The group, Avocados From Mexico, delivered about two thousand kits to make guacamole for grocery store employees Tuesday to celebrate Cinco de Mayo.
Avocados From Mexico sent trucks to grocery stores in North Texas and in New York and New Jersey, which have had the most cases in the country.
The kits include avocados, other ingredients for guacamole and chips. Avocados From Mexico says the other supplies were bought from local suppliers to provide business for local economies.
"An entire communal sense has overtaken the country in a positive way. I think that's very good," says Avocados From Mexico's Kevin Hamilton. "You have seen a renewed appreciation for some really hard workers out there."
Hamilton says the group wanted a project that would thank people who are still ensuring a steady food supply during the pandemic.
"It's not only every day, it's 4 a.m. People come in and get their groceries or they go to a restaurant and get their food. But they don't think about it, necessarily. All of us are guilty of it: you don't think about how it gets there," he says.
Trucks delivered the kits to eight grocery stores in North Texas Tuesday.
Hamilton says additional deliveries were being made to other stores in Texas, New York and New Jersey. He says demand for fresh produce has increased as more people are staying home.
Hamilton says Texans may be familiar with guacamole, but people are experimenting with new uses. Hamilton also says the donation can help introduce avocados to a part of the country that may be less familiar.
"People are going beyond the bowl, if you will, with guac," he says. "They're putting this in all kinds of different things. There's a lot of 'substitutability,' you can substitute it for things with high cholesterol."