● 501(c)3 · Central Texas
Nourishing food is a right, not a privilege.
Sunday Lunchbox empowers families facing economic insecurity with the access, tools, and agency to cultivate lasting, plant-rich nourishment for thriving children.
Sunday Lunchbox empowers families facing economic insecurity with the access, tools, and agency to cultivate lasting, plant-rich nourishment for thriving children.
In Travis County, 14.4% of people experience food insecurity, and even families with enough calories often lack access to the whole, plant-based foods that build healthy, thriving children. The system feeds kids in economic insecurity cheap, processed food as a default. We exist to break that link.
Every family we serve grows across the three dimensions of our mission, measured over time by our Nutrition Journey Index.
Reliable pipelines from farms, food rescue, and wholesale put whole foods directly into families' hands through customized market box deliveries.
Nutrition knowledge, cooking skills, and chef-partnered guidance help families confidently cook and eat plant-rich on a budget.
Families shape what they receive, build confidence, and ultimately source whole foods independently. True change is family-led.
Customized, direct-to-home market boxes of fresh produce and whole-food meals, now a full family nutrition transformation program built on access, tools, and agency.
Our food rescue and preservation operation transforms surplus produce that would be wasted into healthy snacks like Banana Snax and freeze-dried veggies families cook with at home.
“We deliver nourished, ready-to-learn children by transforming the family food environment at home.”
— Sunday Lunchbox 2026 Strategic Plan
Most programs count meals handed out. We measure transformation. The Nutrition Journey Index tracks each family's growth across access, tools, and agency, so we know exactly where a family is and what they need next.
How it works →We ask the families we serve what's working. Here's what they tell us.
“Sunday Lunchbox has been the biggest stress reliever in my life. With food prices constantly in flux, it's hard as a single mother to choose between meat and fresh fruits and veggies. I don't have to make that choice with this program.”
“It was perfect. Everything in the box will be used, and the perfect amount of produce.”
“My babies love the banana snacks. They're a crowd favorite, gone the same day.”