When Pigs Fly: Real Good Food, BBQ Catering, Events, Concessions

15/11/2025

Preparations for the 2025 "Day of Giving Back--Free Community Thanksgiving Dinner" are going well. Thanks so much for your support. We do still need volunteers and donations, so this is your friendly reminder.

We know there were issues with the links we've posted, but we think we've got everything working now. If you have any further problems, please let us know so we can fix them.

To volunteer, please email Cathey Sawyer at [email protected] so she can get you on the schedule. Full information, including possible job roles, is at: https://www.pigsflybbq.com/2025-volunteer-instructions

To donate, either food or cash, please click: https://www.pigsflybbq.com/2025-donations
If bringing food please call Kellen at (304) 249-8124 to make your pledge. They have limited storage, so please start dropping it off at Swift Level Fine Meats on Monday the 24th.

We take cash, check, Venmo, Cash App and credit cards any time!

Media, please download this years press release here: https://www.pigsflybbq.com/2025-thanksgiving-press-release

If you represent a nursing home, group home, or similar and want to order ten or more carry-out meals, please call Kellen a few days ahead of time to place your order, so we can coordinate better. Otherwise, we'll post a phone number and start taking delivery orders at 9:00 on Wednesday, the 26th.

On Thanksgiving Day, The dining room will open at 12:00 noon.
We'll start dispatching deliveries at about that time, and will begin filling carry-out orders at 1:30. We prefer to have you join us in the dining room, if you can.

We've started making the 2025 donor's list. Meanwhile, you can still see the 2024 donors here: https://www.pigsflybbq.com/2024-donors-list

Thanks everyone. We knew we could count on you, and you never disappoint!

Mike and Kellen
Kellen's Kitchen -- A Catering Company

14/11/2025

Note to Media: The press release for the 2025 "Day of Giving Back--Free Thanksgiving Dinner" is now posted at https://www.pigsflybbq.com/2025-thanksgiving-press-release.

If the above link is troublesome (and sometimes it is), please visit www.pigsflybbq.com and click the "2025 Free Thanksgiving Dinner" item on the main menu.

Let us know if you hit any snags. Thank you!

13/11/2025

We have a lot of fun organizing our annual Free Community Thanksgiving Dinner but don't forget, we also cook for a living!

We are now booking holiday meals and parties for your family, friends, or company event. Turkey, ham, and prime rib are favorites, but we also feature charcuterie, grazing boards, sammiches, and all sorts of foods, both plain and fancy. Choose meet-up, delivery, or full-service options.

Let us cook, so you can celebrate!

Please call Kellen today to discuss your ideas and get a competitive quote. We appreciate your business!

(304) 249-8124

Or, check out some of the menu suggestions at: www.pigsflybbq.com

Thanks!

12/11/2025

We're having some trouble with the link to our website. You can get to the Thanksgiving pages by going to www.pigsflybbq.com and navigating with the top menu.

Meanwhile , here is our current wish list.
Last Updated November 12 , 2025:

Please call Kellen at (304) 249-8124 to make your pledge. This allows her to coordinate donations so we don't end up with 100 cans of green beans and no cranberries or something like that. Plan to drop off starting on Monday November 24 through Wednesday, November 26.

We still need:

30 quarts of heavy cream

35 pounds of real butter (not margarine)

2-liter pop (Pepsi, Coke, Dr. Pepper, Mt. Dew, Sprite, Orange, Diet Pepsi, Diet Coke)

12/11/2025

The 2025 Day of Giving Back--Community Thanksgiving Dinner is coming together! We are grateful to everyone who has reached out to help but, frankly, we need more of you. Please let us know how you would like to participate as follows:

VOLUNTEERS: We need volunteer help, lots of it, on Wednesday, Thursday morning, Thursday afternoon, and Friday. Please email Cathey Sawyer at our new email, [email protected], and she'll answer your questions and get your registered on the schedule. Please leave her your phone number so she can get back to you with details.

For more volunteer information, click https://www.pigsflybbq.com/2025-volunteer-instructions/

DONATIONS: People have pledged a lot of food, and marked off a good bit of our wish list. But, there are still items we need.

Also, we can always use cash. We convert it to food, and use if for other expenses like paper goods, drinks, and kitchen supplies. There are lots of ways to donate. Please check it out here:
https://www.pigsflybbq.com/2025-donations

To make a food pledge, or for general questions of any kind, just call Kellen at (304) 249-8124.

We look forward to seeing you and, together, we can make this year's celebration truly one to remember!

Thanks so much,

Kellen and Mike

PS; Dinner will be served at noon on Thanksgiving Day at the West Virginia Building, at the State Fairgrounds. It is absolutely free, and all are welcome to attend! See you there!

11/11/2025

Well written. This applies to all sorts of small food service establishments. Not just bakeries.

Each year as we approach the holidays, we release new menus and often serve customers who come in only once or twice a year. Each year during this time, we receive some negative feedback as our prices go up. Some of it, very biting. We know many of you support us and recognize that our prices are fair or at the very least comparable to other local scratch bakeries. But we’d be lying if we said the negativity doesn’t bother us. As we’re heading into the hardest part of the year for our staff when everyone else is having parties each weekend, we honestly need kind words more than ever.

We’ve been doing a lot of brainstorming about helping people who are food insecure right now. We instituted Free Soup Fridays but we originally wanted to do something else too…we wanted to use our “buying power” to put together meal kits that families could purchase for our cost. We were hoping we could help people make casseroles to feed many for very little money. But when we did the digging into our actual costs compared to grocery stores, we realized we really couldn’t. We do get very good deals on certain products, but we also pay the same or sometimes much more on other products. Many people don’t realize that our wholesale prices incorporate commissions to our sales representatives, the cost of delivery and meeting order minimums, which often negates whatever savings we could have had. When we tried to create these meal kits, we literally could not come up with a recipe that was significantly less expensive at our cost than anything an average person could buy at a grocery store.

So please, when you think about our pricing, remember that we pay the same amount for most of our ingredients as you do at home. Then remember that we pay kitchen professionals to make it for you. We also pay for the container it comes in, the bag you take it home in, the order slip we wrote, the POS system we used to ring you out, the toner we printed our production sheet with to organize our food prep. Don’t forget the big ones…rent, utilities, equipment repairs and purchases, insurance, accountants, lawyers, advertising. The list goes on and on. So please, if our prices don’t work for you, we understand. We know we cost more than homemade or the local wholesale club. All we’re asking is for you to please take the anger and mean spiritedness out of the equation. We are just people doing the best we can, same as you.

10/11/2025

UPDATED AS OF MONDAY MORNING: We are happy to report that the credit card processing glitch has been fixed. All donations are moving through the system. No action is required on your part. Thank you for your patience as we worked this out.
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The donations for the Day of Giving Back--Free Community Thanksgiving Dinner are starting to come in, and volunteers are scheduling times to work. Thank you! Let's keep it going.

Please know that the credit card company rakes about 3% off the top of your donation. If you prefer, you can either drop off cash or check at Swift Level or Creative Kitchens, or mail a check to us at:

When Pigs Fly
P.O. Box 204
Maxwelton, West Virginia 24957

If you'd rather use Cash App, send your donation to $KellenLeef.

For Venmo, send it to -Leef.

To get on the volunteer schedule, please call Cathey Sawyer at (304) 645-5401 and she'll answer all your questions.

For the updated food donation list, please see the link below:

https://www.pigsflybbq.com/2025-donations

Please call Kellen if you hit any snags.

Thank you so much! We apologize for the credit card glitch.

Kellen and Mike

PS: For some reason, the link to the donations page above is also glitching. Go figure. I'll try to figure it out on Monday. Meanwhile, the current food wish list is below. You can get to the Thanksgiving pages by going to www.pigsflybbq.com and navigating with the top menu.

Our Wish List
Last Updated November 7 , 2025:

Please call Kellen at (304) 249-8124 to make your pledge. This allows her to coordinate donations so we don't end up with 100 cans of green beans and no cranberries or something like that. Plan to drop off starting on Monday November 24 through Wednesday, November 26.

We still need:

(Note: A #10 can is one of the large, institutional-sized cans. It holds about 94 fluid ounces. A typical grocery-store can of greenbeans is 14.5 ounces. So, a #10 can is roughly equal to 6 1/2 regular grocery store cans. Confused yet?)

16 pounds of carrots

13 bundles of celery

25 pounds of onions

20 pounds of Granny Smith apples

20 pounds of pecans (prefer chopped)

60 quarts of chicken broth

40 quarts of heavy cream

50 pounds of real butter (not margarine)

2-liter pop (Pepsi, Coke, Dr. Pepper, Mt. Dew, Sprite, Orange, Diet Pepsi, Diet Coke)

08/11/2025

This morning, I gave a friend a ride to a local food pantry. People are lined up all the way across the parking lot, and the door doesn't open for another half hour.

They came out early because they have been watching the news, and are afraid the food will run out before they get their turn.

Most don't understand or care about the political situation. They just know they need to feed the kids.

This is America.

There has been a wonderful outpouring of support for food pantries over the last couple of weeks. I am humbled and appreciative of all of that you have done.

But, these providers of last resort are stretched thin. The need is great.

Please click on https://gofund.me/0477e8027 and donate what you can.

If you'd rather not use a credit card (and avoid their 3% fee), just make out a check to the Lewisburg/Fairlea Food Pantry and mail it to us at the address below. They will divide it evenly between the ten food pantries in Greenbrier County. Every dime we receive will end up as food on somebody's table.

Or, just take some food, hygiene supplies, and/or money down to your local food bank. Or support one of the other worthy fundraisers now going in the county. One way or the other, please just do it.

Thank you,

Mike and Kellen
Kellen's Kitchen--Catering
P.O. Box 204
Maxwelton, WV. 24957

https://gofund.me/0477e8027

07/11/2025

The donations for the Day of Giving Back--Free Community Thanksgiving Dinner are starting to come in, and volunteers are scheduling times to work. Thank you! Let's keep it going.

Please know that we are having a glitch with credit card processing on our website, so we've disabled the credit card link until we get it ironed out. Hopefully Monday.

Meanwhile, please call (304) 249-8124 and give your card information to Kellen, if you choose that option.

Please know that the credit card company rakes about 3% off the top of your donation. If you prefer, you can either drop off cash or check at Swift Level or Creative Kitchens, or mail a check to us at:

When Pigs Fly
P.O. Box 204
Maxwelton, West Virginia 24957

If you'd rather use Cash App, send your donation to $KellenLeef.

For Venmo, send it to -Leef.

To get on the volunteer schedule, please call Cathey Sawyer at (304) 645-5401 and she'll answer all your questions.

For the updated food donation list, please see the link below:

https://www.pigsflybbq.com/2025-donations

Please call Kellen if you hit any snags.

Thank you so much! We apologize for the credit card glitch.

Kellen and Mike

PS: For some reason, the link to the donations page above is also glitching. I'll try to figure it out this weekend. Meanwhile, the current food wish list is below:

Our Wish List
Last Updated November 7 , 2025:

Please call Kellen at (304) 249-8124 to make your pledge. This allows her to coordinate donations so we don't end up with 100 cans of green beans and no cranberries or something like that. Plan to drop off starting on Monday November 24 through Wednesday, November 26.

We still need:

(Note: A #10 can is one of the large, institutional-sized cans. It holds about 94 fluid ounces. A typical grocery-store can of greenbeans is 14.5 ounces. So, a #10 can is roughly equal to 6 1/2 regular grocery store cans. Confused yet?)

16 pounds of​ carrots

13 bundles of celery

25 pounds of onions

20 pounds of Granny Smith apples

20 pounds of pecans (prefer chopped)

60 quarts of chicken broth

40 quarts of heavy cream

50 pounds of real butter (not margarine)

30 pounds of brown sugar

25 pounds of white sugar

2-liter pop (Pepsi, Coke, Dr. Pepper, Mt. Dew, Sprite, Orange, Diet Pepsi, Diet Coke)

06/11/2025

Planning is moving ahead for When Pigs Fly's 2025 "Day of Giving Back" Free Thanksgiving Dinner at the Fairgrounds this year. We are receiving donations, and volunteers are signing up. We are grateful for every single one of you!

Dinner will be served at noon on Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 2025 in the West Virginia Building at the State Fair of West Virginia. All are welcome. There is absolutely no charge for dinner, though we do put out a tip jar for those who'd like to donate.

Take out will be available starting at 1:30.

Mike and Kellen are just regular people, and there is no way we could pull this off on our own. We need donations of either food, or money (which we can convert to food and supplies). Our wish list is posted on our website, and will be updated as pledges come in. We also have instructions for donating by cash, check, credit card, Venmo or Cash App. It's all at: https://www.pigsflybbq.com/2025-donations or https://www.pigsflybbq.com/2025-volunteer-instructions.

If you are interested in volunteering, we'd appreciate it very much if you'd take a minute and call us, so we can get you scheduled and keep things organized.

If you're thinking about helping out, please call Cathey and talk it over. Or check out our web page at for a complete description of volunteer opportunities. You can access it directly at: https://www.pigsflybbq.com/2025-free-thanksgiving.

We need help on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. We schedule you for a 2-3 hour shift, so you have time off to spent with your family.

No experience necessary. We need you!

Please call Cathey Sawyer at (304) 645-5401, or email [email protected] and she will get you on the schedule.

People have been asking about placing orders for take-out or delivery. We'll publish a number for that in a week or so.

Thanks!

Thanks again,
Kellen and Mike