Featured Product: Crider Deluxe White Chicken in Water – A Protein-Packed Pantry Essential
When your programs need high-protein options that don’t require refrigeration, shelf-stable chicken is one of the hardest categories to get right. The product needs to taste good, store easily, and work across multiple meal formats without requiring a kitchen.
From Pilot to 250 Boxes a Week: How Feeding Westchester Built a Medicaid-Funded Food As Medicine Program
Every Wednesday morning at Feeding Westchester’s distribution center in Elmsford, New York, DoorDash drivers line up to collect boxes of shelf-stable, medically tailored food. Each driver takes ten boxes. Each box goes to a different household. Every box contains enough nutritious food for one person for an entire week covering three meals a day for seven days.
Partners In the Mission Spotlight: Smith Transport Warehouse
When food banks order from a VAFS mixing center, they aren’t just purchasing smaller quantities of a wider variety of goods. They’re purchasing the logistics infrastructure that makes those smaller unit sizes possible: warehousing, quality inspection, inventory rotation, and order verification. Every pallet. Every expiration date. Every order.
VAFS Converts Wayland Facility to Dedicated Food Box Assembly Center
After record demand during last fall’s federal funding disruptions, VAFS dedicates Michigan facility exclusively to food box assembly
Featured Product: American Beauty Chicken Noodle Soup – A Smarter Staple for Hunger Relief
The American Beauty Reduced Sodium Chicken Noodle Condensed Soup from Morgan Foods isn’t your standard grocery aisle soup. This formulation was developed in partnership with VAFS for the food bank community to meet a specific target: achieving a green rating on the HER (Healthy Eating Research) scale while retaining the familiar comfort-food taste profile of a family favorite.
Head of The Table Guest: The Food Depot
Closer to the Work: How Direct Distribution Changed Everything About How This Food Bank Buys.