This summer, food gets harder to come by for Florida families

[Zorro]

Despite a federal benefit to help feed kids when school is out, Florida turned it down again.

Taylour Grant squeezed a dollop of sauce next to the dinosaur-shaped nuggets she had just pulled from the air fryer. She handed the Styrofoam plate to her 14-year-old daughter, April, who lay on the couch under a purple blanket.

In the sink, raw chicken thawed for dinner. Grant, 29, sat beside April but didn’t eat. Tucking her red braids behind a leopard-print headband, she said she usually has just one meal a day so that her kids can eat.

“I make it stretch,” she said.

A mother of four and a nursing student, Grant is doing everything she can to keep her children fed this summer. She’s not alone. For the third year in a row, Floridians say it’s getting harder to afford groceries, according to a statewide survey from No Kid Hungry Florida, a nonprofit that works to increase access to food for children. More than half said that rising food prices have pushed them further into debt over the past year alone.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2025/07/08/this-summer-food-gets-harder-come-by-florida-families/