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GOOD FOOD POLICY
Good food has the power to build health and improve quality of life. We want to provide our clients with healthy, delicious foods to help them achieve a balanced diet within a limited food budget. This includes maximizing our budget dollars to purchase only nutrient-rich fresh fruits, vegetables and legumes, healthy pantry items and meal supplements for our clients with special needs.
We are committed to the following:
Approved by the Board of Directors , January 2020
Good food has the power to build health and improve quality of life. We want to provide our clients with healthy, delicious foods to help them achieve a balanced diet within a limited food budget. This includes maximizing our budget dollars to purchase only nutrient-rich fresh fruits, vegetables and legumes, healthy pantry items and meal supplements for our clients with special needs.
We are committed to the following:
- Purchasing and accepting large donations of only healthy food with high nutritional value
- Focusing on providing culturally appropriate foods to meet the needs of the clients we serve
- Limiting or removing from our shelves items with no nutritional value
- Providing opportunities to improve food literacy and skills by providing recipes and nutritional information, whenever possible
- Purchasing from local merchants and producers, whenever possible
Approved by the Board of Directors , January 2020