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
Wyckoff Nutritionist Founds Meal-Delivery Service to Aid the Ill
“Potato pancakes, cheesy lasagna, and an Asian noodle stir fry may be just what the doctor ordered for children suffering serious illnesses and their families. These are just a few of the “Healing Meals” designed to boost the immune system and promote muscle repair, according to Stacey Antine, a registered dietician, HealthBarn USA owner andRead More
Non-Profit Brings Comfort Through Food, Hackensack Chronicle
“Healing Meals is a recently-launched program that brings comfort to families by providing free organic meals to those whose children are undergoing treatment for cancers and blood disorders at HackensackUMC…” to read the full article in the Hackensack Chronicle, click here.
HealthBarn USA Founder Stacey Antine is Today’s Honoree
“Stacey Antine is the Director of the Healthbarn Foundation’s Healing Meals Program, which provides meals for child cancer and serious blood disorder patients and their families. It kicked off at Hackensack University Medical Center and it’s an ongoing program.” To read the full article, click here.
Hungry in the Hospital
“I started giving out the meals last week — I didn’t want to wait until the official launch — and the response has been amazing,” said Lynn Hoffman, executive director of the Tomorrows Children’s Fund. “Parents are exhausted after being here all day with a sick child and this gives them nutritious meals they canRead More