Claudia Bonilla Keller knows about food troubles from her days as a University of California, Irvine undergrad in the 1980s. “There was food insecurity then. We referred to it as ‘starving students,’” said the CEO of the Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County. “And it was a bit of point of humor that we would eat 25-cent boxes of macaroni and cheese or ramen.” That’s not an adequate diet for anyone, much less college students trying to complete their higher education. So now Second Harvest’s vast distribution network also includes 17 colleges including local community colleges, Chapman University, UCI, California State University, Fullerton and Vanguard University “because college students need more than empty carbs,” Keller said.

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