Houston’s Second Serving: Fighting Hunger and Ending Waste

HOUSTON — Second Servings of Houston (https://secondservingshouston.org/) is Houston’s only prepared and perishable food rescue organization. Since 2015, they have been redirecting unserved and unsold food from retailers, sports venues, distributors, hotels and more to shelters, soup kitchens, public housing and many other nonprofit organizations. The second portion says they collected more than 12 million pounds of food, worth more than $82 million, from more than 400 donors and delivered it to more than 140 nonprofits local since 2015.

As one of the fastest growing nonprofit organizations in Houston, Second Servings provides food that helps feed more than 200,000 Houstonians in need each year. This summer, they plan to provide more than 2,000 Houston families with their choice of fresh produce, meat, dairy, eggs, sandwiches and more, which they pick up each morning from Kroger, Whole Foods Market, Trader Joe’s and others.