Soup kitchen maybe not, but definitely food pantry, which is what I referred to in an earlier post. Where I grew up, food pantries ran out of food and then there wasn't any more until donors came in, so there were stories in the newspaper about how people were limited to how often they could visit it to stretch out reserves. If he's eating at soup kitchens, why wouldn't he stop at a food pantry too for a loaf of bread and some peanut butter so he can go further on the road between stops?