Coming nonprofit corner store finds a way to allow SNAP purchase of hot foods

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Coming nonprofit corner store finds a way to allow SNAP purchase of hot foods
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People will be sold raw ingredients to be taken to a separate area in the building to be cooked.

Alex Imbot and Eli Moraru, business partners and University of Pennsylvania graduates, will be opening a nonprofit corner store that will provide Cobbs Creek residents with a fresh food options.The Community Grocer, expected to open in Cobbs Creek in 10 months, is a creative disruption of the status quo — with a side of potatoes.

U.S. Department of Agriculture rules stipulate that hot food can’t be purchased with SNAP benefits, which are conveyed through Electronic Benefit Transfer cards. Rotisserie chicken and prepared deli foods are also off limits.AdvertisementBut the store will also be selling the raw ingredients of portioned-out meals in kits, like chicken with potatoes and vegetables.

At school, the two recognized they thought alike. “We were college students dedicated to creating a world we wanted to be part of,” Imbot said.“When you come into an African American community and you’re white, it’s not easy,” Reeves said. “But Alex and Eli became part of the fabric, taking kids on trips, refereeing games. They’re special, caring young men. They want to save lives.”

of $100,000, plus $50,000 in living expenses in 2022. Imbot graduated in 2020 with a degree in environmental management and sustainability; Moraru graduated in 2021 with a degree in political science. But would there be trouble circumventing SNAP regulations? The pair cold-emailed the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School to find out.Imbot and Moraru solicited local attorneys, and got enthusiastic responses and free legal help. Similarly, architectis donating his firm’s talents to designing TCG, including a second-floor community room. “An architect chooses clients carefully,” Stokes said. “But with these guys, I said right away, ‘I’m in.

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