0 a place where food is given to people who do not have enough money to buy it, for example by a charity:
Only a quarter of the people who use the state's food pantries receive government food stamps, according to a study released yesterday.
Homeless shelters, food pantries, hospitals, and churches cannot sustain the surge indefinitely.
For two decades Bea Gaddy ran a privately funded food pantry out of her row house.
