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FISH/HELP / Food Warehouses / Grocery Shopping
Home Delivery / Soup Kitchens/Food Pantries
| Food and Drug Administration (FDA) |
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857 |
1-888-723-3366 (Food Information Line)
1-888-463-6332 (Toll Free) |
| FDA, part of the Federal Government, regulates the safety and effectiveness of food products, additives, drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics. Contact FDA for information on safe drug use and side effects, vitamines, and laws regulating medicines and foods. FDA has information on topics including cancer, health fraud, nutrition, buying medicines online, and food safety. |
Emergency Food in Maryland
Volunteer programs providing food. Some also provide emergency, transportation, clothing, furniture and financial assistance. FISH stands for "For Immediate Sympathetic Help." Serving Western Upper Montgomery County: Poolesville, Boyds, Dickerson, Beallsville and Barnesville areas.
| Bethesda HELP: |
301-294-4888 (V) |
| Damascus HELP: |
301-253-4100 (V) |
| Gaithersburg HELP: |
301-216-2510 (V) |
| Germantown HELP: |
301-482-1320 (V) |
| Olney HELP: |
301-774-4334 (V) |
| Leisure World FISH: |
301-598-1345 (V) |
| Rockville FISH: |
301-564-0800 (V) |
| Silver Spring-Wheaton HELP: |
301-585-4357 (V) |
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| SHARE Food Network |
P.O. Box 768
Bladensburg, MD 20710 |
301-864-3115 (V)
1-800-21-SHARE (Toll Free) |
| Volunteer requirement, deeply discounted food. |
| Spanish Community Center |
| 301-434-3999 (V) |
| Provides foods and necessary items for people with disabilities. |
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Grocery Shopping and Delivery Options |
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| Broad Branch Grocery, District of Columbia: |
| 202-966-5656 (V) |
| Food & Friends: |
| 202-269-2277 (V) |
| Food & Friends delivers prepared meals or groceries and provides nutrition counseling services to eligible persons living with disabling illnesses and their dependents residing in Montgomery County. This program features menus designed to combat symptoms and side effects common to clients living with specific chronic illnesses. |
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Meals on Wheels (MOW) |
| Bethesda-Chevy Chase MOW: |
301-645-4610 (V) |
| Central Maryland MOW: |
1-877-730-9476 (V) |
| Colesville MOW: |
301-384-7440 (V) |
| Damascus MOW: |
301-253-3850 (V) |
| Gaithersburg MOW: |
301-216-4200 (V) |
| Germantown MOW: |
301-251-6885 (V) |
| JSSA MOW: |
301-881-3700 (V)
301-984-5662 (TTY) |
| Rockville MOW: |
301-340-1559 (V) |
| S.A.L.T. MOW: |
301-434-5918 (V) |
| Takoma Park MOW: |
301-434-1922 (V) |
| Wheaton MOW: |
301-942-1111 (V) |
| Meals on Wheels Association of America (MOWAA) |
1414 Prince Street, Suite 302
Alexandria, VA 22314 |
703-548-5558 (V)
703-548-8024 (FAX) |
| MOWAA is a national, nonprofit organization providing training and grants to programs that provide food to older people, and those who are frail, people with disabilities or homebound. |
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Soup Kitchens / Food Pantries |
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| Lord's Table |
201 S. Frederick Avenue
Gaithersburg, MD 20877 |
301-330-5812 (V) |
| Gaithersburg Community Soup Kitchen. |
| SOME (So Others May Eat) |
71 O Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
E-mail: web@some.org |
202-797-8806 (V)
202-265-3849 (FAX) |
| Interfaith, community-based organization that exists to help the poor and homeless of our nation's capital. Serve food, clothing, and health care. Offer services such as affordable housing, job training, addiction treatment, and counseling, to the poor, the elderly and individuals with mental illness. |
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