Program works
The Foodbank identifies a school with a high incidence of need for free or reduced-price school meals, then staff at that school identify chronically hungry students.
Then The FoodBank provides a 
backpack filled with two breakfast meals and two lunch/dinner meals for those students to take home Friday afternoon.
Each pack contains a two day supply of food, in kid friendly containers, and includes: shelf stable milk and cereal, tuna, beef stew, mac and cheese or chicken poptops, 100% fruit juice, granola bars and fruit cups.
On Monday morning, the child returns the empty backpack to school to be filled with food and taken home again on Friday afternoon.
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Foodbank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties - 3300 Route 66, Neptune, NJ 07753 - 732-918-2600