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    A Grass-Roots Effort To Feed The Poor Is Growing, Burrito By Burrito

    Burrito-making get-togethers are sprouting up around the U.S. to distribute healthy, grab-and-go meals, as well as provide people a fun way to help out and get involved with their communities.
    by Alan Greenblatt Jun 01, 2018 4 minutes
    Growing up, Liam Foley (left) was in charge of dishes and never cooked. He was still able to help chop the onions, though, at a burrito-making project for the poor in San Francisco.

    Jimmy Ryan's recipe for burritos is really pretty simple. It calls for 50 pounds of rice, 50 pounds of beans, a couple of cases of canned tomatoes and several hundred tortillas.

    That may sound like a lot, but Ryan is one of the organizers of the Burrito Project in San Francisco, an informal charity that makes and distributes about 500 burritos to the homeless once a month. On May 21, the group celebrated its second anniversary and rolled its 10,000th burrito.

    "Burritos are grab and go," Ryan says. "You can pack protein in there and some vegetables and they're easy to eat."

    The desire to distribute healthy, easily portable burritos is catching on. Ryan brought the

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