Mr Brown, a 24-year-old student at Edinburgh Napier University, has been meal prepping for years and says it’s “one of the healthiest ways to budget”. In fact, prepping your meals in advance can save up to 50% in costs. We’ve listed four expert ways to cut down on food costs and eat healthier, too. The […]
Southern Maryland Sierra Club and the Rotary Club of Lexington Park are proud to announce a partnership to help address issues of food insecurity in St. Mary’s County. Since 2020, the Southern Maryland Sierra Club has been working with local houses of worship and non-profits around the region to build vegetable gardens to provide fresh, […]
The organization has published a new position paper outlining six recommendations to tackle food insecurity that leads to nutrition insecurity, which in turn affects diet-related conditions such as diabetes, obesity, coronary artery disease, certain types of cancer and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. In medicine, there is a growing understanding that social drivers of health affect the health […]
In 2019, 35.7 million people relied on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to eat, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, but enrollment had been steadily declining since 2013. That trend went out the window when the pandemic reversed the tide and swelled the rolls of America’s largest food-security program to 41.5 million in […]
The Montgomery County Board of Education finalized a new policy Tuesday that manages student school lunch debt, and it removes a proposed penalty that would have provided students who owe money with a different meal from their peers. The board voted unanimously in favor of the new policy, which will be in effect beginning July […]
You’re a dedicated compost user. Maybe you even subscribe to an ugly produce service. But for home cooks who want to use every last piece of produce, meat, or dairy, how can unwanted scraps be turned into delicious meals? We’ve got a few ideas. Transform bones into bone broth, fruit into shrubs, and celery into […]
Wait, what? If you’re like us, you’ve probably said those words at the grocery checkout recently. Staples like eggs and milk continue to get more expensive (egg prices were up 92% between March and April, according to a Food Institute analysis of USDA data). Peanut butter is getting recalled and things like sugar, beef and […]
The Maryland Food Bank has launched pilot programs targeting unemployment and underemployment, two of the leading causes of food insecurity, and increasing access to healthy, shelf-stable items, the organization said Tuesday. Using a grant from the group Feeding America, the Workforce Development Partnerships program connects Baltimore-area residents with social services and job training in industries […]
We all know that life can get stressful- having to work, get your kids to school/extra curricular activities, etc.- and the last thing you want to do at the end of the night. Crockpot recipes are the easiest to whip up when you’re short on time but are also as delicious as a meal that […]
With inflation hitting 7.9 percent in February (a 40-year high) and food costs soaring the same amount year over year, getting groceries for you and your family is a lot pricier these days. Just how much depends on which state you live in. Food prices tend to be local, driven by supply and demand. That […]
