Culinary Care

Consider this your excuse to get dressed up, eat ridiculously good food, sip something delicious and spend a night doing a whole lot of good while you’re at it. 🥂

The Gourmand Gala is back November 12 at Union Station — and we would really love to have you there.

🎟️ link in our bio Culinary Care - nourishing cancer recoveries 💛

Sometimes, care looks like one less thing to worry about. 💛

A delicious meal can make a long treatment day feel just a little lighter.

It’s one of the biggest misconceptions we hear.
People assume lunch is part of treatment.

For many outpatient cancer patients, it isn’t.
Treatment can last for hours, and many patients leave exhausted, hungry, or too tired to think about food.

That’s the gap Culinary Care exists to fill. 💛
Sometimes care looks like medicine.

Sometimes it looks like lunch. 🥙 🥪 🥘

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One of the hardest parts of chemo isn’t always what you’d expect.

Patients often tell us it isn’t just nausea or fatigue.
It’s losing the joy of food.

When appetite changes.
When favorite foods don’t taste right anymore.
When eating starts feeling like another challenge.

That’s why meals that are thoughtfully prepared can make such a difference.

Because it’s actually food they’ll want to eat.

We love getting to bring such wonderful people together around good food and such a fun time to support people facing cancer and their families.

Will you join us next time?

Thanks to Josh, Christine & Dan of Honey Butter Beach Club & Honey Butter Beach Club for the BBQ themed buffet and appetizers, to Clark and the Social Pickleball Fun team for being generous hosts and long-time Culinary Care supporters + beverage sponsors Crafthouse Cocktails & Off Color Brewing

📹Matthew Meschede / 📷 Melanie van Osta-Ahn

no one should face alone

We talk a lot about the person receiving treatment.
But today, we’re thinking about the person sitting beside them.
The one driving to appointments.
Keeping track of medications.
Trying to stay strong.
Trying to remember to eat, too.
Cancer doesn’t just affect one person.
That’s why our meals are for caregivers as well.
Because they deserve to be cared for, too. 💛

Cancer asks a lot of people.

Their energy, time, attention and strength.

We don’t think a difficult season should also mean settling for whatever food happens to be available.

Every patient deserves a meal that feels thoughtful.

A meal that nourishes.

And a meal that reminds them they’re worth caring for.

That’s why we exist. And it’s why we’re grateful you keep showing up, for every single chemo treatment. 💛

Every time we call on the Culinary Care community… you SHOW UP 🤍✨

These notes, these gifts, this love… they remind us why this work matters so much.

When you give, you’re sending a powerful message to families navigating cancer that compassion should always show up when it’s needed most.

With just a few days left in the year, will you help us carry this momentum into next year and support even more patients? 💛

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