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Sunday, March 24, 2019

Food Insecurity in MA


What is food insecurity and what does it look like in America?

Food insecurity refers to USDA’s measure of lack of access, at times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members and limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate foods. Food-insecure households are not necessarily food insecure all the time. Food insecurity may reflect a household’s need to make trade-offs between important basic needs, such as housing or medical bills, and purchasing nutritionally adequate foods. 

In Massachusetts, 652,760 people are struggling with hunger - and of them 167,450 are children.
1 in 10 people struggles with hunger.   1 in 8 children struggles with hunger.
People facing hunger in Massachusetts are estimated to report needing $376,759,000 more per year to meet their food needs.

The average cost of a meal in Massachusetts is $3.38. 
Data from Feeding America's Map the Meal Gap 2016 from the Feeding America web site 

Canton Food Pantry- Lovin Spoonfuls 2018 Annual Impact Report



Monday, March 11, 2019

Thank You for Donations

The Canton Food Pantry would like to thank all of the community members and community groups that made very generous donations through this winter season!  You have made a difference in the lives of others...

Bottle Lights from Jim Keevan support the Canton Food Pantry

I want to thank everyone for their help in supporting the Canton Food Pantry and the Canton Area helpline by buying the bottle lights. The demand for them have slowed down a fair amount so I’m going to take a couple months off from them and start back up in the springtime. Maybe I’ll see if I can come up with some other cool ideas too. Thanks again and talk to you soon!  Jim Keevan

Stamp Out Hunger 2019