{"id":33,"date":"2026-04-08T19:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T23:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/chapter\/food-support-2\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T18:46:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:46:35","slug":"food-support-2","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/chapter\/food-support-2\/","title":{"raw":"Food Support","rendered":"Food Support"},"content":{"raw":"<img class=\"size-medium wp-image-81 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2656\/2026\/04\/maria-lin-kim-8RaUEd8zD-U-unsplash-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>Food support programs that offer free or reduced-cost groceries or meals.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/saigecommunityfoodbank.com\/\">Saige Community Helping Community<\/a>\r\nLow barrier, Two-Spirit, Trans and Gender Diverse safe space, that provides a bimonthly food share program and community kitchen in East Vancouver.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/vcfp.square.site\/find-a-fridge\">Vancouver Community Fridge Map<\/a>\r\nThe Vancouver Community Fridge Project is a decentralized food distribution network that provides healthy food and essential supplies to our communities across the city of Vancouver. The fridges are open to everyone, no sign-up required.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.questoutreach.org\/\">QUEST Food Exchange<\/a>\r\nFree and low-cost grocery markets, four locations across the lower mainland (Vancouver, Burnaby, North Vancouver).\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodbanksbc.com\/find-a-food-bank\">Food Banks BC<\/a>\r\nA directory of food banks across BC.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fraserhealth.ca\/health-topics-a-to-z\/free-and-low-cost-food-directory\">Fraser Health<\/a>\r\nA list of free and low-cost food and meal programs\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-81 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2656\/2026\/04\/maria-lin-kim-8RaUEd8zD-U-unsplash-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2656\/2026\/04\/maria-lin-kim-8RaUEd8zD-U-unsplash-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2656\/2026\/04\/maria-lin-kim-8RaUEd8zD-U-unsplash-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2656\/2026\/04\/maria-lin-kim-8RaUEd8zD-U-unsplash-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2656\/2026\/04\/maria-lin-kim-8RaUEd8zD-U-unsplash-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2656\/2026\/04\/maria-lin-kim-8RaUEd8zD-U-unsplash-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2656\/2026\/04\/maria-lin-kim-8RaUEd8zD-U-unsplash-65x49.jpg 65w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2656\/2026\/04\/maria-lin-kim-8RaUEd8zD-U-unsplash-225x169.jpg 225w, https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2656\/2026\/04\/maria-lin-kim-8RaUEd8zD-U-unsplash-350x263.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Food support programs that offer free or reduced-cost groceries or meals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/saigecommunityfoodbank.com\/\">Saige Community Helping Community<\/a><br \/>\nLow barrier, Two-Spirit, Trans and Gender Diverse safe space, that provides a bimonthly food share program and community kitchen in East Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vcfp.square.site\/find-a-fridge\">Vancouver Community Fridge Map<\/a><br \/>\nThe Vancouver Community Fridge Project is a decentralized food distribution network that provides healthy food and essential supplies to our communities across the city of Vancouver. The fridges are open to everyone, no sign-up required.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.questoutreach.org\/\">QUEST Food Exchange<\/a><br \/>\nFree and low-cost grocery markets, four locations across the lower mainland (Vancouver, Burnaby, North Vancouver).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodbanksbc.com\/find-a-food-bank\">Food Banks BC<\/a><br \/>\nA directory of food banks across BC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fraserhealth.ca\/health-topics-a-to-z\/free-and-low-cost-food-directory\">Fraser Health<\/a><br \/>\nA list of free and low-cost food and meal programs<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media-attributions clear\" prefix:cc=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/ns#\" prefix:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/\"><h2>Media Attributions<\/h2><ul><li about=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/apples-and-bananas-in-brown-cardboard-box-8RaUEd8zD-U?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText\"><a rel=\"cc:attributionURL\" href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/apples-and-bananas-in-brown-cardboard-box-8RaUEd8zD-U?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText\" property=\"dc:title\">maria-lin-kim-8RaUEd8zD-U-unsplash<\/a>  &copy;  Maria Lin Kim     <\/li><\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2333,"menu_order":7,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-33","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":20,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/33\/revisions\/82"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/20"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/33\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/vcc2slgbtqiastudentguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}