Where is free food on campus? Find out with Share Meals!
A simple way to share food and reduce waste on campus.
We’ve partnered with Share Meals, a free app that helps connect free food with hungry people on campus. Theres often extra food leftover after meetings, events, or programs. Instead of letting that food go to waste, you can post on Share Meals and redistribute it in real time. At Retriever Essentials, we think about campus resources through a systems lens. Food insecurity and food waste often exist in the same system, and tools like Share Meals help us close that loop by making it easy to act quickly when food is available.
How it works:
- UMBC users post free food
- Anyone with notifications turned on will get an alert about where food is, what’s available, and how long it’ll be there
- Community members come pick up within the time limit, while supplies last
It’s simple! When one person shares, the whole community benefits.
Get the App:
Download Share Meals and join the UMBC Community. When signing up, use your umbc.edu email address to automatically get connected to our campus community. Once signed up, opt-in to push notifications so you can get alerts when food is posted.
Having trouble signing up? Some users have reported the verification email delivering to their spam/junk folder, be sure to check there! Please contact us if you experience any other issues with the app.
