Rosina Food Products, the authentic Italian family business behind America’s #1 frozen meatballs and frozen pasta products, is celebrating National Meatball Day the way it knows best: by feeding people and investing in the community it has called home for 63 years.
On March 9th, the West Seneca-based company continued its longstanding support of FeedMore WNY, delivering 900 cases of frozen meatballs — 14,400 pounds, or 552,000 individual meatballs across Chicken, Homestyle and Italian Style varieties — to the region’s largest hunger-relief organization. The donation marks the largest single-day food contribution in Rosina’s history and will help provide approximately 100,800 hot, hearty meals for Western New York families.
The entire donation consists of frozen protein — one of the most in-demand and hardest-to-source items for food banks. FeedMore WNY rarely receives large-scale frozen protein donations and typically must purchase meat products to meet community need, a significant and costly budget item. Rosina’s contribution directly fills that gap, helping ensure families have access to nutritious, high-quality protein without diverting charitable dollars away from other critical services.
“FeedMore WNY is incredibly grateful for this generous donation from Rosina Food Products to help nourish our neighbors experiencing food insecurity. Protein is a critical component of a healthy diet and the heart of a complete meal, yet oftentimes it can be hard or costly for hunger-relief organizations to obtain. Thanks to our partners at Rosina, we will be able to provide nutrient-rich, delicious meatballs to our network of food pantries and hunger-relief agencies across Erie, Niagara, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties. We also are thrilled to be able to incorporate these hearty meatballs in meals for the older adults and homebound neighbors who participate in our home-delivered meals program,” Tara A. Ellis, president and CEO of FeedMore WNY, said.
Rosina has been family-owned for three generations. Giving back to the region isn’t a corporate gesture — it’s how their family was raised. “My parents built this business on the belief that if Buffalo takes care of you, you take care of Buffalo, and that value has carried through every generation of our company,” said Russell Corigliano, Sr., president, CEO and co-owner of Rosina Food Products. “National Meatball Day is the perfect time to celebrate what we love most: great food and great people. As we prepare to bring our expanded meatball plant online this spring, we wanted to mark the moment with something meaningful. We’re proud not only to make great food families love, but also to invest in the community that has supported us for so long.”
