Senior Food
We’ve got to keep the roof over our heads, wood on the porch and food in our bellies. This helps a lot. Herb, age 74
Getting nutritious food to seniors is a priority for OFH
The Food Bank’s Senior Food program supplements the diets of low-income seniors with nutritious USDA food. More than 4,100 seniors, age 60 and older who live at or below 130% of the poverty level, receive monthly food boxes at Ozarks Food Harvest partner agencies like senior centers, churches and pantries. Ozarks Food Harvest has these resources available in all 28 counties of its service area. The food items provided act as a supplement of the nutrients typically lacking in the diets of seniors in need. All of these USDA commodities are packaged into the boxes solely by Ozarks Food Harvest volunteers at the O’Reilly Center for Hunger Relief. The Food Bank also partners with several senior centers to distribute food via meal or pantry programs.
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50K
Senior Food Boxes
assembled and distributed by Ozarks Food Harvest annually
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45
Partner sites
provide the boxes to income-eligible seniors
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1.2M
Meals
served each year via the Senior Food Boxes
How does it work?
USDA provides food to The Food Banks
This food, along with other federal USDA Foods sent to Ozarks Food Harvest, make up about 20 percent of The Food Bank’s total annual distribution. The USDA Foods that Ozarks Food Harvest volunteers assemble into the Senior Food boxes include items such as canned vegetables and fruits, peanut butter, beans, canned meat, cereal, milk, cheese, rice and pasta. Each package contains approximately 30 pounds of food, or 25 meals.
Senior Food Box Program Sites
- Cassville Pantry
- Good Samaritan – Lamar
- SAMA Food Pantry – Stockton
- Least of These – Nixa
- OACAC – Dade County
- Calvery Chapel FWB – Buffalo
- Shepherd’s Nook – Salem
- Ava Assembly of God
- First Christian Church – Republic
- Crosslines – Springfield
- Springfield Dream Center
- Hickory County Cares – Wheatland
- Pittsburg Fire Department
- Senior Citizens of Mountain View
- SeniorAge – West Plains
- AAA Region X-Carthage
- Oronogo UMC
- Salvation Army – Joplin
- St. Paul UMC – Joplin
- St. Susanne Catholic Church – Mt. Vernon
- SeniorAge Aurora
- Monett Community Pantry
- L-Life Food Pantry – Lebanon
- Crosslines McDonald County – Anderson
- The Help Center – Neosho
- Seneca Food Pantry
- Oregon County Food Pantry – Alton
- Oregon County Food Pantry – Thayer
- Ozark County Food Pantry – Gainesville
- Community Outreach Ministries – Bolivar
- Dixon Caring Center
- Good Samaritan – Richland
- Good Samaritan – Waynesville
- Crocker Presbyterian Church
- Winona Assembly of God
- St. Clair County Food Pantry – Osceola
- Southern Stone County Food Pantry – Kimberling City
- CAM – Branson
- CAM – Forsyth
- Texas County Food Pantry – Houston
- Sheldon Community Center
- Vernon County Senior Center – Nevada
- Kings Food Pantry – Seymour
- SeniorAge – Marshfield
- Mountain Grove Love Center
Note: Seniors must live in the county where the program is available.
All of Ozarks Food Harvest’s partner agencies comply with a non-discrimination policy and are prohibited from refusing service to anyone based on race, creed, religious or political affiliation, gender or sexual preferences. Agencies are also prohibited from requiring participation in any religious services or activities in exchange for Ozarks Food Harvest’s food or services.
View the USDA’s Nondiscrimination Statement clicking here.