PSA: Food pantries need CASH more than food.
Food pantries can buy significantly more with cash than you can due to specific bulk buying agreements with farms, stores, and distributors, through programs such as Feeding America. So if you buy a 5 pound of potatoes for 3$, they could get the same 5 lbs for 50 cents because they're buying them by the pallet.
Cash for food pantries also helps pay for their utilities such as electricity for refrigerators. Another way to help food pantries right now is to volunteer with them, they are swamped and overloaded, and need all hands on deck. Call and ask how you can be of assistance.
Additionally, right now, while folks have the rest of their SNAP, that cheap food in stores is life-saving. People rushing to buy them clears out the stock and leaves us forced to find other options or go without.
Where a food pantry provides 1 meal, food stamps can provide 9. Food pantries cannot sustainably handle this level of demand. Until SNAP is reinstated, this is a crisis across the country, especially in rural areas.
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