Table 2.

Food access strategies used by homeless emerging adults (n 30) recruited from Buffalo, NY, USA, July 2015–January 2016

	Participants using strategy
Food access strategy	n	%
Purchasing food	23	77
Using free meal programmes or food pantries	21	70
Eating at someone’s house	14	47
Scavenging food from the garbage or asking strangers for food donations	6	20
Shelter food	5	17
Stealing food from grocery stores	2	7