Brighter Days Food Pantry

12/22/2025

Here's an easy & delicious soup recipe for the next cold snap!

8-Can Chicken Taco Soup 🍲

Ingredients:

1 can pinto beans (drained)🫘

1 can black beans (drained)🫘

1 can sweet corn (drained) 🌽

1 can diced tomatoes🍅

1 can Rotel (diced tomatoes with green chilies)🫑

1 can cooked chicken breast (or 1½ cups shredded cooked chicken)🐔

1 can chicken broth

1 packet taco seasoning🌮

Instructions:

Dump all 8 cans (including liquids unless draining is noted) into a large pot.

Stir in taco seasoning.

Simmer over medium heat for 15–20 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Serve hot with toppings like sour cream, shredded cheese, lime, tortilla chips, or cilantro & enjoy!!!

12/18/2025

We are BEYOND grateful for our amazing volunteers!!! They showed up and served 250 families with pure joy!!! WHAT A NIGHT ✝️🛒🎁💝 We wish all our volunteers, clients, donors, friends and families a VERY Merry Christmas!!! ⛪️👼🕊⭐️👑🤶🎄🎅❤️

12/17/2025

The Brighter Days Food Pantry will be closed Wednesday, December 24th. We wish you & your family a Christmas filled with God's love, grace, and peace 🎄❤️✝️🕊️

12/17/2025

12/17/2025

🎉 Today is the day!!! 🎉 Full Plates🍽️, Full Hearts❤️💚 ~ Holiday Box🎁giveaway happens today!!! ⏰530pm to 7pm drive-thru style🚗 pantry at Leander Church of Christ ⛪️ - Brighter Days Food Pantry located at 📍300 Crystal Falls Parkway in Leander, TX 🎉🎄⛄️ Our volunteers have been hard at work the past few months, gathering, sorting & packing over 11,000 items that were purchased or donated SPECIFICALLY for these special holiday boxes...AND TODAY we finally get to bless the community. This is what being the hands and feet of Jesus looks like....this is what we are called to do ~ not just during the holidays, but all year long!!! God is good, all the time....all the time, God is good!!! 🙏👑⭐️🕊️ We are looking forward to seeing you tonight!!!

12/04/2025

Next HOPE Program giveaway is December 16th from 1:30pm to 2:30pm

Brighter Days Food Pantry
Leander Church of Christ
300 Crystal Falls Parkway
Leander, TX 78641

For low income Seniors over 65
3rd Tuesday of every month

12/04/2025

UPCOMING EVENTS & CLOSURES:
December 7th - Giving Machine ENDS
December 10th - "Full Plates, Full Hearts" Holiday Box Food Drive ENDS
December 16th - HOPE Program for Seniors Holiday Box Giveaway
December 17th - "Full Plates, Full Hearts" Holiday Box Giveaway
December 24th - Closed for Christmas
December 31st - Closed for New Year's

12/04/2025

*** LAST CHANCE *** Last chance to donate to the Brighter Days Food Pantry through the Giving Machine located at The Crossover (1717 Scottsdale Drive, Cedar Park 78641). Please go check out this unique "vending machine style" donation drive. The Giving Machine will be accepting donations through December 7th. Please come support our mission to feed our community!!!

11/25/2025

Skate Night!!! Come to give, stay to skate ⛸️

11/23/2025

Pack the Racks ends TOMORROW - Sunday, November 23rd

FULL PLATES/FULL HEARTS is a special ministry of the Brighter Days Food Pantry! To help with this worthwhile effort, click any of the links below to order online:

Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/18WJI42B4AMJ4?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_ggr-subnav-share_7SXK4B46S8XVM2V1GTQC

Walmart https://www.walmart.com/lists/shared/WL/7bf9b565-e3a2-4d08-9ec9-d2b80da37da7

Costco
https://www.costco.com/ListDetailView?listId=9a186397-b503-42eb-b62b-3dcbcf805eb1&fromPage=NonAjaxAccountListDisplayView

11/17/2025

JOIN US ~ TOMORROW!!! Tuesday, November 18th 10:30am at The Crossover (1717 Scottsdale Drive, Cedar Park 78641) for the Giving Machine ribbon cutting & kick-off!!! We are so honored to have been chosen for this "vending machine style" donation drive. The Giving Machine will be accepting donations tomorrow through December 7th. Please come support our mission to feed our community!!! To read more about this, please check out:

at a Austin Giving Machine this Christmas season. 100% of your donations go to local and global charities.