Healthy Foods and Wellness
The Neighborhood House has transformed our institutional food services to a farm-to-table model so that our low-income clients can eat, access and learn to use healthy, fresh, locally sourced and sustainable foods to improve their overall health and well-being.
We now serve more than 90% fresh produce (approximately 40% of it locally sourced), locally grown and milled whole grains and sustainably harvested fish and local organic meat in creative menus, with selections such as fresh striped bass from the Gulf of Maine, granola with local and organic oats and butternut squash mac ‘n’ cheese. We serve 400,000 meals annually to clients throughout our programs including three meals a day in our Women's Mental Health Shelter, Early Childhood Center and the Center @ Lenox Hill Neighborhood House.