This reminds me of two autumns ago when I volunteered to make a cookbooklet for my local Food Pantry. They were getting complaints because they kept giving people the same things year round, mostly Thanksgiving type items they got donated in great quantities once a year. I came up with 12 things to do with Cranberry sauce and 20 with canned pumpkin. I alo came up with a pretty good Protein bar recipe using dried milk, Peanut Butter, honey and oatmeal. I think I even posted a varient on that here. Mostly, I came up with muffin and quick bread recipes.

Seriously, since Welfare and food stamps really don't exists anymore in the USA unless you have small kids, anyone in need should call their County Food Hotline (all US Counties have one - it's in the Govt pages of the phonebook) and get the addy of the nearest Food Bank. If it's a privately run food bank, so much the better.

Here in Los Angeles, the best and most nutritious food can be found at the Chabad food banks (They are a branch of Lubavitch Judaism). Out local Food Bank solicits donations from local community gardeners and so they hand out lots of fresh veggies as well as dry goods. They are very good and kind people. Most of their clients are on Social Security Disability and do not qualify for any other aid.

Best of luck to the OP. if you need to know what to do with canned cranberry sauce, I'm your gal.