Food Resources

SNAP helps individuals and families buy food at local grocery stores and farmers markets. SNAP can bridge the financial gap to support individuals and families to have access to healthy nutritious food. Students who have a 0 EFC or are work-study eligible are eligible for SNAP benefits.  

Are you eligible for SNAP?

• Eligibility Tool
• Apply for SNAP
• Find a SNAP Outreach Specialist 

If you are on SNAP, we offer Connect 4 Success on campus. Learn more here.

The Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) helps families with children to meet their basic needs, while helping parents move to financial stability through work. Parents are expected to work, and are supported in working with both cash and food assistance. Most families have a lifetime limit of 60 months on MFIP.

• Learn more and apply

• With the support of the community, Family Pathways provides access to healthy food for individuals and families and actively works to correct disparities to ensure all people have what they need to achieve and maintain health, well-being and prosperity. Search here to find a food pantry near you.
• Connecting hungry residents with resources to put food on the table, Hunger Solutions also manages the Market Bucks program that helps SNAP customers double their buying power at farmers markets.
• Search here by State to find local food pantries, soup kitchens, food shelves, food banks and other food help. FoodPantries.org works hard to gather the best government and nonprofit subsidized grocery resources on the Internet.
• Twin Cities Mobile Market is a mobile grocery store on a bus that brings affordable foods—such as fresh fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy and grains—directly to Twin Cities neighborhoods that don’t have nearby grocery stores or food shelves. 
• Fare for All is a food group cooperative purchasing program that offers affordable groceries and packages of produce and meat up to 40% off retail prices. Fare For All helps individuals and families stretch food dollars and is a great way to save money on quality, nutritious food.   
• Purchase food online using SNAP benefits
• What to do with the foods you access: Recipes, cooking tips and ideas for a healthier life

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants & Children (WIC) is a nutrition and breastfeeding program that helps eligible pregnant women, new mothers, babies and young children. WIC provides nutrition education and counseling, nutritious foods, and referrals to health and other social services.