Originally Posted by Emmie618

It seems to me that many of the recipients who depend on the various food panties (my town as several church-related ones as well as secular ones) would feel deprived if their children could not have cookies and brownies in the name of 'we care about your health.' Many of these families cannot afford to provide their children with things other children have, so limiting their food to what we consider 'healthy' would further penalize these people trying to survive with minimal resources.

I am totally in favor of healthy eating--but it should be the choice of the individual. In my own church's food pantry, people are not 'assigned' food but are free to make their choice from what's available. To fail to have SAD food available and restrict their choices to our opinion of what they should eat would be, in my opinion, both patronizing and uncharitable.