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Campus Kitchen

Campus Kitchen 凤凰体育直播 (CKSLU) has been a part of SLU since 2001 and is a student-led volunteer organization dedicated to fighting for food justice in and around our neighborhood.

Students wearing hairnets and gloves work in a line at a kitchen counter.

Campus Kitchen participants have opportunities to investigate and promote various food justice and hunger advocacy initiatives and form meaningful personal relationships with those they serve.


Volunteering Information

For the 2024-2025 academic year, our shifts are as follows:

Sundays Task
9:30 a.m. Food recovery (meet at Trader Joe鈥檚 in Brentwood)*
9:45 a.m. to 11 a.m. Food management
1 to 3 p.m. Cooking
3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Packing
5 to 6 p.m. Baking
Mondays Task
3:30 to 5 p.m. Delivery (no vehicle necessary)
4 to 6 p.m. Cooking
7 to 8 p.m. Packing
Tuesdays Task
3:30 to 5 p.m. Delivery (no vehicle necessary)
Wednesdays Task
3:30 to 5 p.m. Delivery (no vehicle necessary)
4 to 6 p.m. Cooking
7 to 8 p.m. Packing
Thursdays Task
3:30 to 5 p.m. Delivery (no vehicle necessary)

*All shifts take place at Reinert Hall, 303 S. Grand, except for food recovery on Sundays at 9:30 a.m., for which we meet at the loading dock at Trader Joe鈥檚 in Brentwood.


About The Kitchen

Campus Kitchen addresses food justice issues by reducing food waste and providing meals to those who are hungry. Using donated food that would otherwise be wasted, volunteers 鈥 mainly SLU students, staff and faculty 鈥 prepare, package and deliver about 400 meals a week to people who are food insecure. These are men, women, children and seniors who live independently in homes across the street from our SLU campus, as well as those who live in nearby emergency shelters and transitional housing. In addition to meals, we provide our excess fresh produce to various non-profit organizations. The efforts of CKSLU feed about 600 individuals each week.

Our food recovery efforts recover about 1,000 pounds of food weekly from our community partner, Trader Joe鈥檚. This food would be thrown away as unsellable products for various reasons (e.g. a smashed box top, one bad apple in a five-pound bag, too close to the 鈥渂est by鈥 date). We also partner with DineSLU to recover additional food and work together to reduce food waste.

Campus Kitchen 凤凰体育直播 also provides an environment for community-based learning and community building. Students have opportunities to investigate and promote various food justice and hunger advocacy initiatives and form meaningful personal relationships with those they serve. Once a month, we develop and participate in a Beyond the Meals program, which may be anything from a game night to a yoga class, as an empowering way of fostering these relationships. Hunger is not simply an empty stomach; it is often accompanied by isolation and loneliness. CKSLU volunteers strive to deliver companionship and conversation in addition to meals.