Meals & Nutrition

With funds from the Older Americans Act, Senior Solutions helps local partners provide meals to seniors. We’ll also help you apply for government-sponsored benefit programs.

Get Meals At Home

Meals on Wheels

If you are 60+ and are unable to shop or cook, our friendly volunteers bring nutritious food and social connection to your home.

Senior Solutions staffers can help sign you up for meal deliveries at home. If you or someone you know could use this benefit, call the Meal Intake Line at Senior Solutions today. 802-465-4293, or email us at info@seniorsolutionsvt.org.

Socialize With Friends

Community Meals

Join us in creating community for seniors! Eating meals together helps connect communities and strengthen bonds among participants. It provides seniors with meaningful, yet natural, interactions: food provides its own topic of conversation, making it easier to interact with others. Sharing meals regularly can also decrease feelings of loneliness and depression.

People under 60 pay a modest fee for meals. For people over 60, there is usually a suggested donation of $3-5 for these events, but no one in this age group is ever turned away for lack of ability to pay. If you wish to give a larger donation, it will gladly be accepted to support the meal program.

Food Programs

State and Federal Food Programs

There are a variety of programs to assist seniors in accessing healthy, nutritious, affordable food. Our outreach staff are in the field and can assist with completing and submitting applications for 3SquaresVT.

CSFP (COMMODITY SUPPLEMENTAL FOOD PROGRAM) is a Vermont Food Bank Program that is age (60) and income-based. It provides boxes of shelf-stable products to qualified seniors, and are distributed at a local “drop site” and need to be picked up by the client.

Vermont Food Bank works through local Food Shelves to offer groceries to low-income residents. 

3SquaresVT is a nutrition program that helps you put healthy food on the table. If you meet income guidelines, you’ll get money every month that you can use to buy food. You can receive these funds as cash in the bank or on a card just like a debit card. The card can be used at almost 600 stores in Vermont, including many supermarkets, local general stores, convenience stores, and even farmers markets and community-based co-ops. If everyone in your household is 65 years or older, 3SquaresVT benefits may be deposited directly into your bank account and used just like you would use any funds in your account.

3SquaresVT in a SNAP is an even easier program. If everyone in your household is at least 60 years old (or receiving disability benefits), and no one is earning income from employment, the application process is shorter and easier – and you keep your benefits for three years with no additional paperwork!


Get in Touch

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In accordance with federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), religious creed, disability, age, political beliefs, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity.

Program information may be made available in languages other than English.  Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication to obtain program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language), should contact the agency (state or local) where they applied for benefits. Individuals who are deaf, hard of hearing or have speech disabilities may contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.

To file a program discrimination complaint, a Complainant should complete a Form AD-3027, USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form which can be obtained online at: https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ad-3027.pdf, from any USDA office, by calling (866) 632-9992, or by writing a letter addressed to USDA. The letter must contain the complainant’s name, address, telephone number, and a written description of the alleged discriminatory action in sufficient detail to inform the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civil rights violation. The completed AD-3027 form or letter must be submitted via mail, fax or email.

Mail

Food and Nutrition Service, USDA
1320 Braddock Place, Room 334
Alexandria, VA 22314

Fax

(833) 256-1665 or (202) 690-7442