Share My Meals

Share My Meals meal recovery program: distribution of Meals donated from local universities and schools, corporations, hospitals and restaurants. The meal recovery program is an innovative and self-sustainable Meals recovery process, approved by the local health departments, that rescues surplus ready-to-eat Meals from food providers and delivers them directly to families in need in the local communities or to community partners also serving the local food insecure population. In 2023, around 62,000 Meals have been recovered and distributed under this program.

Share My Meals buffer program: this program was launched at the beginning of the pandemic in partnership with local restaurants that agreed to prepare and sell Meals at cost to the organization for distribution to food insecure families in the community. In 2021 and 2022, this initiative was significantly expanded thanks in particular to the financial support of the njeda's sustain and serve nj program. The Meals were no longer bought at cost, allowing the participating restaurants to also benefit from the program. This program was phased out in the first half of 2023. In 2023, 9,658 Meals were purchased and distributed under this program.