July 7, 2017
Food Access Over the Summer and Seasonal Foods
By Laura Sahd RD, Community Nutritionist Summer is the perfect season to soak up the sun, spend time with family, and get local, fresh produce for those summer night cookouts! Summer is the main growing season for Delaware farmers. Fruits and vegetables abundant during the summer months include: most berries, melons like cantaloupe and watermelon,…
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June 22, 2017
Grab and Go offers free summer meal flexibility
School’s out for summer! For many kids, summer means trips to the beach and pool, but for other kids it’s a time of uncertainty. Uncertainty about where their next meal will come from. When school ends for the year, so does access to free and reduced-price breakfast and lunch programs. To help fill the meal…
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May 18, 2017
Patients praise Food Rx program
Connie could be an ambassador for the Food Prescription Program, a partnership between the Food Bank of Delaware and Beebe Healthcare that assists patients with having access to food through a mobile food pantry. Started just a year ago, patients – at the time of discharge – get free “prescriptions” to visit the Food Bank…
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April 11, 2017
Woodbridge students lend helping hands in their own community
West of Georgetown and just east of Bridgeville is the unincorporated community of Coverdale Crossroads, a rural poverty-stricken neighborhood. On Wednesday, March 29 the Food Bank of Delaware’s mobile pantry truck made a stop at the neighborhood community center. Students from Woodbridge High School’s Community in Schools program assisted in distributing 30 pounds of shelf-stable…
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March 30, 2017
Reaching vulnerable senior citizens through SNAP Outreach
Food Bank of Delaware SNAP Outreach Coordinators, Dan Jackson and Ian Lawrence, have recently spent a significant amount of time conducting outreach sessions at senior centers and senior housing units throughout the state of Delaware. The results of this outreach campaign have been overwhelmingly successful, but have also induced the realization that there are a…
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March 17, 2017
More than a snack: After-school meals benefit hungry children
It’s National CACFP Week! What’s CACFP? CACFP stands for Child and Adult Care Food Program. It’s a program that’s federally-funded by the United States Department of Agriculture to provide healthy meals and snacks to qualified programs. Here in a Delaware, it’s administered by the Delaware Department of Education. The Food Bank of Delaware plays an…
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March 16, 2017
Healthy snacks = happy kids!
It’s National CACFP Week! What’s CACFP? CACFP stands for Child and Adult Care Food Program. It’s a program that’s federally-funded by the United States Department of Agriculture to provide healthy meals and snacks to qualified programs. Here in a Delaware, it’s administered by the Delaware Department of Education. The Food Bank of Delaware plays an…
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March 15, 2017
After-school meals at the Cathedral Choir School
It’s National CACFP Week! What’s CACFP? CACFP stands for Child and Adult Care Food Program. It’s a program that’s federally-funded by the United States Department of Agriculture to provide healthy meals and snacks to qualified programs. Here in a Delaware, it’s administered by the Delaware Department of Education. The Food Bank of Delaware plays an…
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March 14, 2017
After-school snacks: Important piece of student nutrition
It’s National CACFP Week! What’s CACFP? CACFP stands for Child and Adult Care Food Program. It’s a program that’s federally-funded by the United States Department of Agriculture to provide meals to healthy meals and snacks to qualified programs. Here in a Delaware, it’s administered by the Delaware Department of Education. The Food Bank of Delaware…
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March 13, 2017
After-school meals and enrichment at New Knollwood Community Center
It’s National CACFP Week! What’s CACFP? CACFP stands for Child and Adult Care Food Program. It’s a program that’s federally-funded by the United States Department of Agriculture to provide healthy meals and snacks to qualified programs. Here in a Delaware, it’s administered by the Delaware Department of Education. The Food Bank of Delaware plays an…
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