Dozens of volunteers made around 300 ready to-go meals for community pantries and fridges on Nov. 7 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Green Bay.

Many of those volunteers who went to Rooted In Inc.'s emergency cooking session were new. They were able to turn over 200 pounds of food left over from the Packers' game on Nov. 2 at Lambeau Field into at least 300 meals for the community.

Selena Darrow, founder and president of Rooted In, organized the event to help the demand for food while federal funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is up in the air.

Funding for FoodShare, Wisconsin's SNAP program, was paused during the U.S. government shutdown, which hit its 38th day on Nov. 7. About 700,000 people rely on FoodShare in Wisconsin and 27,000 of them live in Brown County.

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