Not having enough food for each person in a household, also called food insecurity, makes it hard to eat a nutritious diet, maintain a healthy weight, and manage diabetes risk. Food banks and pantries provide direct food assistance that can mitigate food insecurity among people with lower income, however, people that utilize these organizations face time, resource, and physical constraints that limit their ability to consistently select and cook healthier meals and the organizations face budget constraints that limit their bandwidth for implementing nutrition programs. This research will test four innovative nutrition programs (nutritious prepared meals, medically tailored groceries in the form of meal kits, culinary medicine, motivational text messages) to identify which are the most effective for supporting healthy eating and food security and the most cost effective for organizations to implement, as an effort to reduce diabetes risk, improve diabetes self-management, and diminish health disparities.
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Pantry provisions, meal kits, no-prep meals, culinary nutrition classes, and text messages
Pantry provisions, meal kits, no-prep meals, and culinary nutrition classes
Pantry provisions, meal kits, no-prep meals, and text messages
Pantry provisions, meal kits, and no-prep meals
Pantry provisions, meal kits, culinary nutrition classes, and text messages
Pantry provisions, meal kits, and culinary nutrition classes
Pantry provisions, meal kits, and text messages
Pantry provisions and meal kits
Pantry provisions, no-prep meals, culinary nutrition classes and text messages
Pantry provisions, no-prep meals, and culinary nutrition classes
Pantry provisions, no-prep meals, and text messages
Pantry provisions and no-prep meals
Pantry provisions, culinary nutrition classes, and text messages
Pantry provisions and culinary nutrition classes
Pantry provisions and text messages
Pantry provisions
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