More than 200 volunteers are scrambling to feed thousands of people in Newton County for the holidays.

The annual food basket brigade is seeing record-breaking numbers of applications but not the same amount of donations.  1100 families are in need this year compared to last year's 900.

Cash donations are accepted and are used to buy turkeys and hams and any extra food needed.

"When they go through, they hold up a number and that tells them that there's one in the family, there's two or three or four, and then that determines the amount of food that they get," says Robert Allen, the President of the Food Basket Brigade.  "So they push their cart through just like the grocery store and when they finish at the end we have packers that will pack it and get it ready for them."

This Saturday families will pick up their boxes of food that will last them about two weeks.