Lily James Olds

Right.

The food is medicine.

Can you define for those of us just what that encapsulates?

Do you mean how much people want to be buying healthy food to live longer lives like that market?

Is that what's embedded in that?

So that the prescriptions are written by the doctors saying that their patients need a certain kind of food to live healthy, to recover from illness, etc.

So that's what's encapsulated in that $26 billion industry.

Yes.

Fascinating.

Yeah, that's so fascinating and so strategic.

And I'm curious, with that in mind, you talked about you can't scale a volunteer organization in that same kind of way.

How do you think about either scaling or evolving this model, growing it?

What are your plans or hopes for that in terms of continuing to fight hunger in many communities?

I think one question that's been on my mind a bit in thinking about this conversation with you is, you know, you think so intentionally about the customer, the user, and you talked about how that was how you decided to switch this kind of traditional pantry model.

So then on the other side of that, you have the fact that there is so much food waste, right?

Like perfectly good food is often just...

thrown out because of sell-by dates or whatever from a grocery store.

In your kind of systems mind, what are the ways that we could start to connect the dots overall on that in terms of both of those issues?

How can we think about still giving the user the best possible experience of food, no matter their zip code?

And then simultaneously, how do we think about scaling back on food waste or utilizing that food that could be donated in certain contexts?