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Learn how restaurants, grocery stores, food distributors and commercial kitchens can put food waste to better use and keep it out of the trash with a Food Recovery Grant! Applications are due January 19. Apply for the Food Recovery Grant at buff.ly/48CXciV.

Great to speak with Newsday Media Group about Island Harvest Food Bank’s record year of emergency food distribution. During our last fiscal year (July 2023 - June 2024), we provided approximately 18.7 million pounds of emergency food to our network of 300 member agencies and directly to our neighbors in need. This is a record amount of food, more than we provided any year during the pandemic, and nearly double from 2019. The need for emergency food is greater now than ever before. If you’re interested in learning more and getting involved, please message me. Food banks face more demand, potentially fewer shipments Long Island food banks are seeing more community demand amid concerns a proposed bill in Congress could delay shipments. https://lnkd.in/e8dN9YSz

Come join us this Saturday at the 1913 Restaurant & Bar to support the Nourishing Hope Food Insecure Program. Food Security is a situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. Food Insecurity is when individuals are uncertain of having, or unable to acquire, enough food to meet the needs of themselves or members of their household because they had insufficient money or other resources for food. Those who are food insecure, are unsure where their next meal will come from.   It is highly likely that one of your neighbors is food insecure! In 2022, 37% of low-income Angelenos experienced food insecurity. Nearly 25% of all Angelenos — about 800,000 households — experienced food insecurity in 2022 while rates for Latino and Black residents were three times higher than for white residents.   City of Hope through Nourishing Hope is making a difference! Since October 2023, City of Hope’s Nourishing Hope has donated over 700 pounds of excess edible food to the community.   The winemaker program is providing funding for the collaboration between Nourishing Hope and local agencies whose mission is to ensure the people with food insecurity in the San Gabriel Valley have access to healthy food. Funds will be used to underwrite gasoline for the delivery vehicles and additional soft goods. All other costs (e.g., delivery vehicles, staff to collect and distribute meals, etc.) will be donated by City of Hope through the Nourishing Hope program.   We look forward to seeing you on February 3, 2024. https://lnkd.in/gufUzEH4

That’s why we’ve become the first food company to remove Ultra-Processed Foods (UPF) from our meals – not just in the UK, but in Europe. We provide affordable meals and everyday staples to thousands of households across North Wales and the North-West of England through our Meals on Wheels, school catering and mobile shop services. There is a supply chain to everything we eat. A food-chain, if you will, and the consumer is on the bottom. We don’t get to choose what’s in our food, or even the exact foods we eat; we merely pick from a pre-selected selection. But how much of it is ultra-processed? We don’t get to choose how our food is made, how it’s grown or harvested or preserved. We don’t get a say in what the labels say. We don’t dictate the policies around food production, nor do we ever truly know the effects of what we put into our bodies. So that’s why we’ve taken this step; so that your choices are easier for the food you procure: for schools, for older people; in the workplace and in our communities. Right now, we have the chance to reinvent the chain entirely, to make sure that no one person is worse off than the next. If food is political, then shouldn’t we all get a vote? Find out more on our website: https://lnkd.in/eBUqvXDs #ZeroUPF #UPFfree #ultraprocessedfood #goodfood #schoolfood #schoolscatering

That’s why we’ve become the first food company to remove Ultra-Processed Foods (UPF) from our meals – not just in the UK, but in Europe. We provide affordable meals and everyday staples to thousands of households across North Wales and the North-West of England through our Meals on Wheels, school catering and mobile shop services. There is a supply chain to everything we eat. A food-chain, if you will, and the consumer is on the bottom. We don’t get to choose what’s in our food, or even the exact foods we eat; we merely pick from a pre-selected selection. But how much of it is ultra-processed? We don’t get to choose how our food is made, how it’s grown or harvested or preserved. We don’t get a say in what the labels say. We don’t dictate the policies around food production, nor do we ever truly know the effects of what we put into our bodies. So that’s why we’ve taken this step; so that your choices are easier for the food you procure: for schools, for older people; in the workplace and in our communities. Right now, we have the chance to reinvent the chain entirely, to make sure that no one person is worse off than the next. If food is political, then shouldn’t we all get a vote? Find out more on our website: https://lnkd.in/eBUqvXDs #ZeroUPF #UPFfree #ultraprocessedfood #goodfood #schoolfood #schoolscatering

Did you know that meal planning and pantry inventory can save you money and reduce food waste? Our newsletter shares practical tips to help you make the most of your pantry staples and inspire creativity in the kitchen. Get the details here: https://rb.gy/yoe2rp #MealPlanning #PantryInventory #ReduceFoodWaste #KenoshaCountyFoodBank

So ... just how many people does the Olean Food Pantry serve? Between January 2022 through September 2023, Olean Food Pantry served 39,111 people between Western New York and northwestern Pennsylvania. Learn more in our new blog about the people we serve. https://lnkd.in/e6qGNWMe #OleanFoodPantry #ServeWithPurpose #HungerStats #LocalHungerStatistics #CommunitySupport #EndFoodInsecurity #LocalImpact #CommunityUnity #GrowingNeed #FightHungerTogether #CommunityAlly #ServeWithCompassion

Planning to #movehouse? Here's advice for packing and moving your frozen food. #newdigs

Planning to #movehouse? Here's advice for packing and moving your frozen food. #newdigs

Tor and Lucy grew up on their family dairy farm in West Cornwall. They set up Cornish Food Box in 2010 because they wanted to run a business that would have a positive impact on the rural communities of their childhood. Lucy said: "We want to make it really easy for everyone to buy Cornish food and drink as part of their everyday shopping. We do this in a fair, productive and sustainable way that promotes the growth of Cornish farmers and food businesses. We believe that win-win is possible." Everytime you choose to do even a small part of your food shopping locally with a company like Cornish Food Box, you are choosing a different way - one of seasonal eating, less food miles and supporting small independent producers who grow, rear, catch and produce your food to the very highest standards. Order today and make a difference. https://hubs.ly/Q02r8_yV0 #cornishfoodbox #womeninbusiness #cornwallbusiness #circulareconomy