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We are a mutual aid project providing free hot meals and grocery care packages to anyone impacted by COVID-19 across Toronto and the GTA.

Free of charge, no questions asked, no fixed address required.

11/15/2022

3 MORE DAYS TO BUY TPP'S COOKBOOK!

The People's Pantry Community Cookbook is a time capsule and a time machine. Created to commemorate and document a small sample of work by TPP across central Southern Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic, our cookbook is a memory of how we came together as family and in community during times of isolation. To travel forward in time, the book connects other families and communities, as we hope the meals you prepare and the stories you share, will bring you together, just as they did for us.

To keep supporting TPP you can purchase a hard copy for $35 by completing the form on our website (link in bio). You can also download a PDF "Pay What You Can" version of our cookbook and donate by sending a direct etransfer to our cofounder Jade at [email protected].

SALES END NOVEMBER 18TH!

We hope you'll help us celebrate this milestone and help spread the word!

In solidarity,
The People’s Pantry

11/11/2022

Some of the recent meals made by for our recently revitalized collaboration with .ca, where we get meals to LGBTQ youth community members ❤️

Stay tuned for more pics of Stewart's delicious meals, plus baked good and delivery photos too!!

To donate OR to purchase our community cookbook book before November 18th, visit our website (link also in bio): thepeoplespantryto.com

In solidarity,
The People’s Pantry

11/08/2022

Need a thoughtful, unique, and community minded gift idea for the upcoming holiday season? Good news! For a limited time only (until November 18th) we are reopening sales for our community cookbook for just that reason!

The People's Pantry Community Cookbook is a time capsule and a time machine. Created to commemorate and document a small sample of work by TPP across central Southern Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic, our cookbook is a memory of how we came together as family and in community during times of isolation. To travel forward in time, the book connects other families and communities, as we hope the meals you prepare and the stories you share, will bring you together, just as they did for us.

To keep supporting TPP you can purchase a hard copy for $35 by completing the form on our website (link below and in bio). You can also download a PDF "Pay What You Can" version of our cookbook and donate by sending a direct etransfer to our cofounder Jade at [email protected].

Website: http://thepeoplespantryto.com/

SALES END NOVEMBER 18TH!

We hope you'll help us celebrate this milestone and help spread the word!

In solidarity,
The People’s Pantry

11/01/2022

Double chocolate chip bread by fab Brampton baker volunteers and for two families in Peel 🍫 Delivered by the glorious with grocery bundles 🛍

To donate, please visit: donorbox.org/thepeoplespantryto 🤙🏿

To volunteer or donate, visit our website: thepeoplespantryto.com - (link in bio).

In solidarity,
The People’s Pantry

10/29/2022

Awesome Mississauga grocer-delivery volunteer of to deliver grocery bundles for four families in Mississauga with a little Halloween gift for each delivery 🎃

To volunteer or donate, visit our website: Thepeoplespantryto.com (link in bio) 🤙🏾

In solidarity,
The People’s Pantry

10/27/2022

Cooked meals by Hamilton volunteer who feed two families and packaged groceries to three others on Sunday, with baked good donations from and delivery support from Melissa!

To volunteer or donate go to our website: thepeoplespantryto.com - link in bio. 🤙🏿

In solidarity,
The People’s Pantry

09/27/2022

- a long time and exceptional Tkaronto chef volunteer for TPP is back!

Stewart and friends (more photos to follow!) is now working with .ca to get meals to LGBTQ youth community members ❤️

Although we still don't have the capacity to take on individual meal requests across Tkaronto, we're hoping this can help us set the ground work to secure a regular TO based meal program in the futures.

But to do this fully, we could really use community donations to help us both keep all our operations afloat (spanning 9 cities across central Southern Ontario) and to continue to expand back in TO.

To donate, visit: https://donorbox.org/thepeoplespantryto

We also really need delivery volunteers for Hamilton! DM for volunteer form.

In solidarity,
The People’s Pantry

08/29/2022

Last week, our Tkaronto grocery team provided 22 boxes to 20 food insecure families in the city 🍓🥑

Due to lack of funding opportunities/resources + low funding streams, we're only able to provide grocery support to our Tkaronto community members on an irregular basis. If you'd like to (and can) help increase our program services within the region, please consider donating to our mutual aid group!

To donate, please visit: donorbox.org/thepeoplespantryto - linked on our website, the link for which is in bio ✌🏾

We can currently only accept chef, baker, grocer, and delivery volunteers for non-Tkaronto requests, I.e., Mississauga, Hamilton, Halton region, the Haldimand Tract (Tri-Cities) or Guelph. To volunteer in one or more of these cities, please go to our website (link in bio) to sign up.

In solidarity,
The People’s Pantry

08/25/2022

The People’s Pantry was founded by mostly Black and Brown q***r, trans, and feminist graduate students and community organizers in Toronto/the GTA. We started with a single Facebook post to CareMongeringTO, offering free homecooked meals to Torontonians in need following the COVID-19 pandemic, and quickly grew from there.

From a small beginning of 6 people, we've now had hundreds of volunteers across Southern Ontario work to support our mutual aid project. To date, we've delivered tens of thousands of meals and grocery care packages to food-insecure families across Toronto, the Greater Toronto-Hamilton Area, and Tri-Cities-Guelph.

We believe that food justice is social justice. We provide food free of charge, no questions asked, no fixed address required, because everyone deserves access to high-quality, culturally appropriate, and nutritional food.
We focus on particularly hard-hit communities, including QT/BIPOC, single parents, s*x workers, precariously housed persons, the immune-compromised, disabled folx, immigrants, refugees, and the elderly.

Volunteer or donate today! Volunteer lin bio, website link for donations below :)

In sol.
The People’s Pantry

[There is the logo of the People’s Pantry on a green background. The logo is a raised fist with a fork and knife in it. Above the logo’s frame, there is a line that reads: We believe that food justice is social justice. Under the logo’s frame, there is another line with a smaller font that reads: To find out more about the People’s Pantry TO, check out our website! thepeoplespantryto.com.]

08/23/2022

Cooked meals by new and very awesome chef-grocer Hamilton volunteer - her first week, she covered cooked meal requests for two families and grocery care packages for two others. All delivered by Melissa 💛Meals included:

🍗 Lemon, garlic and herb chicken drumsticks with potatoes and vegetable medley

🌶 Cajun ‘dirty’ rice with spicy sausage.

To donate: donorbox.org/thepeoplespantryto ✌🏾

To volunteer for Hamilton, or anywhere else in our catchment area outside Tkaronto, click link in bio - we're in immediate need of Hamilton and Mississauga volunteers.

In solidarity,
The People’s Pantry

08/22/2022

Last week, our Tkaronto grocery team provided 26 boxes to 20 food insecure families in the city 🥬🍅

Due to lack of funding opportunities/resources + low funding streams, we're only able to provide grocery support to our Tkaronto community members on an irregular basis. If you'd like to (and can) help increase our program services within the region, please consider donating to our mutual aid group!

To donate, please visit: donorbox.org/thepeoplespantryto - linked on our website, the link for which is in bio ✌🏾

We can currently only accept chef, baker, grocer, and delivery volunteers for non-Tkaronto requests, I.e., Mississauga, Hamilton, Halton region, the Haldimand Tract (Tri-Cities) or Guelph. To volunteer in one or more of these cities, please go to our website (link in bio) to sign up.

In solidarity,
The People’s Pantry

08/20/2022

With the cost of food and living skyrocketing in the GTHA and volunteer rates dropping across Ontario, we've been struggling these last few months to get food deliveries to families in Mississauga on a regular basis and to get groceries and meals to families in Hamilton, period. Things are only getting worse as our current - and absolutely wonderful- volunteers are stretched thin, and demand is only growing.

If you're able to volunteer in any of the below ways, our community would deeply appreciate it ❤

We are in urgent need of:

✔️ Lots of grocery-delivery volunteers for Mississauga (pick up and deliver approx. 3 grocery items to min. 1 family)

✔️ A biweekly or triweekly volunteer to buy a few groceries and/or cook some meals for Hamilton for Sunday pick up

✔️ Delivery volunteers for Hamilton

**All grocery and meal costs are covered by The People’s Pantry**

To volunteer, click the following link (also temporarily in our bio): https://forms.gle/ocuFYdTVyUcoVAPB7

You can also email the cofounder in charge of non-Tkaronto requests at [email protected] with any questions.

In solidarity,
The People’s Pantry

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https://www.thepeoplespantryto.com/

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