{"id":471819,"date":"2026-10-20T18:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471819\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T18:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:10:22","slug":"riviera-students-learn-cooking-skills-while-giving-back-at-coastal-bend-food-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/471819\/","title":{"rendered":"Riviera students learn cooking skills while giving back at Coastal Bend Food Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"

High school students learned how to prepare affordable meals before volunteering to sort food and supplies for families in need.<\/p>\n

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\n Many Riviera ISD students volunteering their time at the Corpus Christi Food Bank in helping serve the community\n <\/p>\n

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CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Students from Kaufer Early College High School traded their classrooms for a day of cooking and community service at the Coastal Bend Food Bank, learning how to prepare affordable meals while helping families in need.<\/p>\n

The students traveled from Riviera to take part in a nutrition class before sorting groceries, household supplies, and other donations for distribution to families across the Coastal Bend.<\/p>\n

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During the class, students learned about healthy eating, budgeting and preparing quick meals, including taco soup. The lessons were designed to teach practical skills they can use at home and when they leave for college.<\/p>\n

One Riviera senior, Abcde Barrera, who also represents the school’s student council, said the experience was about more than learning to cook.<\/p>\n

“I just like seeing, being out here and helping other families, like being able to support them,” Barrera said.<\/p>\n

The senior also hopes volunteering will encourage younger students to get involved in their communities.<\/p>\n

“It’s setting a good example for my future leaders,” Barrera said. “It sets a great example so they can help other people in need.”<\/p>\n

For sophomore Nois Zamora, the nutrition class offered lessons that could help him become more independent.<\/p>\n

“The cooking is one thing I could use like if I go to college to learn how to keep my money,” Zamora said.<\/p>\n

After class, students got a behind-the-scenes look at how the food bank prepares donations for people in need.<\/p>\n

Zamora said the experience helped him better understand the work that goes into helping families.<\/p>\n

“It also shows me like what it’s like to help out the community,” he said.<\/p>\n

Both students said they hope to carry what they learned beyond the food bank, whether that means making affordable meals or finding more volunteer opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High school students learned how to prepare affordable meals before volunteering to sort food and supplies for families…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-471819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471819","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=471819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}