Bagel Rescue: This metro Atlanta resident is helping to end food insecurity, one circle at a time

Bagel Rescue founder Erin Stieglitz brings a bag full of "recused" bagels to The Salvation Army in Roswell. (Julien Virgin/WABE)

At 8:30 a.m. on an early October morning, an enthusiastic Erin Stieglitz pulls into the parking lot of Goldberg’s Fine Foods in Buckhead.

Her Arcadia SUV is already filled to the brink.

“There’s about what, maybe like 15 bags here,” she observes. “So that’s probably seven, 800 bagels so far.”