Nourishing those who need food as medicine

Food Equality Initiative increases access to nourishing food as medicine and provides education to those at the intersection of food insecurity and a diet-treated condition.

FEI’s Impact in 2024

As of October 2024, we have provided food for 1989 nourishing meals.

What is Food is Medicine?

You may hear this term a lot, but what exactly does it mean?

FEI’s Food Is Medicine Access Programs

FIM Home

  • Subsidize groceries - including fresh produce - and home delivery

  • Curate foods for specific dietary needs

  • Provide access to culinary and nutrition education

  • Nationwide accessibility

FIM Pantry

  • Increase diversity of nourishing foods available in Kansas City area pantries

  • Educate pantry staff and volunteers to assist pantry patrons with food as medicine choices that meet diet needs

  • Support and enhance nutrition security measures and policies in food pantries

FIM Advocacy

  • Support food as medicine research projects

  • Push for policy changes for improved food access

  • Advocate for traditionally under-represented populations to have just access to food and wellness

This has been one of the best and most helpful experiences in getting food assistance. As a family of six with four of us having a medically necessary and restrictive diet, getting food from FEI makes putting healthy and safe food on our table manageable. In our family, we say food is medicine and FEI helps us to make that a reality. Thank you!

- M. Moore - FEI Client

Are you from an FQHC, clinic, or hospital that serves a food-insecure population that requires food as medicine? Learn how you can improve patient outcomes with Food Equality Initative.

FREE-FROM PODCAST

Exploring how food is medicine for different bodies and how we can all benefit from knowing more about our food. 

Know the phrase: You are what you eat? Well, that isn’t too far off from the truth. A lot of our health starts in the kitchen. Our bodies need ‘the good stuff,’ but healthy has a different definition for every body.

Season 1: The World of Food Allergy

Season 2: Food and the Planet

Season 3: Creating Healthy Habits

If you have any pitches or comments, send a message to free-from@foodequalityinitiative.org.

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