Standing next to dozens of eggs, 59-year-old Maria Paez fills the entire living room table in Cuba with groceries bought online and shipped from Florida. "Receiving this kind of products is a relief for us," Paez says. These days, with a severe economic crisis and food shortages, emigrants are opting to send food to their families in Cuba instead of the vital remittances. This is the case of Luis Manuel Mendez, a Cuban living in the outskirts of Miami, who food, medicine and school supplies to the two children he left behind when he emigrated a year-and-a-half ago. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES