“When you’re hungry, you don’t care about eating healthy.” It’s a myth so often repeated that it’s become entrenched in our culture – the idea that families living with food...
Salad or soda. Carrot sticks or potato chips. Chicken soup with rice … or chicken nuggets with fries. When it comes to nutrition, not all choices are created equal. Parents want their kids to grow up healthy and happy, and...
Recently, State Representative Susan Plasencia (R-FL 37) visited Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida to announce $561,776 in state appropriations funding. The money will support the Food Cost Mitigation Project, which will help the food bank continue feeding hope...
Despite a strong economy, promising outlook, and growing population, Florida continues to wrestle with a hunger crisis that will affect one in eight people – and one in five children – at some point this year. It’s a serious problem...
