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Tesco customers taking part in a new campaign to provide meals to children living in food insecurity have enabled thousands of meals to be donated.Over the last three weeks Tesco has given a donation for every piece of fruit and vegetable purchased across all its stores to provide food that its partner FareShare will redistribute to childrens charities.Sales of stacks of strawberries a bounty of bananas and container-loads of cucumbers purchased by Tesco customers mean that over 5000 charities across the country will now be given food to help the 2.3 million children in the UK living in food insecurity.The warm summer weather saw bumper purchases of strawberries cucumbers and bananas allowing Tesco to exceed its target of providing three million meals-worth of food to help charities and community groups supplied by FareShare.Cucumbers were the most popular item on average sold on a Monday throughout the collection with strawberries winning in popularity on Tuesday and Wednesdays.And when it came to the league of fresh fruit and veg buyers outside Greater London it was Essex shoppers that topped the table followed by shoppers in Hertfordshire Kent and Greater Manchester.Tesco has been working with FareShare since 2016 and to date has redistributed more than 120 million meals of food to charities and community groups across the UK. FareShare supports frontline charities and community groups working with children from summer holiday clubs and breakfast clubs to community kitchens and groups which supply food parcels to those facing food insecurity.Buy One to Help a Child is the latest in a number of Tesco community-focussed programmes which are helping to build stronger communities across the UK.