Inside Feeding Tampa Bay's mega-kitchen: Fighting hunger across 10 counties

This time of year, food is on everyone's mind and for too many of our neighbors, it's what they don't have that we need to be listening to.

That's where Feeding Tampa Bay steps in. Tampa Bay 28's Michael Paluska got a behind-the-scenes look at the new mega-kitchens at the Causeway Center, a space they've never had before.

The kitchen is never closed, churning out 1.9 million meals each week to families struggling to put food on the table. That adds up to more than 100 million meals per year, serving a million people across the Bay area who are struggling to feed their families.

Since the government shutdown and with ongoing inflation, even people with full-time jobs are turning to food banks for help. The organization has made an additional 60,000 meals to meet increased demand.

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