H-E-B Feast of Sharing history

Each holiday season, H-E-B is celebrates the annual H-E-B Feast of Sharing dinners. In Corpus Christi and Victoria, Texas H-E-B partners up with the voluntexas program to support volunteer needs. With that said, H-E-B has a robust program and we wanted to share the ins and outs of this annual holiday tradition.

In Corpus Christi alone, an average of 950 volunteers are needed to support the preparation and distribution of 10,000 meals. Additionally, the Corpus Christi program also coordinates volunteers with the City for home deliveries.

More about the wide-reach, straight from the H-E-B Newsroom:

H-E-B, with the help from its Mobile Kitchens, will serve traditional Texas-style meals at all its dinner locations in the state. Each event is filled with music, activities for the family and a variety of free services such as health and wellness screenings and flu vaccinations. Some gatherings even get a visit from Santa! Additionally, in select cities, H-E-B Partners (employees) and other volunteers will deliver holiday meals to homebound seniors and others who are unable to attend the event. This year, H-E-B will launch an H-E-B Feast of Sharing event in Houston, where it will hold a drive-thru meal distribution with plans to give out more than 20,000 meals.

The H-E-B Feast of Sharing is a series of festive gatherings that include more than 340,000 meals served during 34 dinners throughout Texas and Mexico. Filled with food, music, and good cheer, these free holiday feasts are open to the public and bring together family, friends and neighbors. Launched in 1989, the H-E-B Feast of Sharing gives the company an opportunity to give thanks to its loyal customers and invites everyone to our holiday dinner table. In the more than three decades H-E-B has held the celebrations, more than 375,000 volunteers have helped serve nearly four million meals.

This initiative is an important part of H-E-B’s Hunger Relief Program, which works year-round to prevent hunger. Last year, H-E-B’s Hunger Relief Program donated 34 million pounds of food to families in need. Since 1982, the year the program was founded, H-E-B has donated more than 1 billion pounds of food to 5,500 non-profit organizations in Texas and Mexico.