SAN DIEGO -- Led by Chairman Bill Horn, county supervisors unanimously approved spending $150,000 to help get a fledgling food-assistance program for poor seniors off the ground Tuesday.

Supervisors approved giving the money to "Angel's Depot," an assistance program that hopes to open its warehouse doors in Vista in June, and to create and distribute boxes filled with enough nonperishable food to last seniors a week.

Susan Hall said each box will weigh less than 20 pounds and be packed with enough nutritionally balanced, unprepared food to give poor seniors enough food to prepare for a week at a time.

She said the Angel's Depot hopes to pack and send out 20,000 boxes in its first year -- and to reach many of the 50,000 seniors that live below the poverty line in San Diego County.

Horn said elderly people living below the poverty line often end up choosing between buying their medicines and buying food.