{"id":33320,"date":"2025-11-01T10:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T10:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/33320\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T10:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T10:56:09","slug":"los-angeles-food-drives-and-turkey-giveaways-for-november-and-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/33320\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles food drives and turkey giveaways for November and Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over 5 million California residents \u2014 including 2 million children \u2014 rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits<\/a> that cover essential food such as fresh fruit and vegetables, meat, dairy, bread and snacks. Those funds are on hold as the federal shutdown continues<\/a>, putting economic strain on the 1 in 8 Americans who rely on SNAP benefits, during a time of year when budgets are already tight as many prepare for holiday gatherings and gift giving. <\/p>\n

But Angelenos are stepping up for those in need<\/a>, from neighborhood nonprofits and community centers to local restaurants and chefs, offering grocery delivery, mobile farmers markets, grab-and-go meals and Thanksgiving spreads. <\/p>\n

Here are 40 food initiatives happening across Los Angeles County this November, from free chicken rice porridge on Sundays to a communal Thanksgiving feast. Be sure to read details carefully; some events are open to all with no registration required, while others require advance sign up with proof of income and residency.<\/p>\n

Times staff writer Kailyn Brown contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 5 million California residents \u2014 including 2 million children \u2014 rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[23555,24086,24083,24087,24088,48,52,51,17566,47,24082,50,49,63,14180,24085,11053,24084,15398,24081,13804],"class_list":["post-33320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bread","tag-community-center","tag-dairy","tag-fresh-fruit","tag-grocery-delivery","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-local-restaurant","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-food-drive","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-meat","tag-mobile-farmer-market","tag-november","tag-snack","tag-thanksgiving","tag-turkey-giveaway","tag-vegetable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}