FreestoreFoodbank, Bigg's Team Up To Expand 'Power Pack' Program

CINCINNATI -- A local food bank has teamed up with a grocery chain to help expand a program to help kids eat better.

FreestoreFoodbank created the "Power Pack" earlier this year.

The pack contains kid-friendly, nutritious items such as pop-top dinners, granola bars, peanut butter, fruit cups and 100 percent juice or milk boxes.

The packs are distributed to children on reduced or free lunch programs who often don't have access to nutritious food on weekends.

Beginning Thursday and running throughout the year, all Bigg’s locations will offer customers the opportunity to contribute $1, $3 or $5 at each register, 100 percent of which will go towards funding the Power Pack program.

The FreestoreFoodbank will use the donated funds to build and distribute the Power Packs to hungry children in need throughout the 20 counties in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana it serves.

Currently, the food bank distributes about 1,300 Power Packs a week.