A La Crosse food pantry is dealing with a slight setback.
It comes after someone stole about 500 pounds of donated frozen meat from a chest freezer at the Wafer food pantry last week.
The executive director says it doesn't appear someone broke into the building but that people are coming and going throughout the day.
She says they can replace frozen hamburger patties for about 25 cents a pound, but it'd be too expensive to restock the donated food that was in the freezer. Wafer Executive Director Heidi Blanke says, "we can replace 500 pounds not too expensively but we won't get the variety of meat that was in there. There was shrimp, steaks, ribs, all kinds of wonderful items that we don't normally get if we had to purchase them."
Blanke says they do food pick-up's from a local store about three times a week and they also buy from food banks. However, the variety in foods usually comes from donations.
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