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About The Program

Mobile Meals of Trenton/Ewing provides daily, home-delivered meals to individuals who are homebound and/or unable to shop or prepare meals for themselves. These “meals-on-wheels” are delivered by volunteers five days per week. The meals are prepared at Capital Health System Mercer Campus and ARC Mercer, and up to three meals per day area available.

Meal Delivery

Meals are delivered once daily by volunteers. Trenton clients receive meals between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. In Ewing, meals are delivered between 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Clients are asked to remain home during these hours for delivery – meals normally come at approximately the same time each day, but may vary occasionally. If a client is not home or does not answer the door, volunteers will not leave a meal. Instead, a “Sorry We Missed You Note” is left, indicating that volunteers attempted to deliver a meal but there was no response. Mobile Meals staff are notified and will follow up with the client and/or their emergency contact person. No further meals are delivered until the client contacts our office.

Meal Plan Choices

  • 1 Meal Plan
    one hot meal (includes meat/pasta and 2 vegetables) and one cold bag (includes milk, bread, salad, dessert)
  • 2 Meal Plan
    1 Meal Plan plus second cold bag (includes milk, dessert, sandwich) [one hot meal; two brown bags taped together with client last name on them]
  • 3 Meal Plan
    2 Meal Plan plus third cold bag (includes milk, fruit, cold cereal) [one hot meal; three brown bags taped together with client last name on them]
Meals are prepared at Capital Health Systems Mercer and Fuld Campuses. Menus rotate on a two week cycle, and are subject to vary at the discretion of the hospital kitchen.

Special diets (renal, lactose intolerant, chopped, etc) are available by physician order only. We do not accept food preference requests, and we cannot accept clients with life threatening food allergies.


Meal Plan Costs

  • 1 Meal Plan
    $4.80 per day, $24.00 per week ($4.80 x 5 days), $96.00 per month* ($4.80 x 20 days)
  • 2 Meal Plan
    $7.00 per day, $35.00 per week ($7.00 x 5 days), $140.00 per month* ($7.00 x 20 days)
  • 3 Meal Plan
    $7.80 per day, $38.00 per week ($7.80 x 5 days), $156.00 per month* ($7.80 x 20 days)
* The monthly amounts listed are approximate and will vary according to the number of meals received each month.

More Than Meals

In addition to home-delivered meals, Mobile Meals of Trenton/Ewing provides the following to our meal recipients:

  • Nonperishable Groceries

    Once or twice each month, Mobile Meals participants receive a bag of non-perishable items (canned vegetables, fruits, salmon/tuna, soup, juice; cold cereal; potato flakes, etc). These are delivered by volunteers at meal delivery time. These items are courtesy of Mercer Street Friends Food Bank, and come from the USDA TEFAP program (clients qualify based on income at 185% of poverty level or less) and the State Food Purchase Program (clients qualify based on residency in State of New Jersey).

  • “Blizzard Boxes”

    A “meal” in a shoebox is delivered to clients during the winter months in case of inclement weather that may close our office. “Blizzard Boxes” are also delivered prior to holiday weekends or days the office will be closed. Donations of low sodium, easy to open items to stock these boxes, as well as clean shoeboxes, are accepted at our office.

  • Pet Food

    Periodic; donations of cat and dog food.

  • Adult Protective Underwear

    Donated by Homefront when available.

  • Informational Handouts

    Once or twice each month; information about nutrition, senior programs in Trenton/Ewing area, health/safety tips, etc.

  • Holiday Meals

    For meal recipients who will be alone on Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day, an extra meal is provided ahead of time at no charge. These meals are funded by individual donations to the program.
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Mobile Meals of Trenton/Ewing receives funding from the United Way of Greater Mercer County, Mercer County Office on Aging, foundations, corporations, area congregations, and individual donations. Mobile Meals of Trenton/Ewing is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization and an equal opportunity employer.


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