Deliveries are made to The Thompson on the 3rd Tuesday of each month and other designated locations throughout Vermont, and you can have a friend or family member pick up your food for you! Signing up is easy, and actually helps ensure that this program can continue to be available for Vermonters who need it.
Find out more by calling the Vermont Foodbank at 1-800-214-4648.