Meals on Wheels program vital to some recipients
QUINCY, ILL. -- The Quincy Fire Department helped out the community in a different way Tuesday, December 15th.
The firefighters lent a hand to the Meals on Wheels program by delivering more than 250 meals.
The meals were prepared by the Meals Plus for Seniors kitchen, at the Quincy Senior and Family Resource Center.
We followed one fire fighter on the beginning of his route.
He delivered a meal to Donna Lewis who says she has been getting meals from the program for quite some time now.
She told us several medical conditions make it very difficult to find food she can eat.
She says without the program.. she doesn't know where that food would come from.
What does the Meals on Wheels program mean to you?
"My life. I can't buy these frozen dinners because they tell me I can't eat those, they're too full of salt. I have to cook my own food. And being in a wheel chair, I try, I can get into the kitchen, but it's awful hard to work at a stove and stuff in a wheel chair," said Lewis.
Recipients of the meals can receive up to two-thirds of their daily nutritional requirements with both a lunch and breakfast meal.
Both of those meals are offered as well as frozen meals for evening and weekends.
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