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Food Resources

Food Resources

This list will be updated as needed to reflect current changes.

Portsmouth/Kittery:

  • Gather Food Pantry: www.gathernh.org/
  • Operation Blessing:  www.ob.org/
  • Black Trumpet is giving away free bagged lunches on Mondays from 12pm to 2pm: www.blacktrumpetbistro.com/
  • Vida Cantina is making meal kits available to SNAP recipients.
  • Common Table @ St. John's Episcopal Church has free lunch from 12pm to 1pm on Thursdays: www.stjohnsnh.org/common-table
  • Seacoast Community Lunch @ Middle Street Baptist Church has free lunch from 12pm to 1pm on Wednesdays: www.middle.st/lunch
  • Footprints Food Pantry (Kittery): www.footprintsfoodpantry.org/

Dover:

  • Community Action Partnership of Strafford County (Dover & Rochester): straffordcap.org/
  • Dover Food Pantry: nhfoodbank.org/locations/dover-food-pantry/

Somersworth:

  • Community Food Pantry: www.somersworthnh.gov/welfare-human-services/pages/community-resources
  • Fold’d has a board of prepaid meals. People can pick one and eat, dignity included (Somersworth): https://folddnh.com/
  • Lydia's House of Hope: lydiashousenh.org/food-pantry/

Durham:

  • St. Thomas More Food Pantry: https://www.stmdurham.org/about-us/food-pantry
  • Cornucopia Food Pantry: https://waysmeetcenter.org/programs/
  • UNH Staff and faculty can use Cat’s Cupboard, not just students: https://www.unh.edu/dining/cats-cupboard 

Rochester: 

  • Community Action Partnership of Strafford County (Dover & Rochester): straffordcap.org/
  • Share Fund Food Pantry: www.sharefund.org/qualify-for-food-pantry
  • First Church Congregational Food Pantry: www.first-ucc.net/outreach

Surrounding Areas:

  • York Community Service Association Food Pantry (York): www.ycsame.org/food-pantry
  • St Vincent de Paul of Exeter (Exeter): svdpexeter.com/
  • St Vincent de Paul of Hampton (Hampton): svdphampton.com/food-pantry/
  • Seeds of Faith Food Pantry (Rollinsford): lydiashousenh.org/contact-us/
  • Neighbors Food Pantry (Eliot): eliotbaptistchurch.com/neighbors-food-pantry
  • South Berwick Community Food Pantry (South Berwick): www.sobocentral.org/foodpantry.html
  • Lasagna Love (sign up for a home cooked meal): https://lasagnalove.org/request-a-meal/
  • The Too Good to Go app lets you find businesses (grocery stores, convenience stores, restaurants) that sell mystery baskets at very low cost at the end of the day to help reduce food waste.
  • A map of little free pantries is available at: https://mapping.littlefreepantry.org
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