Feed the Frontlines Initiative is a call-to-action to provide meals prepared by local Ridgewood restaurants to first responders and community groups during the Coronavirus pandemic. It is an organized way for people to help feed local healthcare workers and first responders while supporting local restaurants who have been hit hard economically. Feeding the Frontlines is madeRead More
HealthBarn Foundation Awarded Gold President’s Volunteer Service Award
Ridgewood, NJ (November 20, 2019) – HealthBarn Foundation 501c3 was awarded the Gold level President’s Volunteer Service Award (PVSA), the country’s premiere volunteer award program, by Sue Ullrich, Ridgecrest Senior Housing, a PVSA certifying agency, at the 4th Annual Ridgewood Thanksgiving Elder Dinner. Stacey Antine, MS, RDN, Director of the Foundation, accepted the award forRead More
NJTV: Volunteers Provide Healing Meals for Ill Children
“Healing Meals is really a gift of love. My dad had cancer about three years ago and I’m a registered dietitian, my mom is a really good cook and it was really a challenge to make sure that he was eating nutritionally and keeping his weight up,” Antine said. The customized, family-style meals are madeRead More
The Record: Nourishing the Careworn
The Record’s Better Living Section featured: Giving Back: Maywood’s Alice Wright Helps Lead a Free Food Program for Families with Sick Children… “Alice Wright won’t meet the Cortez family or any other recipients. She doesn’t hand them the meals. They won’t know the name of the Maywood resident, who likely had a hand in preparingRead More
NJ Suburban News: Kids Learn to Give Back
“The #helpers book sale was very successful,” Rothenberg said on Monday, Feb. 29, adding that they raised $606. The funds will be split between the two charities that received the most stickers, which were Josephine’s Garden, a garden located at the children’s hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center, and Healing Meals, a food program partRead More
Good News Network: Gift For Families Dealing with Cancer: 6,000 Take-Home Meals
“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 thatRead More
Paramus Post: St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital Offers Food Gifting Program
“Stacey Antine, MS, RDN, founder of HealthBarn USA and director of HealthBarn Foundation, launched this one-of-kind food gifting program in 2014, in collaboration with community partners to assure that all children have access to healthy meals when their nutritional needs are heightened. “We are thrilled to welcome the St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital community into thisRead More
The Record: Healthy after-school snacks that kids will actually eat
“When kids don’t get a satisfying snack, they tend to overeat,” says Stacey Antine, who opened Healthbarn USA in Wyckoff to offer educational programs for children. “We need to move away from thinking that snacks are a processed, packaged food,” adds Antine, suggesting portable items such as whole wheat tortilla with nut butter and jam,Read More
The Record: Healing Meals Launches at St. Joe’s Hospital
“Healing Meals, a program that provides nutritious meals for children undergoing treatment for cancer, serious blood disorders and sickle cell anemia, has launched at St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital in Paterson — the first such food gifting program in Passaic County. Healing Meals, part of the HealthBarn Foundation in Bergen County, began in 2014 at HackensackRead More
Cheesy Lasagna Rolls
This recipe is a really fun twist (literally!) on traditional lasagna. We add silken tofu to this three-cheese pasta dish to boost the protein and calcium. At HealthBarn USA, we’ve discovered that the kids really have fun with this recipe as a group activity. Get ready to dig into this muscle and bone-boosting dish, withRead More