South Florida Food Banks Struggling To Meet Holiday Needs

By Joan Murray, CBS Miami

November 13, 2021

It’s going to be harder for food banks in South Florida to get turkeys on the tables of struggling families this year.

Rising inflation has driven up the cost of everything from poultry to cranberry sauce and that means food pantries are not getting as much in the way of donations.

The pantry of Broward which supplies monthly boxes of food to 500 families including a Thanksgiving box, says this year their Thanksgiving drive yielded just ten thousand pounds of food compared to a year ago when 17,000 pounds of food were donated.

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