Bean Soup Service Project

For my son, the Tiger Cub Scout, to earn the Citizenship Belt Loop, we worked on a service project of making bean soup mix and donating the 25 containers to a local church's food pantry.

The project was simple and was free, plus the price of gas to deliver the soup mixes.  I save containers for projects such as this, and used spaghetti jars, sour cream containers, etc.  I make bean soup quite a bit and had a surplus on hand.

This was a simple service project that anyone could do!  The best part was brightening the day of the lady running the food pantry.  She seemed pretty cranky at the time and asked how she can help us.  I told her that we were there to help the food pantry, instead and presented the containers.  They did not mind at all that we used what we had on hand and found them quite charming!