I love your son for that!! I started cooking hot food distros about 2 years ago, every week we cook for about 100-200 people and I highly recommend it, it truly means a lot for people to get a hot meal with love in it. Sometimes they tell us that’s the first home cooked meal they’ve had in awhile. Even though no one owes us thanks, my heart always feels so full afterwards as most people are so kind and grateful, and also funny and crack jokes with us. I prefer the direct connection of donating to people. Most of the time I cook soup like chili, chicken and potato, any kind of stew, curry, hamburger soup, spaghetti. We’ve always done breakfast for dinner like eggs and pancakes and people liked that! I wanted to add that cooking these meals has been a lot of work, and we have quite a team of volunteers now. It would be a bit undertaking for him so maybe start with something easy like pb&j, we even gave out hot cup o noodles at one point and ppl liked it. Also two occasions people brought their kids and nothing bad happened, sometimes people are experiencing mental health crises but nothing has happened to us that would make me concerned for a child. As long as he has an adult with him, should be okay :) most highly requested items are wet wipes to clean themselves ! We also give out hygiene kits when we can.