Backpack Food Program Menu

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Backpack food program menu. Funded by grants and community donations the backpack food program provides a weekend s worth of healthy well balanced meals in small bags. Add your own milk. It s also possible to bring some fresh produce. Consider including a baguette nuts and seeds and hard cheeses such as parmesan or gouda.

Backpack food program weekend menus page 1 feeding our communities partners updated. Most fresh foods are good for one day or two inside your pack depending on the. Give help get help. The saying it takes a village to raise a child became even more evident the last several weeks.

Menu 2a two day weekend breakfast 1 instant oatmeal. When schools closed we responded. The bags are given to the students teachers every thursday to be discreetly placed into the child s backpack on friday. To see the program in action watch our video.

When students leave school for the weekend the last thing they should have to worry about is how they are going to get their next meal. Day 1 menu breakfast 1 bowl of cereal. Montgomery food for kids backpack program is a grassroots organization working to break the cycle of generational poverty by ensuring that children have enough food to eat even when not at school. Our backpack program weekend food supplies do not only include an extensive menu but it can also be readily optimized to add or subtract gluten or other allergens.

Home how we help weekend backpacks. Bpb stocks them with fresh food canned and dry goods proteins fruits vegetables pastas and rices breakfast foods cereal oatmeal etc snacks shelf stable milk 100 fruit juice and other food items. Add hot water to oatmeal in bowl stir. Here are some of the menus we have to choose from.

Thanks to feed more s backpack program weekends are worry free for our region s kids. September 9th 10th september 30th october 1st october 21st. 6 26 2014 our food packs contain breakfast lunch and a snack for each day that school is not in session. The backpack weekend food program inc.

Our menu ranges from ramen noodles to crackers and cinnamon toasters including a variety of cheese oriented products that are bound to leave the kids craving for more. Bwfp is dedicated to providing healthy non perishable meals to students to take home on the weekend during the school year so they can come to school the following week better nourished and ready to learn. Why we do it.