Good nutrition and healthy eating are virtually impossible in urban food deserts.
Food pantries require people to take buses or walk to specific locations to obtain food, and a variety of fresh fruit and vegetables are rare.
Neighborhood food pantries, corporate sponsors and volunteers can cooperate to create an optimal national program plan of "Farmers Markets To Go" - trucks with ONLY affordable, fresh produce that will dependably take healthy fruit and vegetables TO urban areas of need, on a regular, predictable twice-weekly schedule, and sell directly out of the back of the truck.
Instead of trying to get bodegas, convenience stores to offer fresh produce at affordable prices - bring the fresh, affordable, SNAP benefit-approven fresh fruits and vegetables TO urban food deserts.