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The church in the next block to me does this program and since it is open to all incomes, we decided to try in once a couple of years ago. It was ok, but not for us. It was $25 for the monthly allotment and I could get better food for cheaper using coupons. Their frozen chicken had additives/flavorings/preservatives in it and we don't like any additives/preservatives and flavorings in our fresh/frozen chicken we like to do that oursleves. Other frozen meats were heavily breaded, which we don't eat breaded stuff. The chicken nuggets were ok for DH and DD, but there was something in them I was allergic to, so I couldn't eat them, I can't remember what it was though. We don't eat fish sticks, I am allergic to them and no one else like them. The frozen veggies were ok. There was a box of generic hamburger helper type stuff which we don't eat. I just remember being disappointed with it.
Then my friend had bought some stuff through them and got a bunch of marinated chicken breasts that she didn't like and gave us 24 chicken breasts and I cooked them for DH on several different occasions (he will eat pretty much anything) and sent them in his lunches for work and he loved them. I couldn't eat them because of food allergies though, but they did smell good baking in the oven!
So I think they have some good things and bad things. I am really picky about what type meats we eat, plus I have alot of food allergies, so I do alot of label reading. So the program was not a good fit for us. I can see if you don't use coupons and aren't too picky or don't have picky eaters in the family it would work for you.
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