Green Chef partners with nonprofit to address food insecurity

BOULDER — Green Chef, a Boulder-based company that provides healthy meal kits, has partnered with We Don’t Waste, a Denver-based food-recovery and hunger-relief organization, to support Denver-area community members facing food insecurity.

Beginning in November, Green Chef will sponsor all of the food and beverage items at one of We Don’t Waste’s mobile markets. The Green Chef-sponsored market will be open monthly, enabling approximately 200 families to pick from a variety of fresh produce, proteins and dairy items, at no cost.

“We started the mobile markets in 2019 to better reach the Denver metro’s most underserved communities, and we’re grateful to our long-time partners at Green Chef for providing all of the grocery items for one of those markets each month,” Arlan Preblud, founder and executive director of We Don’t Waste, said in a written statement. “One in three Coloradans faces food insecurity, and as the price of groceries continues to increase, more and more families are impacted. Through this partnership, we’re able to ensure people will receive the nourishing food their families need.”

“At Green Chef, we are committed to making fresh food and high-quality ingredients accessible to everyone,” said Jeff Yorzyk, Green Chef’s senior director of sustainability. “We are thankful to We Don’t Waste for partnering in this Community Fresh Market effort to reach more Coloradans in need. Our hope is that this farmers market format not only provides food-insecure families with fresh ingredients but also empowers them to make nourishing meals at home.”

Green Chef, which operates a production facility in Aurora and has a corporate office in Boulder, delivers healthy meal kits to customers in their own homes.

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