Thanksgiving Day doesn’t have to be the only feast scheduled this month. The Flint mobile food pantry is making its rounds through November, offering healthy, lead-mitigating groceries that can make up a nutritional, but filling, meal, even before the carving of turkey. Sponsored by the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan in Flint and the Michigan […]
Comfort food doesn’t need high carbs and added calories when it’s wholesome and delivered close to home. The free mobile food pantry, sponsored by the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan in Flint and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, carries its special brand of comfort to customers once again throughout November at locations […]
Celery, carrots, potatoes and tomatoes don’t often evoke emotion, but Mark Kattola says the Fair Food Network’s Double Up Food Bucks program makes the fresh produce exciting. The president of Landmark Food Centers says the initiative, designed to encourage Bridge card holders to purchase more fresh produce, has been a boon for his two locations […]
Their first concern was the “baby.” Like thousands of parents in Flint, when news of high lead levels in the city’s municipal water broke in Genesee County and, later, the nation, Ryan Patton and his parents John and Sandra feared for their little one’s well-being. Even while enjoying the relative safety of a well source […]