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How a smashed cuke salad — and other homegrown dishes — are helping fight hunger at Utah Valley University

By KSL · August 23, 2026 · 1 min read
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How a smashed cuke salad — and other homegrown dishes — are helping fight hunger at Utah Valley University
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Jokes about "starving students" and dorm pantries stocked with nothing but a couple packages of ramen and a half-empty bottle of Tabasco may be campus humor standbys. Amber McGuire has managed the campus food pantry at Utah Valley University — the state's largest higher education institution — since 2014.

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