Burrito Brigade

Feeding the hungry in our community since 2014.

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Ways to support Burrito Brigade, Winter 2024: Financial donations and burrito ingredients.
multiple burritos wrapped up in foil are laid out on a food preparation table before they will be packed up to be delivered around the community.

About Burrito Brigade

Since 2014, the Weekend Burrito Brigade has provided more than 300,000 nutritious, vegan meals to hungry folks across the Eugene and Springfield area. Burrito Brigade creates an opportunity for community members to come together to hand craft and distribute hot meals to those who need it most. 
We’ve expanded our services to include Waste-to-Taste, a food rescue program, providing free food boxes. As of 2023, there are now 55 of Burrito Brigade’s Little Free Pantries throughout the community, addressing food insecurity at a neighborhood level.

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Weekend Burrito Brigade

There are four volunteers standing together around a stainless steel countertop in a commercial kitchen. They are all wearing face masks and food prep gloves as they assemble burritos for Burrito Brigade. There is a grey, commercial food prep bin in the center of the counter with vegan burrito filling in it and a large spoon for portioning sticks out of the tub. Some burritos are being rolled up into foil, others are mid-fill, while some are still just a flat tortilla on the table waiting to be filled and wrapped by volunteers.

Volunteers assemble burritos for Burrito Brigade at the Food for Lane County location.

Burrito Brigade started in 2014, and has hand-delivered more than 300,000 nutritious vegan meals to hungry individuals in Eugene and Springfield to date. We target two of the most food-insecure days: Saturdays and Sundays. Our unique distribution model delivers hot meals directly to the hungry via foot, bicycle, and automobile.

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Little Free Pantries

A Little Free Pantry is being refilled. A hand is reaching into the open door of the pantry to add Burrito Brigade Burritos. The pantry is vibrantly painted with blues, greens, blacks, yellows, oranges, reds. There is some hand-painted writing in the center that reads "Little Free Pantry."

A volunteer drops off burritos at the North Grand Little Free Pantry Location.

Little Free Pantries are designed to address food insecurity at a hyper-local level. The motto is “Take what you need, give what you can.” It’s all about neighbors helping neighbors. If you are interested in hosting a pantry, helping make sure they stay well stocked, or are in need of food, click “learn more.”

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Waste to Taste

The photographer stands near the check-in table for Waste to Taste, which is not pictured here. They are looking down the first row of WTT. On the lefthand side there are built-in wooden cabinets with dry goods neatly stacked all along the length of the countertops. At the end of the row are windows that look out to 6th Avenue, facing south. There is a white, plastic shelf at the far end of the row with canned goods stacked together on each shelf. In the foreground on the right-hand side, there is a black, metal shelf with loaves of bread neatly stacked together. The floor is wooden, the walls are white.

A glimpse of the Waste to Taste food pantry

Burrito Brigade hosts a food pantry Monday–Friday, by appointment. We partner with local businesses, grocery stores, and farms to rescue usable food that would otherwise end up in landfills, and redistribute it to people in need.

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YTD Burritos Served!

Lifetime # Burritos Served!

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Burrito Brigade is made possible thanks to community donations. Did you know? Our average donation amounts are $5 and $10. That means that folks are committed to supporting this work in whatever way they can. You can support it, too, with a recurring or one-time gift! Our overhead is very low. Funds donated to Burrito Brigade will be used responsibly, helping better the lives of people in the Eugene and Springfield communities.

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Volunteers help with burrito prep at the Weekend Burrito Brigade