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Est. 11/2020. It all started with a bag of burgers... now we serve approximately 80 people each week.

11/03/2025

Yesterday's meal for our differently sheltered friends included
Salmon cakes
French bread pizza
Pierogi with smoked kielbasa and green onion
Chicken fried rice
Beef stroganoff with noodles
Venison spaghetti
Buffalo chicken casserole
Ham
Potato casserole
Green bean casserole
Fresh green beans with soy sauce and garlic
Mac and cheese
Ramen with teriyaki pork and sweet corn
Broccoli alfredo
Ruben mac and cheese
Chili
Chili mac
Hot dogs
Peach French toast bagel bake
French toast casserole
Sausage and fried potatoes with scrambled eggs
Cottage pie
Curry Chicken
Beans and weenies
Sandwiches, snacks, desserts and drinks and probably some more things I forgot.

Thank you Country Gourmet at the Market and Bob for picking up, Panera and whoever picked up from them, Bethany Church of the Nazarene for your kitchen, and everyone who volunteered and donated this past week. We have had to step up our food game because we're serving more people than we ever have. It's super helpful when someone donates a prepared dish!

Thank you to Rachel, Steve, Keith, and Trish for bringing prepared dishes. Several others brought ingredients and Halloween candy. Thank you to Marjorie for bringing 100 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches every first Sunday of the month made by Charlton UMC. I wish I could list everyone's name who contributes to this project and makes this possible!

We might go through 3 or 4 cases of bottled water every week along with coffee, creamers, sugar and other sweeteners, powdered drink mixes, individual snacks, canned and bottled drinks... Donation ideas if anyone is so inclined!

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11/02/2025

Getting ready for tomorrow.

11/01/2025

Yes, we will take your leftover Halloween candy! Donation drop off address is in our profile picture. Donations can be dropped off 24/7. 🤠🥸🤡👽🎃🍭🍬🍫

10/31/2025

It's Friday, volunteers. Don't forget to check in for Sunday.
Sunday's menu is going to include
Scrambled eggs and fried potatoes with ham and sausage
Chili and cornbread
Pierogi and kielbasa
Spaghetti with venison sauce
Buffalo chicken casserole
Chicken curry with peas
Chicken fried rice
Salisbury steaks with rice
Beef stroganoff and noodles
Hot dogs
Pork and ramen with homemade teriyaki sauce
Creamed cucumbers
Bagel bake with peaches
Green bean casserole
Salmon cakes
In addition to dishes brought by others.
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10/27/2025

Sunday's meal for our friends included
Cornflake crusted chicken with hot honey
Pierogi with smoked kielbasa and green onion
Baked beans
Black beans with cheese and green onion and spam
Collard greens
Marinated chicken breast
Baked spaghetti
Spinach salad
Coleslaw
German pasta salad
Pork and sauerkraut with hot dogs and mashed potatoes
Green bean casserole
Other things I can't remember
Sandwiches, snacks and drinks

Thank you, Bethany Church of the Nazarene for your kitchen, Country Gourmet at the Market for your food donation, Panera, those who picked up from both places, and to the donors and volunteers who make this possible.

Sundays can be exhausting! I spend several hours shopping on Saturday and then I go to the church and pull all the ingredients and lay them out. Sunday we start prepping food at 11:00 a.m. We leave to serve at 2:00 to begin serving at around 2:30. We have been leaving the new camp at about 4:00 or 4:15 and then we stop at a halfway house to serve for maybe 20 minutes, probably about a dozen to two dozen guys. And it's back to the church to unload and clean up everything, sweep and mop and take out the trash. Many hands make light work. If you'd like to volunteer, for part of the day or the whole day, we'd love to have you. We serve every Sunday. Send me a message if you have any questions!

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10/23/2025

Sunday's meal for our differently sheltered friends included a nacho bar, a hot dog bar, and a baked potato bar. We also served tuna casserole, fish with rice, jambalaya, baked beans, chickpea salad, sandwiches, wedding cake, snacks and drinks.

Our nacho bar included pico de gallo and an avocado corn salsa with fresh garden grown jalapenos. Our friends could choose from beef or chicken for the nachos and we also had pulled pork for the baked potato bar.

Thank you Country Gourmet at the Market, Bethany Church of the Nazarene, Panera, and everyone who picked up donations and dropped things off at the church and to my volunteers for prepping, cooking, making sandwiches, serving, cleaning up, and giving so much of your time and energy.

Blankets, sleeping bags, and warm clothing are needed.

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10/16/2025

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10/15/2025

Jennie brought us four boxes of potatoes last night and a bunch of quarts of milk. Potatoes are scrubbed and ready to bake for this weekend. ❤️

10/14/2025

Even with food donations, it can cost over $150 each week for groceries. Yesterday, we served more people than we ever have, outside of memorial dinners.

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Donation suggestions:
Cases of water and other drinks
Powdered drink mixes in a can
Canned, fresh or frozen fruit
Canned, fresh or frozen veggies
Butter
Meat
Milk
Cheese
Flour
Individual snacks
Corn muffin mix
Eggs

We are looking at a hot dog, baked potato, and nacho bar this coming Sunday so we need
Big bags of tortilla chips, Doritos, Fritos
Ground beef
Chicken
Lettuce
Nacho cheese
Shredded cheese
Onions yellow or red
Green onions
Avocados
Black beans
Refried beans
Hot dogs (we have lots of buns)
Hot dog chili (we have kraut)

Ed is donating jalapenos.
Eric already made fresh pico de Gallo.
We have sour cream.

Dry and wet dog food and cat food. Sam's Club has 48 lb bags of dog food for $27 and 34 lb bags of cat food for $24.

Donations can be made anytime at the address in our profile picture. For perishable items that need to be refrigerated or frozen, please send me a message and I will arrange a time to meet with you at the church.

We have Venmo ( -Eclipse-Project) and PayPal and the outreach has its own checking account so checks can be made out to The Eclipse Project and sent to
Michon Zalewski
5955a Linglestown Road
Harrisburg PA 17112.

If you'd like to make a cash donation, send me a message or stop by the church kitchen any Sunday between 11 am and 2 pm. Same if you ever want to stop by and see what we do!

10/13/2025

Yesterday's meal for our differently sheltered friends included:
Paella
Alexa's chicken enchiladas
Rachael and Safa's chili
Keith's beans and weens, cheesy crab squash balls, and pancake skewers
Carol's Basque cheesecakes
Beef empanadas
Apple empanadas
Tostones
Arroz con leche
Pizza pasta with pepperoni, mushrooms, onions, and peppers
Salad
Rigatoni with chicken, artichokes and spinach in a cherry tomato garlic sauce
Creamy Chinese buffet seafood casserole
Sonja's fresh garden grown watermelon
Sandwiches, snacks, drinks, other things I can't remember...

Thank you, volunteers - Eric S., Jerry, Sue, Alexa, Ashley, Eric G., Carol, and Bob. Eric S. and I were at the kitchen for six hours Saturday. I'm going to be looking for some kitchen volunteers on Saturday going forward.

Thank you to Bethany Church of the Nazarene for your kitchen, Country Gourmet at the Market and Panera and everyone who picked up from them, and to everyone who donated items this past week.

We are going to have to step up our food game.

I bet we served close to a hundred people just in one location yesterday. Thankfully our second stop only had maybe 15 guys! I was worried we weren't going to have enough food but, loaves and fishes.

Special guests this week were my mommy and step dad! See photos. My mom was a little weepy at all the love! The high point of the day was when Gary, one of our friends, was in line for food and I waved to him and pointed to my mom and said "this is my mommy!" He said "hold up! I'm going to be right over and I'm a hugger!"

He came over and gave me a tight squeeze and then hugged my mom and said to her, "oh, you're just the right size!" At that point I think she thought the hug was over but then he held on to her and she is sort of sunk into him and said, "aww, he gives such good hugs..."❤️

I'm hoping mom leaves a comment here to share her experience from her heart.

Donation suggestions:
Cases of water and other drinks
Powdered drink mixes in a can
Canned, fresh or frozen fruit
Canned, fresh or frozen veggies
Butter
Meat
Milk
Cheese
Flour
Individual snacks

We are looking at a nacho bar this coming Sunday so we need
Big bags of tortilla chips, Doritos, Fritos
Ground beef
Chicken
Lettuce
Nacho cheese
Shredded cheese
Onions yellow or red
Avocados
Black beans
Refried beans
Ed is donating jalapenos.
Eric already made fresh pico de Gallo.
We have sour cream.

Donations can be made anytime at the address in our profile picture. For perishable items that need to be refrigerated or frozen, please send me a message and I will arrange a time to meet with you at the church.

We have Venmo ( -Eclipse-Project) and PayPal and the outreach has its own checking account so checks can be made out to The Eclipse Project and sent to
Michon Zalewski
5955a Linglestown Road
Harrisburg PA 17112.

Thank you from my ❤️.

Address

1605 Parkway West
Harrisburg, PA
17112

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