A growing number of restaurants and food trucks around the Bay Area are announcing their plans to provide a range of free and discounted meals for recipients of SNAP, the federal food aid program slated to halt Nov. 1.

The current federal government shutdown is now on day 28. While funding continued through October to support the food aid program, the federal government announced yesterday that it would stop issuing SNAP payments (short for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ) in the new month.

Roughly half a million Bay Area residents rely on the program, called CalFresh in California, for assistance in purchasing groceries, including 176,000 people in Alameda County and 133,000 people in Santa Clara County.

State and county agencies and officials are making moves to

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