CINCINNATI — Meals on Wheels introduced a brand new partnership with native nonprofit La Soupe to assist ship wholesome meals to extra seniors within the Tri-State.
“We’re very excited,” mentioned Michael Beck, Meals on Wheels’ chief manufacturing officer. “We’ve been working over a 12 months and a half with La Soupe with the intention to type this partnership and what it’s, is we’re taking our strengths and their strengths and placing them collectively to learn our seniors.”
100% of the meals come from rescued meals, that means the meals was donated by native grocery shops and eating places and would have in any other case been thrown away.
Beck mentioned the work bridges the hole between meals waste and meals insecurity.
“(We’re) taking rescued meals, creating meals which are nutritious for our seniors after which we’re offering the infrastructure to get them out to individuals in want,” Beck mentioned.
Because of inflation and rising prices of meals, that want is larger than ever. Rescued meals can assist with that.
“We’re capable of assist scale back that price burden,” mentioned Hannah Griswold, Director of the Meals is Medication Program with La Soupe. “We’re additionally making it for individuals who possibly don’t have entry to meals or they aren’t capable of cook dinner for themselves, they don’t have the tools, the talents, the time.”
This partnership won’t solely assist ship extra wholesome and nutritious meals to seniors, however it additionally offers them with extra choices.
“Specifically for these with cardiac and diabetic diets which are already restricted. It offers them extra choices,” Beck mentioned. “That’s one thing we’ve struggled to supply to them, and we’ve been capable of faucet into the ability and experience of La Soupe with their cooks to broaden our menu choices.”
Via this partnership, 200 meals per week shall be delivered to native seniors.
La Soupe’s founder, Suzanne DeYoung, mentioned this was a pure partnership.
“What they do, they do rather well, however what we do is simply put together the meals. So why create the wheel? Allow them to do what they do, and we do what we do,” she mentioned.
And seniors in want will profit because of this.
