Success StoryFood Insecurity



Food Insecurity

Author: Teresa King

Planning Unit: Meade County CES

Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General

Outcome: Long-Term Outcome

According to FeedingAmerica.org, within Meade County there are over 3,600 food insecure people. Food insecurity is measured by the lack of access to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate foods.

To help with this, Meade County’s Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) Assistant partners with Feeding America Kentucky’s Heartland, Meade County Ministerial Association, and several other community partners to provide a mass monthly distribution of food boxes to over eight hundred Meade County residents each month.

Assisting with this distribution allows the EFNEP assistant to connect with Meade County’s low-income population. The EFNEP assistant includes nutritional information and healthy recipes that can be utilized with the items in the box, which helps with them with their food prep and helps reduce food waste. She has also been able to introduce them to Nutrition Programs at the Extension Office, which some of those recipients have participated in.






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