Mobile Food Pantry

Our meal recipients don’t have the option of walking to a food pantry or soup kitchen when their cupboards are bare – they are are simply too frail to wait in line or carry bags home. For the homebound, food insecurity is especially perilous. We know that 14% of Citymeals recipients get by on just the one meal a day that we deliver.  

Citymeals' Mobile Food Pantry began a decade ago to provide supplementary food for those most at risk for malnourishment. Each month we deliver hearty staples – like stews, soups, brown rice, whole-grain breakfast cereal and canned fruit and vegetables – to recipients across the city.

We have strengthened this vital program by forging relationships with food pantries and volunteer groups working in the South Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn. Community-based partnerships are enabling us to deliver more food to our most vulnerable neighbors and accelerate local action to fight hunger. 

Last year we delivered 60,291 Mobile Food Pantry meals to supplement our regular deliveries.