FOOD PANTRIES, MEALS AND SNACKS

Food Pantries

Food pantries distribute bags and/or boxes of emergency groceries to families and individuals. These pantries may be at churches, senior centers, community centers, treatment facilities and child care centers, or they may be mobile. 

Mobile Pantries

Tarrant Area Food Bank supplies a pantry on wheels to selected Partner Agencies.  We take a refrigerated truck loaded with fresh and frozen foods along with some nonperishable groceries to a site hosted by the agency.   There, families and individuals pre-certified by the hunger-relief charity pick up fresh and frozen foods the regular agency pantry can't always provide or that needs to be consumed soon after it is donated to our warehouse.  Read more at Mobile Food Pantries.

Meal and Snack Programs

Meals and snacks are served by agencies such as childcare centers, senior centers, soup kitchens and emergency shelters for family violence victims and for the homeless. Snacks are also served by after-school tutoring programs and addiction recovery programs that provide snacks during group activities.

Kinds of Food Offered

Food pantries and meal and snack programs all have access to refrigerated and frozen foods as well as canned and boxed goods from our warehouse.  Snack programs, for instance, can serve yogurt as well as crackers. Food pantries as well as meal programs can pick up, when available, frozen vegetables and meat products to distribute as groceries and prepare for on-site meals.