{"id":8591,"date":"2023-09-05T16:15:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T20:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/counseling\/?page_id=8591"},"modified":"2025-09-10T13:59:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:59:27","slug":"food","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/counseling\/food\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Security"},"content":{"rendered":"

Food Security<\/h1><\/div><\/div>
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On Campus Resources<\/h1>\n\n

Free Farmer’s Market<\/strong><\/a>
The Free Farmers Market (FFM) offers all students access to fresh, locally-grown produce from URI farms.
Thursdays: 11:30 AM \u2013 1:00 PM (on the Quad)
Thursdays: 2:30 – 4:00 PM (Outside Mackal\/Tootell)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nutrition Department’s Food Security Tools<\/a><\/strong>
Provides additional food security resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rhody Outpost<\/a><\/strong>
URI\u2019s principal basic needs pantry for students experiencing food insecurity.  The Outpost provides fresh and non-perishable food and personal care items at no charge to students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Student First Fund<\/strong><\/a>
Provides additional emergency support to URI students with demonstrated financial need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grubhub and Meaningful Mondays<\/strong><\/a>
Anyone with a meal plan can make dining dollars donations through Grubhub and allocate dining dollars throughout the year on \u2018Meaningful Mondays.\u2019 Donors can give $5 in Dining Dollars to a fund which gets redistributed to students in need.<\/p>\n\n<\/section>\n\n

Off Campus Resources<\/h1>\n\n

Too Good To Go App<\/a><\/strong>
Unsold food from your favorite restaurants, grocery stores, caf\u00e9s, and shops goes to waste simply because it isn\u2019t sold in time. The Too Good To Go app makes it easy to make a difference, allowing you to buy Surprise Bags of good food at an even better price.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

St. Peter’s by-the-sea Community Market<\/strong><\/a>
The Community Market is open every Friday from 3:00 – 5:00 PM to all who need food assistance; offering canned goods, frozen foods, fresh produce, and a selection of personal care items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonnycake Center for Hope<\/strong><\/a>
22 Kersey Road, Peace Dale, RI
401.789.1559
Members are invited to shop at the Jonnycake Market once a month, or more often if necessary, and bring home a week\u2019s worth of food for their family. This includes fresh produce, meats and poultry, eggs and milk, non-perishable items, cereal, bread, paper goods, and a host of other items.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peace Dale Dinner Table<\/strong><\/a>
261 Columbia St, Peace Dale, RI 02879
Meals provided by Peace Dale Congregational Church
Dinner Table Meals are provided for Pick-up or Delivery on Wednesday and\/or Friday Evenings between 4:30 and 6:00 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To sign up for a meal:<\/strong>
Call or text 401-594-3031<\/strong> or email PDCCdinner.table@gmail.com<\/a> before Noon on Tuesday<\/strong>.
Be sure to include Address, Phone Number, and Number of Meals. If you are picking up your meal, remain in the car and a Volunteer will bring the meal to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)<\/strong><\/a> 
<\/strong>SNAP is a government assistance program that helps low-income households pay for nutritious food. Rhode Islanders can use the SNAP Outreach website to apply for nutrition assistance.<\/p>\n\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":969,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-8591","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/counseling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/counseling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/counseling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/counseling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/969"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/counseling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8591"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/counseling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10075,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/counseling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8591\/revisions\/10075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/counseling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}