Mama's Kitchen

Connect your critically ill neighbors to healthy food designed to heal.

Mama’s Kitchen strives to provide nutritional support to San Diego residents at risk of malnutrition due to critical illnesses such as HIV, cancer, congestive heart failure, type 2 diabetes, and chronic kidney disease. Together with hundreds of volunteers, businesses, and community supporters, Mama’s Kitchen strives to help our clients stay healthy, preserve their dignity, and keep their families together by providing, medically tailored home-delivered meals and nutrition education – all at no cost. 

In fiscal year 2022, Mama's Kitchen home-delivered 667,235 meals to 2,284 people across San Diego County. Mama's Kitchen is on track to serve its 12th million meal since its inception in 1990.