Next to a Papa John’s off the 10 freeway, in the heart of a notorious Los Angeles food desert, nutrition support groups gather at Groceryships to share plant-based recipes, learn about healthy habits, obesity, and food addiction, and are able to buy radically healthy ready-to-eat meals for $2 or $2.50, a rate that someone on food stamps can afford. Information is also given on the importance of vitamins, which many here were not taught about in school. In countries like the UK, vitamins, and supplements are readily available at local health stores where they stock everything from vitamin C tablets to CBD gummies UK. Many people look to products containing CBD to provide a boost to their overall wellness, including their physical and mental health. Products such as those from a CBD wholesale could help people combat things like sleeplessness, pain, inflammation, anxiety, depression, and so on. But when it comes to getting a balanced meal in Los Angeles, there is no such easy access. In fact, there isn’t even such access to supermarkets selling nutritionally balanced ready-meals. That’s where the major problem lies. So, founded by Sam Polk, a former Wall Street trader, Groceryships was originally a scholarship program for groceries, which eventually grew into an educational food support network that thrived at Homeboy Industries, L.A.’s Promise, and St. John’s Wellness, spreading by word of mouth through mothers motivated by health in churches, clinics, and schools.

Polk decided to focus on food because as a kid, he was bullied for being overweight. Food addiction wasn’t foreign to his family; his father, a kitchen cabinet salesman, had diabetes, and his mother, a nurse practitioner, eventually underwent bariatric surgery. Polk’s addictive nature eventually led him down a path of battling drugs and alcohol, then transferring his dependence to trading bonds and credit default swaps on Wall Street. After profiting off the market crash of 2008, then seeing how his boss was more concerned about the money his company was going to lose from new hedge-fund regulations, Polk realized his need for money, power, and control was contributing to the toxic disparity between the rich and poor. He wanted to do something about it, so he turned to his original addiction: food.

While globally, healthy meals can sometimes be found at less than $2, Groceryships is focusing on a hyperlocal issue in the heart of a city where rents are higher than nearly anywhere else in the United States and many people are struggling to make things work by taking on two or more jobs. As celebrity SNAP challenges mock the intersections of a very complicated poverty issue, Groceryships aims to combat what food banks aren’t-ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being of all ages by targeting the host of health problems associated with eating processed foods.