CLEVELAND — The holiday season is all about giving and for the last nine years, for Jarrett Allen, that's meant helping families fill their plates. Allen hosted his ninth annual Meals + Math event at a Cleveland Giant Eagle on Thursday, helping local families stock their cupboards ahead of the holiday while teaching kids valuable life lessons.

As is the case each year, Allen supplied each of the 25 children involved in the event with a $200 gift card and a calculator. Sent off with a cart and a volunteer, the kids could buy whatever they liked, but as they shopped, they had to do the math to ensure they stayed within the budget.

"They have $200 to go spend. They're going to go around the grocery store with a shopping list and they're going to go out and pick everything, but if they go ov

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