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Our Executive Director Heather Thompson recently discussed how our food rescue efforts with farms, grocery stores, and distributors help combat food insecurity in northern New Jersey communities on “Think Tank” with Steve Adubato.


Table to Table is New Jersey’s first and largest food rescue nonprofit, bridging the gap between food being wasted and people facing food insecurity. We bring rescued fresh, nutritious food to 276 community partners, including social service organizations, pantries, shelters, fresh produce markets and centralized distribution hubs. Food is provided free of charge. Through this, Table to Table touches a diversity of those in need, including families, children, veterans, and older adults, making good nutrition accessible while serving as a stimulus for other longer-term benefits. Since 1999 we have rescued more than 133,271 tons of nutritious food — enough for 266,542,863 million meals — and delivered it to our neighbors in need, saving over 612 metric tons of methane saved.

Related:

November 1 is around the corner, and over 800,000 NJ residents do not know whether their SNAP cards will be refilled.  

The federal government shutdown could impact hundreds of thousands of working folks, families with children, veterans, and senior citizens here in New Jersey who rely on SNAP to get food on the table.   

Coupled with furloughs for military and government workers, rising healthcare and housing costs, and ongoing inflation, more and more of our neighbors are facing unprecedented strain – and they are turning to their local food pantries for help. 

Especially with the holidays coming, we are working seven days a week to supply as much free, fresh food as possible to our network of 300 pantries, community kitchens, and social service agencies – rescuing surplus from food donor partners ranging from HelloFresh and Driscoll Foods, to major grocery stores, to local farmers markets and school cafeterias. And you can help.  

Do you have connections to a food business? Introduce us! Do you have a little extra time on your hands? Download our I-Rescue App and help run rescues where you live or work. Are you in an office, part of a faith or civic group, club, Scout troop, or school community? Coordinate with us to organize a produce or turkey drive – we’ll pick up everything and deliver directly to local pantries. 

And if you or someone you know is facing hardships right now and you need help finding food, visit https://nj211.org/njsnap and click on Supplemental Food Resources. 

Together, we will continue our daily commitment to turn surplus into sustenance for our community. 

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Below is flier from the New Jersey Department of Human Services regarding the federal government shutdown and NJ SNAP food assistance in English and Spanish.