As the cost of groceries continues to increase, one Edmonton organization is harnessing the power of bulk buying to ensure its members aren’t going hungry at a critical time every month.

The WECAN Food Basket Society is a non-profit that helps more than 1,000 Albertans with fixed or low incomes get nutritious food when they may be running low on funds in the last week of each month.

The program works by having members prepay for food baskets at the beginning of the month. Then, at a specified day about three weeks later, participants can go to any one of 23 designated depots across Edmonton to pick them up.

The program offers monthly produce baskets to members that contain different kinds of fruits and vegetables for $15. It also offers meat baskets that could contain 500 grams of lean

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