Central Indiana food pantries meet needs during winter months

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INDIANAPOLIS — Below-freezing temperatures are expected to stay here in Central Indiana throughout the rest of the week.

This winter weather can be potentially dangerous for those facing food insecurity.

“During the winter months you have high utility bills so if you’re gonna heat your apartment or house, it’s gonna cost a lot more,” Executive Director of Crooked Creek Food Pantry Kathy Hahn Keiner said.

Budgets can be tight in the winter for Hoosier families.

“There’s inflation, grocery prices are high, fuel prices are high, transportation, housing, utilities. People have to make really difficult decisions: do I pay for food or do I pay for my rent?”

Keiner says hunger relief agencies like hers work to ensure folks don’t have to make that decision.

Crooked Creek expects to serve about 50,000 families a year, which is more than double the amount they served in 2021.

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