Food and Nutrition Resource Guide

For Homeless Shelters, Soup Kitchens,
and Food Banks

Andrea T. Lindsey and Janice K. Schneider
Food and Nutrition Information Center

National Agricultural Library
Agricultural Research Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture

USDA, ARS, National Agricultural Library

Food &
Nutrition

September 1998

sci TX 360

26

L56

1998

National Agricultural Library Cataloging Record:

Lindsey, Andrea T.

Food and nutrition resource guide for homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and food
banks.

1. Food relief-United States. 2. Pregnancy-Nutritional aspects. 3. Breast feeding.
4. Infants Nutrition. 5. Children-Nutrition. 6. Aged-Nutrtition. 7. Grocery
shopping. 8. Food handling. 9. Americans-Nutrition-Requirements. I. Schneider,
Janice K. II. Food and Nutrition Information Center (U.S.) III. Title.
TX360.U6

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Materials in this section are individual publications that we have included as useful resources:

Appendix A: Food for Me: Citizen Action Fact Sheets for Community Food Recovery

Appendix B: Food Guide Pyramid A Guide to Daily Food Choices

Appendix C: Homeless People: How Can We Meet Their Food Needs?

Appendix D: Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines for Americans

Appendix E: Pyramid Power Food Drive

Appendix F: Sources of Free or Low-Cost Food and Nutrition Materials

INTRODUCTION

This Resource Guide contains food and nutrition educational materials for staff and volunteers working in homeless shelters, soup kitchens, food banks, and other related facilities. This Resource Guide also contains materials that can be used by clients.

This guide is divided into two sections: 1) EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS FOR CLIENTS, and
2) RESOURCES FOR STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS. Topics include general nutrition,
pregnancy and breastfeeding, infant feeding, feeding the young child, elderly, menu planning
and food buying, and food safety and sanitation.

All materials listed in the Resource Guide are available from the source listed. Contact the source to order copies of free materials or to purchase items.

Print materials were assessed for reading level using the WordPerfect 6.1 software program. The
Flesch-Kincaid readability formula is used in this software program.

The Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) of the National Agricultural Library prepared this guide as part of a partnership with the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Inclusion of an organization in this Resource Guide does not indicate endorsement by the USDA, nor does the USDA ensure the accuracy of all information provided by these organizations.

If you are aware of additional materials that would be useful for future updates, please send them to us or contact us at:

Food and Nutrition Information Center

National Agricultural Library

Agricultural Research Service

U.S. Department of Agriculture

10301 Baltimore Avenue, Room 304

Beltsville, MD 20705-2351

(301) 504-5719

Fax: (301) 504-6409

TTY: (301) 504-6856

E-mail: fnic@nal.usda.gov

Web site: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic