The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if providing healthy meal kits to food insecure families can help lessen the social and emotional impacts of food insecurity on kids and their caregivers in rural Maine. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. Is receiving healthy meal kits delivered to homes feasible and acceptable to rural Maine families? 2. Does receiving meal kits (along with an app to help learn how to cook the food) improve food insecurity and diet quality in rural Maine families? 3. Does receiving meal kits (along with an app to help learn how to cook the food) improve family function in rural Maine families? We will look at caregivers' stress, family conflict, household chaos, and child emotional-behavioral symptoms. Participants will: 1. Recieve and prepare a dietitian-designed meal kit with 10 meals per week for 4 weeks. 2. Receive free culinary medicine education via an app that they will continue to have access to after the study ends. 3. Complete a 1-1.5 hour virtual visit at the beginning of and end of the study.
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USDA Household Food Security Survey
Timeframe: Baseline and 5 weeks
Rapid Prime Diet Quality Screener
Timeframe: Baseline and 5 weeks
Confusion, Hubbub, and Order Scale
Timeframe: Baseline and 5 weeks
24-Hour Food Recall
Timeframe: Baseline and 5 weeks
Cooking and Food Provisioning Action Scale
Timeframe: Baseline and 5 weeks
Parenting Stress Index - Short Form
Timeframe: Baseline and 5 weeks
Perceived Stress Scale
Timeframe: Baseline and 5 weeks
Alabama Parenting Questionnaire - Short Form
Timeframe: Baseline and 5 weeks
Family Environment Scale - Fourth Edition
Timeframe: Baseline and 5 weeks
Child Behavior Checklist
Timeframe: Baseline and 5 weeks