Kitchen Angels, Inc.

Our Frozen Meals Program (FMP) is for those who fit our eligibility criteria, but live outside our delivery area
or have no meal options in their local community as well as clients within our delivery zone but who live with
conditions that prevent volunteer contact. Care providers or others facilitate the enrollment application with
our Client Services Manager. Once enrolled, Care Providers stop by once a week and pick up a supply of
freshly frozen meals according to the client's needs and storage capacity.

During our renovation, we added a Blast Chiller that safely takes 100 pounds of meals from
temperature to frozen in 90 minutes. The process prevents ice crystals from forming, maintains the integrity
and nutritional quality of the freshly prepared meals. Because they are frozen, meals can travel long
distances safely-when transported in our thermal bags. The meals arrive frozen and are stored in the clients
freezer/refrigerator until needed. Meals are thawed in the refrigerator and reheated in a microwave or
conventional oven.
For clients who have need and storage capacity, we offer soup, breakfast and nutritional shakes (diabetic
friendly Glucerna).

Kitchen Angels has never had a waiting list for services. For clients who live within our service delivery area,
we have been able to accommodate the steady growth in enrollment and our fund raising efforts have been
sufficiently successful that we've always accommodated the increases in costs for food, packaging and
utilities.
Because our FMP extends our reach beyond our current service, should Kitchen Angels not have sufficient
funds to meet demand, we will have to pace the enrollment of new FMP clients to ensure additional services
do not outstrip our ability to support those services.

Founded in 1992, Kitchen Angels delivers freshly prepared meals five days a week to homebound
chronically or terminally ill people. Each meal contains a soup or salad, an entree, dessert or fruit, and
whole-grain bread. Once each week, we provide whole fresh fruit for snacks, protein supplements by
request, and frozen entrees for weekend meals. Meals are formulated to meet individual dietary needs and
follow one of six dietary tracks. Last spring, in response to requests from clients as well as at the
recommendation of our dietitian, we began delivering a protein-rich breakfast. In addition to helping maintain
our dietary tracks, our Registered Nutritionist and Dietician consults with individual clients to ensure they
have chosen the most appropriate dietary track to best meet their nutritional needs.
We remain the only organization in New Mexico providing free home-delivered meals to chronically or
terminally homebound individuals under age 60. Enrollment of individuals over age 60 with special dietary
needs grows each year because the local senior meals program does not provide special diets. Based on
our 2018 client enrollment data, 93 percent of our clients lived at or below federal poverty guidelines.
Without our services, most of our clients could not remain in their homes and would be forced to move into
nursing care facilities.
Since our founding, we've prepared and delivered more than 1.3 million meals to more than 6,200
individuals.