Weekend Lunchbox

Hippo Nation Article

Weekend Lunchbox is grateful to have been highlighted in the September 2025 Hippo Monthly newsletter.  If you are interested in supporting this program, please email [email protected] to get connected!

KVUE News

Weekend Lunchbox appreciates being featured on KVUE in November 2025.

Our Mission

Weekend Lunchbox is a volunteer-led ministry providing shelf-stable, easy-to-prepare food to food-insecure Hutto ISD children during the school year—sharing God’s love through practical care.
Hutto Discovery UMC is proud to lead the community's Weekend Lunchbox program, which aims to provide nutritious, shelf-stable, and easy-to-prepare food for children in food-insecure households within Hutto ISD. This collaborative community initiative focuses on combating hunger on weekends and holidays among students identified as homeless according to the federal McKinney-Vento Act guidelines.

Impact Highlights

WELB continues to bridge the weekend hunger gap for our local students. During the 24-25 Hutto ISD school year, we distributed 1,176 sacks of groceries, providing essential nutrition when school meals were unavailable.

Currently, WELB serves 75 students each week, ensuring they return to the classroom on Monday nourished, focused, and ready to learn. This consistent outreach is a testament to the strength of our partners and the unwavering generosity of the Hutto community.

Donations Welcome
We are currently collecting specific items to directly benefit our Weekend Lunchbox program. While brand preferences aren't strict, we do have requirements for the contents, size, and form of the donations. We are looking for pre-packaged, individual, single-serving sizes of the following items.  Donations can be placed in the WELB bin located in our Discovery Center at 350 Ed Schmidt Blvd.

Specific Items

Shop our Amazon Wish List.
Download a printable WELB brochure.
  • GREATEST NEED:  Canned tuna fish (5 oz.)
  • GREATEST NEED:  Vienna sausages, regular flavor (4.6 oz.)
  • Ramen noodle packets, chicken flavor (3 oz.)
  • Easy mac and cheese bowls (2.05 oz.)
  • Instant oatmeal packets, any flavor (1.5 oz.)
  • Cereal fun pack boxes, cups, or packets, any flavor (about 1 oz.)
  • Green bean cups (4 oz.)
  • Mandarin oranges fruit bowl cups (4 oz.)
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​Any donations that don't meet the Weekend Lunchbox Program's specific criteria will be gratefully donated to the Hutto Resource Center, our community's food pantry.  Thank you for your support!

Support Weekend Lunchbox

For more information on available opportunities to support this ministry, please contact our Weekend Lunchbox Team, email [email protected].

Our Weekend Lunchbox Amazon Wish List is updated each month to highlight our current needs.

To financially support Weekend Lunchbox, give online or denote WELB in memo of check payable to Hutto Discovery UMC, PO Box 426, Hutto, TX 78634.

With a monthly donation of $25, we can feed a hungry child every weekend. What an amazing gift to help make an immediate, positive, yet long-reaching impact on a child. Thank you for your generosity, as we simply couldn't do it without your financial support.

Thank you for your support!

The Weekend Lunchbox program is made possible through the vital support of our primary partners and sponsors:
  • Hutto ISD
  • City of Hutto
  • Hutto Foundation
  • Wal-Mart
We also extend our sincere gratitude to our recurring donors within the Hutto community whose consistent generosity sustains our mission.