Food banks have taken an initiative to boycott junk foods and the food with high sugars as they are risking life. The food banks are of the opinion that their job is not only to provide the food to needy but it is their prime responsibility that they provide the right type of food. So they have announced a ban on supplying sheet cakes, holiday candy, and other processed items.
These foods have less nutritional values and are a sort of poison people stuff their stomachs with. There has been an epidemic rise in diabetes, cardiovascular problems.
All this increase is due to intake of more sugary calories present in the junk food, NPR org says. The food pantries are saying no to every call of restaurants, grocery stores and bakeries for the orders of things like cakes and cupcakes. The aim is to limit the use of food with more sugars and calories. The effort is to shift the preferences to healthier options.
Food pantries are being helped in their initiative by various schools. Healthier food items orders are given to these food banks from the school cafeteria.These donations are inculcating a sense of helping others in children's young minds. Almost all the leftovers are donated to these food banks, these include items of milk yogurt, hummus, fresh fruit, according to Capital Area Food Bank.
It has been found out that this strategy makes no food to go to waste and it is a big improvement. Children often do not consume all of the food on their tray and usually a mountain of food used to go to waste.
But now, the unused food is donated and needy are helped to get an access to healthy nutritional food. The food banks are happy to supply right type of food and are grateful to children for these donations.The clients are satisfied too.
