Healthy Food pantry initiatives combine hunger relief efforts with nutrition information and healthy eating opportunities for individuals and families with low incomes. Such initiatives offer clients healthy foods such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy products, and lean proteins, and can implement client choice models. Healthy food initiatives can also modify the food environment via efforts such as on-site cooking demonstrations and recipe tastings, and healthy meal kits. Some food pantries and food banks establish partnerships with health and nutrition professionals to offer screening for food insecurity and medical conditions (e.g., diabetes), provide nutrition and health education, and health care support services as part of their healthy food initiatives.

• Catholic Charities
• Churches Outreach Network
• Food Bank
• Pitt County Cooperative Extension
• Pitt County Health Department
• Pitt County Farm and Food Council
• Pitt County Schools
• Pitt Partners for Health