Backpack Buddies Food List

Backpack buddies provided over 49 000 backpacks of food last year.

Backpack buddies food list. Backpack buddies is designed to provide children from low income households with 10 12 pounds of nutritious kid friendly groceries for the weekend when free school lunches and breakfasts are not provided. Breakfast cereal individual boxes pop tarts granola bars all kinds oatmeal packages protein soup most needed items small to go peanut butter packs tuna small pop top lids pork beans small pop top lids. Backpacking is an exciting way to explore the wilderness but carrying everything on your back can make it difficult to plan nutritious meals and snacks. The food drive kids and their volunteers pulled off another amazing food drive for backpack buddies in 2019.

We are sending out about 1 600 bags each week which is more that we have been doing while school was in session. During these unprecedented days backpack buddies is constantly updating our food needs. At this time the covid 19 food list has the items listed that we need most. Backpack buddy nutritious kid friendly food is provided for the weekend for at risk children in schools grade k 12 and summer meal program sites.

The backpack buddies program needs you in order to serve healthy foods to community children every weekend. It costs only 175 to support a child for a full year in the backpack buddies program. Here are 15 healthy backpacking foods and. Second harvest community food bank.

Read our story on behalf of the students families and staff here at britannia elementary school we would like to send many warm thank you s for your amazing support. We had over 160 volunteers sign up to help fight childhood hunger these volunteers worked in 2 hour shifts at 10 grocery stores located in raleigh cary apex and durham. One in four southeast texas children are at risk. 1 in 5 children in north carolina is at risk of hunger.