{"id":348761,"date":"2026-06-24T17:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348761\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T17:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:51:08","slug":"fighting-texas-hunger-campaign-provides-summer-boost-to-south-plains-food-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/348761\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fighting Texas Hunger\u2019 campaign provides summer boost to South Plains Food Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; With schools out for the summer and childhood hunger spiking, Mrs. Baird\u2019s Bread and United Supermarkets are partnering once again to support families in need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The companies\u2019 fourth annual \u2018Fighting Texas Hunger\u2019 campaign is underway, providing a significant boost to the South Plains Food Bank this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Volunteers from Mrs. Baird\u2019s Bread are helping assemble meal kits to ensure that local families and children have food on the table during the summer months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Summer meal kits include a full loaf of Mrs. Baird\u2019s Bread and a full jar of peanut butter and jelly provided by United.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019re honored to partner with Mrs. Baird\u2019s to come together to fight food insecurity over the summer months,\u201d Joey Marcades with the United Family said. \u201cYou know, obviously it\u2019s another longstanding partnership, but that\u2019s core to who we are. It\u2019s helping fight hunger in our areas and our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This year marks the fourth consecutive year for the \u2018Fighting Texas Hunger\u2019 initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; With schools out for the summer and childhood hunger spiking, Mrs. Baird\u2019s Bread and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[124395,6246,319,251,168,170,169,93203,15529,68705,23225],"class_list":["post-348761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-fighting-texas-hunger","tag-food-insecurity","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-mrs-bairds","tag-south-plains-food-bank","tag-spfb","tag-united-supermarkets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}