The Cal Poly Food Pantry offers a free resource of ingredients for students to make cheap, filling and easy meals like muffin tin scalloped potatoes.
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How CalFresh cuts are hurting student budgets
The last thing students need is the challenge of paying for groceries. Between federal budget cuts and an overworked system, getting aid for food has never been more difficult.
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Cal Poly Basic Needs closed meal voucher applications within hours. Here’s why
Cal Poly Basic Needs closed applications for free meal vouchers due to a higher volume than usual, which Campus Health & Wellbeing says emphasizes the need for continued funding and expansion of basic needs programs to support food insecure students.
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Cal Poly’s Basic Needs Report highlights prevalence of food insecurity
Aydin Nazmi’s life revolves around food. Not only does he teach food science at Cal Poly, but he also works as a coordinator for CalFresh, a federal program that provides people with a monthly grocery stipend. Nazmi is on the front lines of fighting food insecurity. “When you’re hungry or stressed about affording food, it […]
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Food Pantry provides more to community amid “unprecedented” use by students
Siga aquí para leer este artículo en Español. As a first-generation student at Cal Poly, now-graduate student Oscar Velasco never knew about the food resources, such as the Cal Poly Food Pantry, available to him as an undergraduate struggling with food insecurity. “I just felt that eating Top Ramen was a rite of passage, and that […]
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SLO Food Bank adapts holiday fundraising to pandemic as food insecurity grows
The month of November in San Luis Obispo County would typically mean refrigerated trucks stationed outside grocery stores and San Luis Obispo (SLO) Food Bank volunteers gathering turkeys from holiday shoppers willing to donate. “Really, the excitement of the Turkey Drive is going to your store, purchasing the frozen turkey, taking it out to the […]
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Cal Poly Food Pantry open to all during COVID-19 pandemic
The Cal Poly Food Pantry has is still open to all students, staff and faculty who may be struggling during this time.
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Campus Health and Wellbeing renovates food pantry, opens additional location
White cage-like doors, dim lighting and narrow walkways that made students feel trapped in a corner — that was the Cal Poly Food Pantry before April 2019. “It was literally just a cage, storage closet that was converted into a food pantry,” Director of Wellbeing and Health Education Genie Kim said. One year after receiving […]
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Cal Poly Food Pantry partners with SLO Food Bank
The Cal Poly Food Pantry partnered with the Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County for the first time.