Hancock County Food Pantry

03/27/2026

02/12/2026

The Food Pantry will be closed on Monday and Tuesday of next week (February 16th and 17th).

We will reopen on Wednesday, February 18th at 9:00 am

01/26/2026

We are open today

Monday January 26th

12/10/2025

We have had had several people recently request a copy of the wishlist that was created to stock our lagniappe shelves so we are sharing below:

Walmart wishlist link:

https://www.walmart.com/lists/wishlist/af3d5d82-c9fc-42ad-bdc6-606102835158

Amazon wishlist link:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1I7JLTIBSI448?ref=cm_sw_sm_r_un_un_rf8qb2RRPgIaT

11/18/2025

The 40th annual Kelly Family Thanksgiving Dinner is offering free meals for the community. Joining us is Julie Massengill with the details. The dinner takes place at the Bay St. Louis Community Hall on Thanksgiving Day, November 27 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. or until the food is gone. For more informati...

11/18/2025

We served 81 families yesterday at the Hancock County Food Pantry. Thank you to Caroline (aka Mississippi Kween) for using her platform to give back to her community!

We thank all of our volunteers and donors as you are the lifeline of our operation. We couldn’t do it without each and every one of you!

I stopped by Hancock County Food Pantry to get an update and y’all! Over 2,000 pounds of food has come in! There’s still stuff to be picked up at the post office and deliveries are still coming in. If you feel led to send an item, the info is down below🩷🩷🩷

11/18/2025

These photographs are from our team Sunday, who picked up over 1,500 pounds of food donated from Mississippi Kween’s food pantry lagniappe food drive at the post office, unloaded, and stocked the items (notably absent from the picture is our newest team member, Polly of Pine Hills Nursery, who kindly met us at the post office with her box truck).

11/14/2025

Between the donations from Mississippi Kween’s food pantry lagniappe food drive and the food drive from St. Stanislaus, we processed over 2,000 pounds of food today!

Students from SSC delivered and stocked 1,000.23 pounds of food.

We are thankful for our communites rallying together to take care of their neighbors in need.

11/11/2025

**** TOMORROW****
HRC, United Way of South Mississippi, and Coast Electric are teaming up to help our neighbors. There will be a mobile food pantry on Wednesday, November 12 at the Hancock County Farmers' Market.

**Please note that all vehicles will enter from Chapman Road (turn onto Reserved Street) and exit on Longfellow. There will be no entrance from Longfellow Road.**