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Sharing Shelves

Sharing Shelves is a food insecurity resource created at UW-Parkside to help help students, faculty and staff during challenging times when there are limited resources for food. The Sharing Shelves are located in Wyllie Lower Main Place near zone 4. If you are in need of this resource, please help yourself. If the Sharing Shelves is not convenient for your needs, please visit the link below for other opportunities.

FOOD RESOURCES

If you are interested in donating food please refer to the information below. 

DONATIONS

Thank you to everyone who has donated to the Sharing Shelves! Anyone can participate in the donation process. Several options are listed below:

DROP-OFF LOCATIONS
Leave food items at a drop-off location.  (For quality control purposes, the actual Sharing Shelves is NOT a drop-off location.)

  • Library Front Desk
  • MOLN 360
  • GRNQ 344
  • RITA 235
  • SAC (Copy room on the second floor)
  • Tallent Hall Entrance

GROCERY GIFT CARDS AND MONETARY DONATIONS
Grocery gift cards are a convenient way for Sharing Shelves to purchase limited-stock in-demand supplies. Please drop gift cards off at the Library front desk.

You may also make a monetary donation in any dollar amount, which will be used to purchase additional food items.

DONATE

CAMPUS ORGANIZATIONS FOOD DRIVE SPONSORSHIP
If you are a member of a student group, department or alumni group and you would like to sponsor a food drive for the Sharing Shelves, please email sharingshelves@uwp.edu.

FOOD ITEM SUGGESTIONS

 

  • Nuts and granola bars
  • Ramen noodles, cup of noodles
  • Rice
  • Cereal (no oatmeal)
  • Canned tomatoes
  • Ready-to-heat canned food (Chef Boyardee, etc.)
  • Peanut butter and jelly
  • Fruit cups
  • Milk, juice and other drinks
  • Shelf-stable proteins (tuna, chicken, tofu, etc.)

 

Shelf-stable vegetables and beans
Tomatoes (diced, sauce, crushed, paste, etc.)
Canned corn, peas, carrots, mixed, etc.
Beans of all kinds
Canned pasta with meat  
Chef Boyardee, Campbells Spaghettio’s, Hormel Compleats, Dinty Moore Beef Stew, etc.  
Ready-to-eat soups with meat  
Campbells, Progresso, etc.  
Shelf-stable proteins  
tuna, chicken, ham, tofu  
Canned broth
Chicken broth, beef broth, vegetable broth, etc.
Peanut butter
Shelf-stable fruits  
Canned in water or its own Juice  
especially popular - pineapple and mandarin oranges  
Shelf-stable milk alternatives  
Such as soy or almond milk  
100% fruit Juice

COSTCO - Popular items

  • Tasty Bite Indian Madras Lentils
  • Shin Noodle Soup
  • Bibigo Cooked Sticky White Rice
  • Kirkland Trail Mix
  • Belvita Breakfast Bars
  • Dole Mandarin Orange Cups
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