INDIANAPOLIS — The Eskenazi Health Fresh for You Market on Wheels is now open, a mobile grocery store/food pantry hybrid that will be parked at various locations throughout the city helping eliminate barriers in obtaining healthy food.
The Eskenazi Health Fresh for You Market on Wheels serves as a self-sustaining model to address food insecurity. Open to the public, patrons are welcome to shop the Fresh for You Market on Wheels for a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables, frozen proteins and produce, milk, bread, pantry staples, and more. In partnership with The Kroger Co., the Fresh for You Market on Wheels is stocked with Kroger-brand products priced at affordable rates. Proceeds from traditional sales directly benefit the Eskenazi Health Fresh for You Market voucher program. At each clinical visit, patients who screen as food insecure are provided with vouchers for the Fresh for You Market, allowing them to shop the market for food items free of charge.
The Fresh for You Market on Wheels is a former Indianapolis city bus donated by IndyGo. The 40-foot-bus has been innovatively transformed into a small grocery store, complete with fridges, freezers, grocery shelves, a filtration system, and a kitchen where an on-board chef will prepare hot, made-to-order food and host live cooking demonstrations, showing how to use items found on the bus in a variety of recipes.
Each weekday, the Fresh for You Market on Wheels will be parked at a different location in Indianapolis providing accessibility for community residents. Locations were selected based on the highest need among Eskenazi Health patients who identify as food insecure and for those living in areas with little to no access to traditional grocery stores.
The Fresh for You Market on Wheels is open daily from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the following locations:
• Monday: Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center, 3171 N. Meridian St.
• Tuesday: Eskenazi Health Center West 38th Street, 5515 W. 38th St.
• Wednesday: Eskenazi Health Center Forest Manor, 3840 N. Sherman Dr.
• Thursday: Community Alliance of the Far Eastside (CAFE), 8902 E. 38th St.
• Friday: Edna Martin Christian Center, 2605 E. 25th St.
