Sentences with phrase «groceries in a food desert»

This huge ministry — which offers housing for the homeless, food for the hungry, preschool for kids whose families couldn't afford it otherwise, green groceries in a food desert, and a community to belong to — started out with Arloa scooping out spaghetti to a couple of homeless guys in her church's side office.

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The lawmakers asked that the review include consideration of what effect the $ 13.7 billion deal could have on access to healthy foods in so - called food deserts where residents may have limited access to fresh groceries.

Many families that are struggling economically or even just barely staying afloat, don't have the luxury of time to go to a grocery store (if they even have one in their neighborhood - food deserts are a whole different animal that I hope someone discusses here).

Instead, the program is intended to serve the millions of impoverished American children whose parents can not send them to school with a home - packed lunch for a whole host of possible reasons that never seem to cross Parker's mind: the family's SNAP benefits fail to cover a month's worth of healthful food, in light of today's rising food costs; there is only one parent in the household and he or she works one or more jobs and is not home to pack a lunch; one or both caretakers are drug - addicted, mentally ill, physically disabled or otherwise unable to adequately provide for their children; the family lives in a homeless shelter and lacks access to kitchen facilities; the family lives in a food desert where healthful groceries are scarce, etc. etc..

«As we work to change habits and promote healthier food options, we must also do everything we can to create the opportunity of affordable choices,» said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. «Allowing consumers to use their SNAP / EBT card as one might use their own credit or debit card to purchase groceries will lead to lower prices and greater options for those living in food deserts or facing food insecurity, and I urge the federal government to update their regulations to account for ongoing advances in technology.»

While I live in an urban area that has access to farmers» markets and grocery stores, that are so many folks who live in food deserts, without transportation or access to fresh food.

Wendell Pierce — New Orleans native Wendell Pierce opened Sterling Farms grocery store in the Lower Ninth Ward to help relieve food deserts in the neighborhood.

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