10/23/2025
EDIT: My heart hurts for everyone who has need for food, but PLEASE read our bottom paragraph before responding to this message. . We are only able to help those in the LOCAL SYRACUSE (and surrounding area) GLUTEN FREE COMMUNITY. I'm just one gal (and currently my only employee other than Finn, who handles the Saturday sales)--not a corporation, not a philanthropic organization (although I wish I was). Maybe someday I can take care of everyone (goals!!!!), but for now, I'll do everything I can for our small community!
If you live here and you're gluten free...I got you! ππ©·
To my friends in the local gluten free community:
Times are hard for many as we face unexpected and unprecedented changes.
If you find yourself struggling, in need of food (or even just treats, as when money is tight, the added pleasures are the first to be cut), you should by all means contact me (this is Jen, and I'm the only one who reads the messages here) and I will work together with you as best I can to make sure you have what you need!
As a baker, I can share what I make, but as a friend, I can help make sure you have food on your table! π©·π©·π©·
And if I can't meet your needs, I know several other bakers and have many customers who would be happy to help. Our community may be small...but I've always been blown away by the warm and generous support when I've asked for help supporting families in need.
I understand and respect that it's tough to ask for help. There's little worse than doing your best but still not being able to keep your family afloat. Our family went through our own horribly rough times. And I can still feel the sting of embarrassment from the cashier when I didn't understand how to use food stamps (yep...I'm THAT old! π Food stamps!) and the disinterest of the intake official at WIC. Demeaning, humiliating. So I know the pain of struggling to provide (and life rendering our sincerest efforts useless).
Hard times happen to good, hardworking, ethical people.
So if you're struggling right now, let us help you get past the rough times (and hopefully even find some joy!)
Please private message me and we will help figure how we can make your life easier and better!
We're all in this together!
Warmly,
Jen
***A FAVOR: While I would help anyone as best I can, I'm only one gal. A single Mom...and I count on my business to pay my bills.
So PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do NOT share this post in other Facebook groups or public forums. I am happy to help, but learned some hard lessons.
Last year, my similar posts ended up being shared in multiple large Facebook groups and I ended up with HUNDREDS of requests (for food and for holiday gifts). I did my best to make magic for everyone, but in the end, while we (I did what I could, but enlisted tje help of my amazing and generous customer base!) did as muxh as we could, we couldn't do it all. I was WAAAAY out of my league!And I ended up with scores of people who were angry tnat I didn't meet their needs (some we weren't able to help, especially those outside of Onondaga County, and others had hoped for or expected more than they received). I received raging phone calls and nasty messages, calling me irresponsible and selfish because I didnt meet everyone's needs. And that was an awful feeling.
I meant to help, but my magic wand is much smaller than I care to admit.
In the end, I learned that while I can do my best to share...I'm just one gal, and can't fulfill the needs of EVERYONE who is in need.
So my offer is extended to our local Syracuse gluten free community. Beyond that, we can try to help connect people with organizations that have more staff and resources than myself!
And I'll hope that every year, I can do a bit more!!!
Love to you all!.ππ©·
