11/05/2025
🚨Help Needed: Pantry Restock for Emergency Food Boxes. HUNGER CAN’T WAIT!
ASA Now has been busy serving DCS kinship caregivers with a current DCS Placement STATEWIDE, impacted by SNAP—and our shelves are now bare of core items we pack into each box. If you’re at the store (or have a few extras at home), please donate the items below. Sizes matter so boxes stay consistent.
🧺 Needed Now - photos of items purchase are provided on this post along with recipes.
Breakfast
• Honey Nut Cheerios — 10.8 oz
• Instant Oatmeal — box of 10 packets
• Breakfast Bars — Fruit & Grain or Granola, 8 ct (≈10.4 oz)
• Applesauce Cups — 6 ct (4 oz each)
Proteins & Meals
• Peanut Butter — 16 oz
• Grape Jelly — 30 oz
• Mac & Cheese — 2 boxes (7.25 oz each)
• Ramen — 6 packs
• Pasta Sauce — 24 oz
• Canned Chicken — two 10 oz cans
• Rice — 1 lb bag
• Pinto or Black Beans (dry) — 1 lb bag
• Great Northern Beans — 2 cans
• Chicken Noodle Soup — 4 cans (10.5 oz each)
• Chicken Bouillon — 4 cubes (vegetable bouillon available upon request)
• Tomato Salsa (mild) — 14.5 oz can or 15 oz jar
• Herdez Green Salsa (mild) — 7 oz can (if available)
Snacks & Dairy
• Pretzels — 16 oz bag
• Cheddar Crackers — 12.4 oz box
• Shelf-Stable 2% Milk — two 1-liter cartons (dairy-free upon request: oat or almond milk)
🍞 Bread is covered—ASA Now will purchase the loaves.
🚫 Please skip for now (we’re stocked): spaghetti pasta, tuna, and canned vegetables (corn, carrots, green beans).
📍 Deliver to: ASA Now | Jacob’s Mission Community Center, 7830 E. University Dr., Mesa, AZ 85207 (Sossan and University, immediately east of the fire station)
📞 Questions or curbside drop-off? Call 623-428-1592.
Prefer to ship? You can place a grocery delivery to Jacob’s Mission, or donate directly at asanow.org.
Thank you for helping us keep kids fed and families supported. This year alone you’ve helped us serve over 4,500 children.💛
STATEWIDE HELP FOR DCS KINSHIP CAREGIVERS (ALL 15 AZ COUNTIES)
🌟 If you’re a kinship or guardianship caregiver with a child in DCS care anywhere in Arizona, impacted by SNAP, ASA Now can help statewide.
What we provide
• 📦 Emergency Food Boxes that feed a family of 4 for 3–4 days (larger households receive additional boxes)
• 🍽️ Easy recipes matched to the box
• 💵 “Meals under $5” ideas
• ☎️ Connections to 2-1-1 and other resources
How to get help—statewide
• 🚗 Pick up in Mesa, or
• 📨 If transportation is a barrier, we can mail a grocery gift card or arrange grocery delivery anywhere in Arizona.
• ⏰ ASA Now fills immediate-needs orders statewide, 24/7.
📍 Pick-Up Location (optional):
ASA Now | Jacob’s Mission Community Center
7830 E. University Dr., Mesa, AZ 85207
(623) 428-1592
🔗 Request an Emergency Food Box:
https://www.asanow.org/immediate-needs-orders---food---clothing.html
Please share so caregivers across Arizona know support is available. 💙
More help: asanow.org
