Food & Other Nutrition

Several agencies provide meals to seniors and persons with disabilities. There are agencies that provide food for persons with lower incomes, sites that are set up to provide meals for people wishing to share meals together, and assistance for those who are home-bound and cannot purchase or make their own food.

Congregate Dining
Many subsidized housing sites and senior centers provide community meals around the noon hour for seniors. These sites are able to provide a hot meal and the atmosphere of friends sharing together. Some senior centers to provide culturally-specific meals.

Food Shelves
Food shelves are available throughout the seven-county metro area to provide supplemental and emergency food for people.

Food Support Program
The Food Support program is a county-administered, federal program that assists people and families with low incomes to purchase food and better meet their nutritional needs. The program is not intended to supply all of a person's or family’s food needs. Instead, it is a supplement to help them achieve or maintain independence.

Grocery Delivery
Some agencies deliver groceries to the home-bound and those who are unable to go grocery shopping for themselves. These agencies take orders from their clients and set up times to deliver the groceries. Often they will provide a staff member who can assist in carrying the groceries into the house and putting them away.

Home Delivered Meals
Meals-on-Wheels programs deliver hot meals to home-bound people over 60 years of age. This program is designed to help people stay in their own homes by providing daily, nutritious, hot noon meals. Meals-on-Wheels in the Metropolitan Area can be located at Twin Cities Metro Meals on Wheels (Off Site).

Ethnic Meals
MAAA provides funding for ethnic and culturally age-specific meals. Download a chart of current meal sites.

Updated 07/13/2007