Each year an estimated one in eight children in the United States does not get enough to eat.
Poor diet leads to poor health, low work productivity, and impaired mental functions.
Working parents, single homemakers, pregnant teens, and youth from rural and urban communities are taught in small groups or individually. ERIB is often used in a delivery model called the SuperCupboard. SuperCupboards help chronic users of emergency food systems. A SuperCupboard is a place where caregivers and homemakers can receive nutrition and life skills education, prepare and eat a hot meal, and receive food and cooking experience to prepare the same meal at home. The Eating for a Better Start curriculum targets pregnant teens but has also been adapted to reach pregnant adults, nonpregnant teens, husbands, and boyfriends.