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HomeMaking HeadlinesGood News Network: Gift For Families Dealing with Cancer: 6,000 Take-Home Meals

Good News Network: Gift For Families Dealing with Cancer: 6,000 Take-Home Meals

Posted on 09.09.15 by Stacey Antine

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“When families are in this time of stress, it’s s not a time to educate people about what they should be eating, it’s a time to make sure they’re getting what they need,” Antine told Good News Network. “That prompted me thinking, ‘How can I make that happen?’” Antine went to a nonprofit and proposed the idea that was met with a resounding “Yes!” Whole Foods even joined the team effort, donating the ingredients that are whipped into meals by student volunteers from a local culinary school. Since the program started in 2014, 6000 Healing Meals have been distributed at two New Jersey hospitals.”

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