More New Yorkers are running out of food to feed their families — an uncertainty that was exacerbated this month after an unprecedented freeze on federal food assistance left people in limbo for two weeks.

With Thanksgiving approaching and SNAP funds resumed, families are figuring out how to stock their fridges, pay their end-of-the-month bills and still enjoy holiday meals. A new report by the anti-poverty group Robin Hood and Columbia University last week found families with children facing food insecurity are short an average of $205 a week. The report found more than one in three adult New Yorkers and four out of 10 families with children need more money for food.

“The data confirms that we are in the midst of an affordability crisis where New Yorkers even well above the poverty line are increasingly struggling to afford food,” said Ryan Vinh, one of the authors of the report and a research analyst at Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy.

Gothamist asked our audience for tips on a Google form and on air, and more than a dozen readers and listeners responded with their best strategies from asking grocers for a deal to substituting pineapple juice for maple syrup. Reporters also interviewed shoppers outside stores for their best tips.