Summer food program helping South Bay families in need shop for groceries

Like many other parents, Diana Bacho shopped at a Lucky supermarket in San Jose on Wednesday morning, picking up groceries for herself and her three children.

Her cart included eggs, meat, a lot of berries and other fruit, cucumbers (which her younger daughter loves) and canned tuna, which she prepares and serves to the kids in tortillas. Bacho was one of the California families paying for her groceries with SUN Bucks, a new state benefit program created to make sure school-age kids are...