Let’s say, hypothetically, I run a soup kitchen. We get donated goods that are mostly things about to expire, or considered too “imperfect” for sale. That is; things which are perfectly fine to eat, but businesses usually throw out, and will probably be less generous with as the crisis hits.
I can anticipate now that demand will increase on the soup kitchen’s services, while simultaneously our inputs decrease…
I guess this may be an intractable problem, really. Other than trying to build new connections in the community, which usually takes a lot of time and energy, there’s probably nothing that can be done. But, people on here have given me very thoughtful and clever answers before, so figured I’d ask.


Stock up on stuff that stores well (in cool dry storage) I guess? Grains, canned goods, and assuming your power situation is relatively stable, lots of stuff in the freezers? I’m actually not sure. But to me this is where I’d start