The Ottawa Mission expects to serve 12,000 Thanksgiving meals this week and on Thanksgiving Monday, the largest meal ever served by the organization.
The Ottawa Mission's executive chef Ric Watson and his team will prepare 12,000 meals for Thanksgiving this year. It's a new reality as food prices soar and basic necessities stretch out of reach for many, leaving some who can no longer afford a turkey dinner.
"We plan on serving about 12,000 meals in total," Executive Chief Ric Watson says. "We’re deboning, cooking and serving about 600 turkeys and right now we have about 500 done. We’re hoping to get another 100 donated. There will be about 2,000 pounds of mashed potatoes, 150 gallons of gravy. It’s just astronomical numbers; it’s our biggest meal we’ve ever had in the history of the Mission.
"The people that we’re getting these meals out to and that will come here on Monday to the Mission, they so appreciate it," Watson says. "And we’re talking elderly, we’re talking youth, we’re talking every walk of life people can’t afford to go to the grocery stores and buy a turkey.”
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