Emerald Coast Meal Share

Meal shares on the Emerald Coast are a pillar of our chapter and organization. Members, volunteers, and anyone that wants warm food to eat come together in solidarity to both feed the community and talk.

Meal share happens at least once per month on a Saturday. Check out our calendar or email us for the next date.

During meal shares, we also pack boxes of food for houses that request Mutual Aid, and have our members and volunteers deliver them to households in need.

Q: Where is the meal share?

A: On highway 98 (Emerald Coast Strip), near Lisa Jackson Park at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church.

Q: What can I bring?

A: Individually wrapped items needed: Drinks, canned meal (must have pop top), fruit, granola bar, fruit snacks, cookies, crackers/chips

Personal Care Items: Deodorant, hand sanitizer, handwipes, bandaids, toothpaste and toothbrushes, sunscreen, chap stick

Bulk Items needed (need as much as you can bring!): Bread, peanut butter, jelly, pasta, sauces, canned veggies, shelf stable microwaveable meals, Box meals like hamburger helper. Any and all canned or boxed food!

Q: How many people come seeking a meal for a plate?

A: been trying to break the record of 30 people in recent months.

Q: Can I bring food to share?

A: YES! we do encourage people to bring and share food. We will find homeless shelters or other meal shares to send uneaten food.

Q: Where does uneaten food from the meal share go?

A: They can go to any number of places like One hopeful place (homeless shelter), Food Not Bombs meal share at Lisa Jackson Park, and our Pensacola DSA Meal share that happens the day after

• We had busses of people show up to our meal share because they saw a sign that we posted on the highway