Center hosts food-pantry item cooking classes

LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - Cooking a family meal can already be tiring enough, but it can be doubly stressful when ingredients of that meal are limited to food found in a food pantry. That’s why Bauer Community Center is hosting cooking classes for adults using items from a food pantry.

The classes were created to offer simple solutions with delicious results using commodities such as canned goods, bread and pasta.

In collaboration with Nancy’s Broken Circle, classes are offered at 10:30 a.m. every Wednesday at 330 Fountain St.

We headed to one of the classes Wednesday, where we met up with Nancy's Broken Circle's George Woodruff, who taught participants how to make tuna noodle casserole and brownies.

"We were dealing with young kids only, but we thought, 'What better way to help kids than to teach their parents?'" Woodruff said. "We teach them to improvise, look at what you have in the kitchen in your cupboards, see what you have, and what you can cook with these items."

The classes are free and open to the public.

To RSVP you an call the Bauer Community Center at 765-742-4848.