Wholesome Students-Nutritious Saugus, Whitsons Foods Solutions provide get-and-go meals to students

Wholesome Students-Nutritious Saugus, Whitsons Foods Solutions provide get-and-go meals to students

In a supplied 7 days, Whitsons Food Service and Nutritious Pupils-Balanced Saugus team up to give seize-and-go foods to up to 250 pupils to support stave off foods insecurity in homes.

Through the federally-funded Seamless Summer season Alternative (SSO) system, any one between the ages of and 21 is qualified to receive no cost meals that cover lunch and breakfast for seven times a 7 days. The application will go on locally till the conclusion of the college calendar year in June.

Whitsons, the foods service provider for the Saugus Public Schools, coordinates logistics for the grab-and-go application that runs out of Veterans Memorial Elementary University on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Participation in the grab-and-go program has far more than doubled given that the colleges closed in March simply because of the COVID-19 pandemic, in accordance to Whitsons Common Manager Jamie Osgood.