For Patients

Food as Medicine

Receive a Monthly Food Prescription from your Doctor

"Within the past 12 months we worried our food would run out before we got money to buy more."

The stress of an empty fridge or bare cupboards can be insurmountable, both physically and emotionally. Rx Food is built on a combination of lived experience (those of us that have experienced food insecurity at some point in our lives) and innovative partnerships (those of us that believe creative problem solving can happen across sectors), and we are working together to feed our community by increasing access to healthy food within a patient’s primary care regime.

"Within the past 12 months the food we bought just didn't last and we didn't have money to get more."

No one should go hungry. We know this, but still struggle to find solutions that can feed us all. Rx Food empowers doctors and other health care practitioners to get at the root of hunger and its widespread effects, by providing monthly good food prescriptions to patients that identify with one or both of the above questions.

Stressed senior woman at home

"You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food.”
– Paul Prudhomme