Food pantry is held in a church basement a couple towns away. I say town but thats being very generous, township is more accurate and there are a lot more cows than humans. Some towns are just an abandoned church with 3-4 houses next to it at an intersection of 2 county roads. Old foundations indicate the town was at least 5 times that size 150 years ago.

Anyway the pantry is held 1 or 2 days a month. People line up down the road and wait in their car, first come, first serve, produce goes fast if they have any. Bikes and walkers wait in line between cars, and are heavily discriminated against. Everyone gets 1-2 standard grocery bags of stuff. Wait time is about 3 hours. Like to get a shot at a browning bag of lettuce or mealy potatoes you gotta show up by at least at 10am, then actually get in at 1pm. If you show up later than 10am you probably won't get any as you will be too far back. If its raining and you got no car, sucks to be you. Winter gets -40f so with no car you probably can't go for at least half the year. If you bike you gotta guard it.

They threw it in the bushes last time i went, so they could bring another car up from the line across the road, then i was pushed and rushed out the door so that person could come in since they wouldn't wait in their car at the door. Had heavy rain that day, my communte plus the wait made it an all day investment of time, tons of back pain as i had to lay on the pavement next to my bike when i couldn't stand anymore, 2 days bedridden in pain afterwards, all for a single bag of groceries worth about $20. Would have been less hastle to just wait a few weeks till i got a ride to town and buy groceries that were not stale and moldy.

Most of what they get comes from grocery stores donating expired stuff as a tax write off, so its expired canned good and dry goods, stuff nobody wants, or was clearly inedible like bagged lettuce covered in brown slime with walkmart tags indicating it was marked down, expired a week earlier, then donated when someone from the pantry asked for stuff.

I mostly got stuff in the past when people didn't want it and dumped it off on me. For a time after my injury i did attend by car pooling with my neighbor but she was lazy and selfish and did some really trashy things, haven't spoken to her since 2023, also to car pool i had to pay her $20 per trip (even when she owed me money , was going there anyway, she refused to write it off the debt, if i gave her the $20 she spent it on fast food. I saw her eat an entire family size bucket of chicken combo with the sides from kfc in a single sitting, then whine she was still hungry so she fought her equally obese daughter over 2 boxes of donuts, was like a game of hungry hungry hippos).

I tried to get a ride with other people i know who go to it, offered to pay for gas (to cover the whole trip) just for something to do, if not for the single bag of shitty groceries, but they wouldn't do it.

Not worth the trouble to go on my own means, and got no other way to go, so its not worth considering it an option (from a realistic view its not an option at all)

As per internet, i have a prepaid cell phone from walkmart. I got the phone for $30 about a year ago and it has unlimited data at 3g for $45 per month. I get a couple cards for it whenever i get a ride to town, charge it off a marine battery thats charged with a solar panel on my porch roof.

Same battery runs a single LED lighbulb and powers my archaic win7 laptop