'Lasagna Lady' Michelle Brenner Is Bringing Comfort To Her Hometown, One Lasagna At A Time

Friday, August 21 2020 by Monika Kelly/Richard Hunt

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Michelle Brenner
Michelle Brenner: 'Lasagna Lady' in her Gig Harbor, Washington kitchen

(K-LOVE's Positive People - by Monika Kelly) - After being furloughed from her job as a sales manager, Michelle Brenner decided to fill her time helping others. She was shopping for food to help seniors when she was inspired to make homemade lasagna for those who couldn't get out during the shelter-in-place orders. .

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What started out as a simple post on her neighborhood Facebook page offering to cook and deliver homemade, 6-pound pans of lasagna ended up with a town filled with a hunger for lasagna.

A pan on the stove of homemade meat sauce
[Photo Credit: Michelle Brenner] Homemade meat sauce

Now known as the "Lasagna Lady," Michelle Brenner guesses she's baked more than a thousand pans of lasagna. She's delivered them to fire departments, medical providers, prisons, the elderly and just about anyone who has asked. 

Pans of lasagna to go in Michelle
[Photo Credit: Michelle Brenner] Michelle's kitchen is filled with lasagna orders to go

Michelle gets up early each morning knowing exactly how many orders she's received and immediately gets started baking. She leaves the fresh lasagnas in her outdoor pantry, making it easy for people to come and pick them up.  

Michelle stirring sauce, wearing Lasagna lady t-shirt side by side with two pans of lasagna
[Photo Credit: Uptown Gig Harbor Facebook Page] Michelle Brenner featured on the Uptown Gig Harbor Facebook page

Michelle says she's found her purpose in life--providing love and comfort through a home-cooked meal to others who are going through different levels of anxiety during this crisis. 

The "Lasagna Lady" goes to bed each night content; happy to live a life better than the best she's ever known--serving one lasagna at a time.

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