Did you know that for many children there is a 68 hour hunger gap from Friday afternoon to Monday morning?

Family Weekend Backpack Meals build on our successful Power Packs program and include even more meal servings and family sized meals. Family Weekend Back Meals contain an average of 27 kid-friendly, nutritious, shelf-stable meal servings that meet or exceed the USDA recommendations for protein, calories and carbohydrates for elementary aged children.

These weekend backpack meals are hand delivered to the backpacks of children every Friday at no cost to participating schools, after school programs, and community organizations. With nutritious food, we will be providing access to education and creating ladders out of generational poverty.

Powerful Community Partnerships Working to Help Solve Childhood Hunger

Feeding Dreams, in partnership with United Way of Palm Beach County, Rotary Club of Downtown Boca Raton, and other supporters supplies Family Weekend Backpack Meals to low-income families in Palm Beach County who can’t afford or lack access to affordable, healthy food.

When conflict, poverty, or other challenges make it hard for families to secure food, children bear the brunt. Family Weekend Backpack Meals contain 24–30 meal servings, ensuring both kids and their families have enough to eat through the weekend.

Our Family Weekend Backpack Meals program is part of the Palm Beach County Hunger Relief Plan, an initiative launched in 2015 by the United Way of Palm Beach County and the administrative leadership at Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners to address and solve hunger issues in the community.

Family Weekend Backpack Meals Contain Powerful Nutrition

Menu #1

(Nut-free)

Apple Sauce (3.2 oz pouch)
Nutrigrain Bar
Honey Pepper Turkey Stick
Chicken (5 oz can)
Lentil Beans (16 ounces)
Rice (16 ounces)
Family Meal*

Menu #2

Apples Sauce (3.2 ounces pouch)
Nutri-Grain Bar
Peanut Butter Pouch
Peanut Butter Pouch
Honey Pepper Turkey Stick
Chicken (5 ounce can)
Pinto Beans (16 ounces)
Rice (16 ounces)
Family Meal*

Menu #3

Nutri-Grain Bar
Peanut Butter Pouch
Peanut Butter Pouch
Honey Pepper Turkey Stick
Honey Pepper Turkey Stick (or another flavor)
Tuna (5 ounce can)
Spaghetti (16 ounces)
Red Sauce (15 ounces)
Family Meal*

Menu #4

(Nut-free)

Graham crackers (1 ounce bag)
Go Go Yogurt (3 ounce pouch)
Nutri-Grain Bar
Honey Pepper Turkey Stick
Honey Pepper Turkey Stick (or another flavor)
Tuna (5 ounce can)
Spaghetti (16 ounces)
Red Sauce (15 ounces)
Family Meal*

*The Family Meal rotates between macaroni and cheese, pasta and red sauce, chicken rice and vegetable soup, cinnamon oatmeal, lentil and rice, soy chicken and rice.

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