In the year preceding the COVID-19 pandemic, according to USDA, approximately 35 million Americans, or 10.5 percent of US households, experienced food insecurity. Unfortunately, this number has surged since the pandemic's onset, with estimates suggesting a doubling rate. While food insecurity affects a significant portion of the population, it is crucial to highlight a group that often faces this crisis in silence: college students. Their struggles with food insecurity have m

You’re at the grocery store, strolling along the aisles in search of your weekly items. Your body goes through the usual motions of plucking them from the shelves and tossing them into your cart. So entrenched is this routine that it feels like you’re on autopilot. You could probably do it in your sleep. You check out, transport your goodies home to the family ... and end up wasting more than you anticipated. You’ve been here before. Something doesn’t taste the way you imagin