Tenino Community Service Center has partnered with Tenino Market Fresh, Washington Food Coalition, Heart Association, to provide better understanding of what foods to buy for food banks and for personal choices. They are implementing the SWAP (Supporting Wellness at Pantries) program through a partnerships in Tenino Market Fresh to help spread the word about the program.

Tenino is known for thinking outside the box (hence wooden money during COVID) and the Tenino Community Service Center (TCSC) is no different. Therefore, as TCSC's needed to think outside the food pantry box as we are a drive up and delivery only food bank we went directly to the grocer to help folks make better choices for themselves and for food bank donations. Nutrition is very important for everyone especially those facing food shortfalls at home. These selections are done through Use the Healthy Eating Research Nutritional Guidelines for the Charitable Food System (HER), based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The signs/codes will be shown and explained and then placed on foods that are healthy to donate to the food bank.