Terms of Use
How Porch Supper works in Freer, Texas — who may use it, what a meal request and a meal offer mean, and who is responsible for food safety. Please read the food-safety disclaimer below before cooking or accepting a meal.
Last updated November 6, 2026.
Who may use Porch Supper
Porch Supper is open to residents of Freer, Texas only — both the families asking for meals and the neighbors offering to cook. When you create an account you confirm that you live in Freer, Texas.
You must use your own name and a way for the other person to reach you. Accounts that misrepresent who they are or where they live may be removed.
Requests are limited to 1 to 10 meals. Porch Supper is for households that need help with groceries and cooking, not for resale or commercial use.
What a meal request and a meal offer mean
A request is a neighborly ask, not a paid order. No money changes hands through Porch Supper, and no one should ask a family for payment, reimbursement, or favors.
When a neighbor accepts a request, they agree to cook the number of meals the family asked for and leave them in an ice chest on their own porch, where the family comes to pick them up. If they can't make it, they release the request so another neighbor can take it.
When a family accepts a meal, they confirm they picked it up. Either side can cancel or release at any time — life happens, and no one is penalized for it.
Porch Supper does not screen, vet, or guarantee anyone. We list what people tell us; you decide who you're comfortable cooking for or receiving food from.
Food safety is on the people cooking and receiving
The cook is responsible for what they prepare: follow ordinary home food-safety care (wash hands and produce, cook food thoroughly, keep hot food hot and cold food cold, and store food before and after cooking).
Tell the family what is in the meal. Porch Supper can check your planned ingredients against the family's stated allergies and dietary needs and flag possible conflicts, but that check is a helper, not a guarantee. It can miss things, and only you know exactly what you cooked.
The family should check the meal before anyone eats it, especially for allergies. When in doubt, don't serve it.
Use clean, food-safe containers, and label anything that needs refrigeration. Meals left in an ice chest on the neighbor's porch are meant for short waits — the family should pick them up promptly.
Do not share home-canned, homemade-preserved, or previously frozen-and-thawed food unless you and the family both agree it is fine. Do not include alcohol or medication in a meal.
Food-safety disclaimer: you accept the risk of shared meals
Every meal on Porch Supper is home-cooked by a private neighbor — not by a restaurant, a licensed food facility, or a commercial kitchen. Porch Supper does not prepare, handle, store, inspect, test, or deliver any food. We cannot verify what is in a meal, how it was cooked, how long it sat outside, or whether it was handled safely.
By using Porch Supper, whether you are cooking a meal or receiving one, you accept that risk. You agree that Porch Supper, Stella Uribe Stevens, and everyone who helps build or run the app are not liable for any illness, food poisoning, allergic reaction, or other harm caused by food shared through the app, or by the app's ingredient checks and warnings. This applies to you, your household, and anyone you feed.
If you are pregnant, very young, elderly, immunocompromised, or living with a serious allergy or medical condition, talk with a healthcare provider before eating food shared through the app, and do not eat a meal you cannot identify.
Respect and privacy
Families never give their home address. Meals are collected at the neighbor's porch, so a family's address is not collected or shared at all.
A neighbor's pickup address, ice-chest instructions, and phone number are shown only to the family whose request they accepted. Don't share them with anyone else, and don't come to the door unless the family invites you.
Use the contact details only to coordinate the meal. Don't use them for anything else.
Treat what you learn about a household — why they need help, who lives there — as private.
Your responsibility, and our limits
You use Porch Supper at your own risk. You are responsible for your own conduct, the food you prepare, and the food you accept.
Porch Supper is provided as-is. To the fullest extent the law allows, Stella Uribe Stevens and anyone who helps run Porch Supper are not responsible for illness, injury, allergic reactions, property loss, or any other harm arising from meals arranged here, or from food-safety checks the app produces.
We may pause or remove accounts or requests that put people at risk, and we may change how the app works.
If something goes wrong, tell us so we can help and keep others safe.
Questions
Questions about these terms, or a meal that went wrong, can be raised through the app.
These terms apply to use of the Porch Supper app in Freer, Texas. They are not legal advice, and they don't replace rules from the Texas Department of State Health Services or your local health authority.
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