Home: Guidelines for Hampers
Last year, 535 families applied to the Christmas Bureau for assistance. Of those, 375 families were adopted by individual families, businesses and organizations which provided food hampers and gifts for these families. The remaining 160 families received food hampers and gifts directly from the Langley Christmas Bureau
The Langley Christmas Bureau is able to provide these hampers and gifts of both cash and food items (non perishable) through the generous donations of the community
Our hampers have to be packed and delivered by December 22, 2007 . We would appreciate all donations being dropped off before December 18, 2007.
Guidelines for Christmas Hampers
The Langley Christmas Bureau offers the following suggestions for inclusion in Christmas Hampers and hampers should provide enough food for the Christmas week and all the trimmings for a hearty Christmas Dinner. Following is a list of the foods included in our hampers: |
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| Hamper Food Items |
Family of 6-7 |
Family of 4-5 |
Family of 2-3 |
| Gift Certificate |
$80 |
$60 |
$40 |
| Gift Certificates enable clients to purchase perishable food items for their Christmas Dinner in the days leading up to Christmas. |
| Potatoes |
10 lb |
10 lb |
5 lb |
| Vegetables (canned) |
5 x 398 gm |
4 x 398 gm |
2 x 398 gm |
| Cranberry sauce/jelly |
398 ml |
398 ml |
398 ml |
| Soup (canned/dehydrated) |
5 x 284 ml |
3 x 284 ml |
284 ml |
| Real fruit juice |
4 litres |
3 litres |
2 litres |
| Tea, coffee, hot chocolate |
250 gm |
250 gm |
250 gm |
| Peanut Butter |
1 kg |
1 kg |
1 kg |
| Jam, honey, marmalade |
500 ml |
500 ml |
500 ml |
| Fruit (canned) |
3 x 398 ml |
2 x 398 ml |
398 ml |
| Chocolate or candy canes |
750 gm |
50 gm |
50 gm |
| Stove-Top dressing |
2 x 250 gm |
120 gm |
120 gm |
| Foil Roasting Pan |
1 |
1 |
1 |
| Christmas candy/nuts |
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| Cake or cookies |
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| Pasta/sauce/rice |
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| Pancake batter/syrup/cereals |
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| Crackers |
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- Toilet paper, tissues, paper towel, napkins, dish soap, candles paper table cloth, cake mixes and canned frosting, brownie mixes, anything you would enjoy or need through the Christmas period.
- Unfortunately we are unable to include any home baking or canning in any of our hampers.
- We would also ask that you do not include any alcohol in the Christmas hampers.
