City Of Fort Worth: Food Bank, HelloFresh Donate Meals To Those Facing Food Insecurity

Dallas TX

21 May, 2021

5:57 PM

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Press release from City of Fort Worth: May 21, 2021 Tarrant Area Food Bank, the primary distribution source of donated food for hunger-relief partner agencies and feeding programs in Tarrant County, has teamed up with HelloFresh to provide more than 250,000 meal kits to people facing food insecurity in Tarrant County and the 12 surrounding counties by the end of this year. The COVID-19 pandemic worsened food insecurity over the past year, with recent studies finding that there are nearly 550,000 people still battling food insecurity across the 13 counties served by the food bank. The meal kits were designed by HelloFresh through its Meals with Meaning program to provide food-insecure residents with wholesome, fresh ingredients to make complete meals at home for their families. Each meal kit includes a step-by-step recipe card and all the ingredients needed to make hearty meals like chicken sausage pasta with tomato cream sauce and zucchini or cheesy chicken and bean taco skillet. In addition to a meal kit, recipients will also receive a bag of fresh, seasonal fruit. Meal kits will be assembled every Wednesday at the Tarrant Area Food Bank's distribution center in Fort Worth by community volunteers and distributed at their weekly Mega Mobile Market, which takes place at Herman Clark Stadium every Friday from 9 a.m. to noon. "Tarrant Area Food Bank is so appreciative of our partnership with HelloFresh to give nutritious home meal kits to those families and friends who attend our Mega Mobile events," said Julie Butner, president and CEO of Tarrant Area Food Bank. "We are always looking for ways to encourage our food-insecure families to learn how to cook fresh vegetables and incorporate them into their daily meals, which is exactly what Meals with Meaning does as well." HelloFresh operates distribution and fulfillment facilities in Grand Prairie and Irving.     Photo: With the introduction of Meals with Meaning, HelloFresh is providing ingredients to make full meals and recipe inspiration for community members to incorporate fresh produce into their meals.     Get articles like this in your inbox. Subscribe to City News.   This press release was produced by City of Fort Worth. The views expressed here are the author's own.