Live Painting Auction!

WWA Gallery will be donating the work created at the opening of their next show on January 15th to Lunch Bunch! The participating artists will work on a live painting which will then be auctioned off by Lunch Bunch.

WWA Gallery
January 15th, 7-10 PM
9517 Culver Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232
310.836.4992


Come join us at the opening and watch the artists paint! Click the flyer to enlarge. 

Christmas Eve Dinner

A week before Christmas I got a call from Alan of Luna Park Restaurant with a very generous offer. They wanted to prepare a hot dinner, pre-packaged with silverware for us to pick up and pass out to our Lunch Bunch regulars! This was such an amazing gift from Luna Park to Lunch Bunch. They saved us time by having all the packages prepared by the time we arrived and made a meal far more delicious than we could have attempted. We can't express our gratitude enough for their kindness. Thank you Alan, Cameron, Aimee and the chefs at Luna Park for making Christmas eve dinner very special for Lunch Bunch.

The meal was directly from their dinner menu:
Skyscraper Lager Marinated Half Chicken with Roasted Brussels Sprouts, Fingerling Potatoes and Butternut Squash



Also included was a hot cup of vegetable soup! It smelled like smokey garlic, so good!





The smell of the food was so strong, we almost got rushed in downtown while passing out the food! We heard great things about the meal from the recipients when we did our regular route on Sunday! Everyone loved the hot meal on a cold night.

Here is their address and website, everyone in LA should stop by for a meal and thank them on behalf of Lunch Bunch!

Luna Park Restaurant
672 S La Brea Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90036-3519
(323) 934-2110
http://www.lunaparkla.com/

We also want to send a big red THANK YOU to Kirsten Anderson of Roq La Rue gallery for her super generous Christmas gift/donation to Lunch Bunch. It's because of wonderful, selfless, and generous people like you that we can do what we do. You guys made Christmas so special for the Lunch Bunchers!

Happy Holidays from Lunch Bunch!

Week 24

We thought we should change things up a bit this week because everyone loves variety. Instead of bananas, we bought apples (red and green) and oranges and sliced them up. We also got a vegetable mix instead of baby carrots alone and pretzels instead of cheese and crackers because they are healthier and lower in fat.


Apples and oranges sliced up for easy eating.


Carrots, broccoli, and cauliflower


Pretzels!


The contents of this week's lunch bag, minus the water which we keep in the car.


Mere set up the paper bags.

Auction Shipment Update

**If you have sent payment for your winning items from the Lunch Bunch auction, they have all been shipped!** 

Some of the packages should have arrived by now from the first shipment. If you are happy with our services, please leave us feedback on ebay (the good kind)!

Thank you!

Week 23

This week we decided to stop by weekly farmer's market and see how much it would cost if we switched to organic produce inste of the conventionally grown (pre-ripened) produce from the grocery store and it was surprisingly inexpensive! The onions were only a quarter and a huge cucumber was $1! The tomatoes are juicy, perfectly ripe and tasted amazing.


The rest of items we got from Smart and Final.






Some of the sandwiches included swiss cheese.


One good-looking sandwich.




Danielle Directo from the LAist came along to take pictures for an article on Lunch Bunch!


We wore our festive sweaters for the occasion.


The contents of this week's bags.


One of our regulars was telling us there was a strong rain coming sunday night and he and his wife were really worried about their blankets getting soaked because he had a cane and it's difficult for them to find a close-by laundromat to carry their wet blankets to. While he didn't ask us for anything, we decided to stop by the nearest Home Depot and pick up a few plastic sheets they could use during the rain to shield their belongings from wetness.

The one pictured was for someone else, but we got the couple a very large one they could share with other people in their area. It was 10 x 25 feet. We got another large one for the nice man across the street that always gives his meals away to other homeless people before taking one for himself. He immediately told us he would give the sheet to the couple across the street. We reassured him they got one already.


Gloomy day before the rains came.

*Auction Shipping Update*

I have shipped out more than half of the art from the Lunch Bunch auction already and the rest will be mailed out on Monday. Thank you for your patience! There is a lot of packing to be done.

Some people may start getting packages as early as Monday or Tuesday! We'd like to ask that if you're happy with your items, to please leave us feedback on ebay.

Thank you!

Week 22

The Lunch Bunch auction has ended (with only one piece left to bid on) and it was a GREAT success. We reached our first goal of $1000 and raised almost $2800! That's over 1400 meals we can make and give away! All of the listings ended with bids, some of them climbing into the 100's. Thanks to these amazing artists and collectors, Lunch Bunch can now raise the number of meals to 48 again for many months.


We included fresh baby carrots for a more healthy snack.


Mere brought some heat packs for the cold weather.




Mere hard at work.


I made extra Thanksgiving cookies for our regulars.


Another group making the homeless listen to them read from the bible before letting them have a peanut butter sandwich. They weren't very friendly to us either.