Needed: "Life" Cereal For The Cambridge Pantry Packpack Program," for 61 Children Of The Pantry's Families.

Today is the second day of the weekend campaign to get cereal and oatmeal packs to the pantry this week so the backpacks for 61 Pantry children can be filled with vitamin and energy food. The pantry has enough of most of the backpack items (thanks for the oatmeal you sent yesterday). The significant need now is for “Life” Cereal and some oatmeal packs.

Sarah says the pantry is in urgent need of two items, in particular, to fill the backpacks this coming Thursday:

Life Breakfast Cereal, Cinnamon, 13 oz boxes (3 Pack), $8.62.

Quaker Instant Oatmeal, Gluten Free, Maple & Brown Sugar, Heart Healthy, Individual Packs, 1.51 Oz (Pack of 8), $2.99.

Every Thursday, we try to ensure that each child receives a Life Cereal box, a protein-rich cereal that contributes to their nutritional needs.

Students from Cambridge Central High School (photo below and above) volunteer to collect the backpacks and bring them to the school.

I did some homework: Life Cereal Boxes for children contain whole grain oat flour, sugar, corn flour, whole wheat flour, calcium carbonate salt, cinnamon, disodium phosphate, caramel color, reduced iron, niacin amide, zinc oxide, yellow 6, Yellow 5, Thiamin Mononitrate, Fed 40, Riboflavin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Natural flavor, Folic Acid.

An independent food health review described Life Cereals this way:

Life is a dry breakfast cereal made from oats, corn, wheat, and rice flour. “Quaker promotes it as a heart-healthy choice due to the “heart-healthy whole grains” in the ingredient list. It is nutritious for everyone, especially growing children.”

These children are often malnourished and need energy boosts, especially those in food-deprived homes. Nutritious and organic food is too expensive for their parents or the pantry’s resources. The food banks rarely, if ever, send it, and Sarah fights for it because it provides vitamins most of these children seldom get. The goal is to ensure this cereal is in every one of those 61 packs. Thanks for following this and considering it.