Nearly 400 Coast Guard families showed up at a Massachusetts food pantry set up to help families and members of the only branch of the military that is working without pay during Trump's partial government shutdown.

The Massachusetts Military Support Foundation opened up a pop-up food pantry in Boston earlier in the week to provide groceries for hundreds of Massachusetts-based Coast Guard families to help see them through the upcoming paycheck-less period they are facing.

Coast Guard members were on hand to offload about 30,000 pounds of groceries, medicine and other sundries from trucks and onto shelves in a cafeteria for people to avail themselves of, according to NPR.

Almost 400 families stopped by the Boston-based pop-up pantry organized by the Massachusetts Military Support Foundation during it's first two days of being open

'We've been hit hard with the baby food, the diapers. I mean it's just a tidal wave' of people in need,' Massachusetts Military Support Foundation president Don Cox said.

In the first two days of the pop-up being open, Cox said almost 400 families stopped by for supplies. He said that the group's regular Cape Cod pantry has already given out more in two days than it traditionally does in a month's time.

The items being given out are said to have been donated by local businesses and foundations, such as Ocean State Job Lot, the Patriots foundation, Shaw's Supermarkets and the Greater Boston Food Bank.

Donations to the statewide group's GoFundMe page have also helped.

So far, 52,000 pounds of food have been donated.

Cox told ConnectingVets.com that with the pantry, Coast Guardsmen and women won't 'have to worry about where their next meal is coming from.'

Coasties were on hand to set up 30,000 of the 52,000 pounds of food that has been donated so far to help feed Coast Guard families going without pay during the government shutdown

The organization has already given out more food in two days than it usually does in a month

The organization's goal is to provide food to the families to help lighten their load during the shutdown when they don't know when their next paychecks will be arriving

The food from the pantry will allow the Coast Guard families to use their limited funds for other necessities. One Coast Guard wife said the supplies were 'a little weight lifted off of me'

With no guaranteed delivery date for their next paychecks, Cox said, the Coasties will have to shoulder the burden of trying to figure out how they're going to scrape together the funds for car payments, rent and other necessities, but 'we're at least making sure they can take care of their family and can feed their family and take that burden off their plate.'

Coast Guard wife and mother of two, Jenny James, told NPR that she was 'blown away' after going to the pantry and seeing the available supplies and that it's 'actually very relieving' to know that they are there for her.

She said that she has stopped buying things that aren't crucial for the family, but being able to go to the pantry means that she can save the cash the family has on hand for other necessities.

'It's very comforting to know a little weight lifted off of me having to worry about putting food on the table,' James said.

The organization said that it is currently feeding 2,000 families, but that the number could double or triple depending on how long the shutdown continues.

The Massachusetts Military Support Foundation also runs a day care center on Cape Cod, which is providing military families in need with clothing, food, diapers, and even pacifiers and rattles, Cox told the Boston Globe.

The Coast Guard's suggestions for how its unpaid Coasties should attempt to make ends meet during the partial government shutdown recently made headlines after a tip sheet surfaced telling families to hold garage sales, sell items online, babysit or walk dogs to make money to hold them over.

The tip sheet was removed from the Coast Guard Support Program's website shortly after news organizations became aware of its existence.

A Coast Guard service spokesperson told the Washington Post that the 'guidance' was removed because its tips did not 'reflect the Coast Guard’s current efforts to support our workforce during this lapse in appropriations.'

The partial government shutdown began on December 22. Friday is the first day that impacted government employees have received zero sum paychecks.

Coast Guard salaries are covered by the Department of Homeland Security, unlike the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps, which are covered by the Defense Department.