Pittsburgh Food Security Resources – a List - Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents

UPDATED as of 10/30/2025 – We’ve added a dozen listings.

This is an ongoing list of food resources to support neighbors, including those who might be affected by the cruel cut to the SNAP (food stamps) program. You would be doing your neighbors a great service to let me know what else should be added and share this post. You never know whom among your reach could use the information.

Please send additional information.

This information was originally compiled by 1Hood Power as a service to the community. If you’d like to add something, please contact them via Facebook and me via email pghlesbian@gmail.com. I like this format of using images so let’s keep that up. It makes the information less overwhelming and more accessible.

I have no shame in acknowledging that I rely on a food pantry and friends for food supports so I can continue to fund my blogging and my legal cases. I receive $1500/month from SSDI. That does not stretch very far.

As a single child-free adult even on disability, I would not qualify for SNAP. The complicated situation of my household arrangement makes that more the case. It is another example of how shifting people’s needs from our personal attention and responsibility to these generalized ‘programs’ can be damaging to everyone.

There are those who speak poorly of me for doing so, suggesting I am somehow scamming or running a con. I wouldn’t know how to begin to run a con, but I also know that to begin coping with poverty – you find resources and ask for help. You share your excess, sometimes what you can’t spare. I see this everyday with people whom I know.

And you realize that one day, any day, it could be you. You might never see it coming. I didn’t.

My weekly food pantry distribution is often too large for me. I share certain items with certain people so it doesn’t get wasted. I know they contribute to other pantries and hunger resources. I also use anything that goes bad or unused to feed wildlife so it also doesn’t go to waste.

Every week, I get fruit – a lot of lemons (literally) and apples. It was hard to keep up. So I found a recipe that creates sort of a nonalcoholic sangria – and preserves the fruit longer. I combine orange juice and cranberry or cranberry peach juice. So I’m getting my juice and eating a lot of fruit I might otherwise miss. It also stretches out the juice I buy. Obviously not a solution for everyone, but it works for me and keeps the fruit useful.

Recently, I wrote about Giant Eagle’s mobile markets and free home delivery to those zip codes.

These cuts are going to hurt your neighbors. Sharing a compilation like this is helpful, but we have an obligation to advocate for policies that reduce food insecurity AND to feed our neighbors who are hungry. You can do all of this in whatever way is viable for you.

You can’t turn away.

NOTE – I cannot vouch for the LGBTQ+ competency of each listing. Some seem to be housed in spaces that hold anti-LGBTQ+ beliefs. I hope/assume they treat everyone fairly, but just be careful.