Covid-19 began as a public health crisis and has implications for food security. The State of Food Security & Nutrition in the World 2021 report notes that the pandemic has made it harder to achieve food security, the 2020 estimate for the prevalence of undernourishment was between 9.2 to 10.4%. Even before the pandemic, India accounted for the highest number of undernourished people in the world. Two pillars of food security are access and availability. The access can be improved by increasing the incomes of consumers or making the grains cheaper. The Public Distribution System (PDS) does the latter by subsidizing food grains. In a time of declining availability of food grains and access due to a fall in income levels, the government scheme has the potential to ensure food security. This scheme has been extended multiple times since March 2020, most recently till March 2022.Thus, measuring its impact in Chhattisgarh is a fruitful exercise. This paper aims to answer the following question: does the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Ann Yojana, which guarantees households 5 kilograms of free rice or wheat and 1 kilogram of pulses, improves food security in Chhattisgarh? Ideally, the provisioning of free rice and wheat (cereals) should cause a shift in food expenditure away from cereals to other food groups.