At the Everywhere Project's weekly outreach event at LOVE Park on Wednesday night, director Thomas Frey said about 400 people stood in line to get a hot meal for an event that normally serves anywhere from 120 to 140 people. Volunteers had to call for pizza when they ran out of food with 45 minutes of serving time to go, and they began giving out some of the food donations from a collection drive while they waited for it to be delivered.

"W e resorted to ... ripping open cans of peanut butter and jelly and heating up vegetables on the stove just to get some hot foods," Frey said. "We were processing and feeding some of those donations within minutes of receiving them last night. Everybody got fed, but it took us an hour longer to do it." MORE: With SNAP benefits in flux, Philly find

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