Food Connect Colorado

<Photo by Getty Images> If you’re wondering when to toss that old chicken in your freezer, follow these easy guidelines. When it comes to stocking up on food, there’s nothing as convenient as filling up your freezer with a variety of frozen meals and ingredients, since freezing your food is the best way to guarantee freshness, long-term.…

By Hunger Free Colorado In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Hunger Free Colorado began quarterly surveys across the state to find out how the pandemic has impacted Coloradans’ access to food and economic security. Our recent statewide survey, conducted in April by Hunger Free Colorado, found 1  in 3 (33%)  of Coloradans are  food insecure, meaning…

Xcaret Nuñez – NPR Kids and teens in the U.S. get the majority of their calories from ultra-processed foods like frozen pizza, microwavable meals, chips and cookies, a new study has found. Two-thirds — or 67% — of calories consumed by children and adolescents in 2018 came from ultra-processed foods, a jump from 61% in…

Stop throwing your food away. By Alissa Wilkinson  Maybe you know the routine. Every so often, I go through my refrigerator, check labels on the items, and throw out anything that’s a month, or a week, or maybe a few days past the date on the label. I might stop to sniff, but for my whole…

By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN)The US Department of Agriculture is highlighting the difficulty food stamp recipients have in affording healthy meals as it seeks to revise the program’s funding formula. Nearly 9 in 10 participants face barriers to providing themselves and their families with nutritious food, the agency said Wednesday. The most common hurdle, reported by 61% of…

by: Aimee Lewis DENVER (KDVR) — You may have noticed the price of food at your grocery store has gone up over the past year, but it’s not your bread and milk that’s seen a price hike. Statewide, Colorado has seen significant inflation over the past year on all goods, including gasoline and building materials. The price…

By Andy Newman | © The New York Times Co. NEW YORK » By the time Jon Stepanian pulled his beat-up Dodge van out of a Trader Joe’s parking lot on Long Island late one recent afternoon, it contained more than 8 tons of scavenged food: romaine and romanesco, Bulgarian yogurt and Key lime mousse, flats of organic…

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By Annie Lowrey – The Atlantic What’s for dinner? On a planet wracked by rising seas, expanding deserts, withering biodiversity, and hotter temperatures, that’s a fraught question to answer. Food production accounts for roughly a quarter of the world’s greenhouse-gas emissions, and scientists have found that limiting global warming will be impossible without significant changes…

By Daliah Singer – The Colorado Trust Pallets holding oversized boxes of food are lined up in the parking lot at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Lakewood on a 26-degree February morning. Nearly a dozen cars wait in parking spots. More drive in every couple of minutes. One by one, volunteers call them forward—numbered, orange…