All donations are welcome! These are suggestions for our most needed items:
- Money (your dollars contribute to higher purchasing power)
- Canned meat & fish
- Peanut butter
- Stews or chunky soups
- Baby food, formula, diapers
- Pasta sauce
- Cereal
- 100% Fruit Juice
Many Kingston and area grocery stores have a food collection barrel at store fronts that we pick up weekly:
- Bearance's Grocery - 115 Livingstone Avenue
- Food Basics - 33 Barrack Street
- Food Basics - 1225 Princess Street
- Food Basics - Highway 15 Riverview Shopping Centre
- Foodland - 3 Manitou Crescent, Amherstview
- Fresh Co. - 2327 Princess Street
- Giant Tiger - 656 Gardiner's Road Riocan Centre
- Loblaw's - 1048 Midland Avenue
- Metro - 460 Gardiner's Road Gardiner's Town Centre
- No Frills - Grant's - 1162 Division Street
- No Frills - Chris & Beth's - 1030 Coverdale Drive
- Van Wart's - Your Independent Grocer - 235 Gore Road
Perishables may be brought only to our warehouse location at 4 Harvey Street, Kingston during office hours Monday-Thursday 8:30am-12 noon and 1pm-4:30pm and Fridays 8:30am-12 noon and 1pm-4pm. Volunteer teams with large donations are advised to call our Executive Director Dan Irwin 613-544-4100, director@kingstonfoodbank.ca, in advance to coordinate best times for collections/deliveries.