16-12-2019, 08:16 AM
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Aldi is going to give away food
Christmas Eve .There must be charities out there who could use it I suppose if they are ready on Christmas Eve.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifest...y8OHA_ZNM3-usA
16-12-2019, 09:10 AM
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Re: Aldi is going to give away food
Originally Posted by Muddy
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Christmas Eve .There must be charities out there who could use it I suppose if they are ready on Christmas Eve.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifest...y8OHA_ZNM3-usA
16-12-2019, 01:57 PM
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To be fair some supermarkets do donate to Food bankshttps://www.thegrocer.co.uk/food-was...597063.article
16-12-2019, 03:25 PM
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Re: Aldi is going to give away food
Originally Posted by Twink55
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All supermarkets should give fresh food away, that they haven't sold, otherwise it is wasted.
16-12-2019, 03:45 PM
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You people are so out of touch regarding foodbanks, poverty etc.Supermarkets have been donating excess food that hasn't been sold for years now.
Go Google the Fareshare website.
If Aldi is just starting to do it, good on them but they are years behind their competitors.
Sadly this whole process doesn't work that well.
A lot of excess food are things like bags of donuts and pastries that are going out of date. Whilst the street people will happily eat this stuff it's not a good diet for them.
Other times the supermarkets give you a crate load of old cabbages or some other veg that is about to go out of date. What are people supposed to do with that? Make cabbage soup ?
Having worked in support centres cooking weekly meals for up to 20+ people I know how useless these supermarket donations generally are for charities and help centres. To cook effectively and efficiently for large numbers of people you need a guaranteed set of ingredients and a requisite quantity of them for the number of people you are feeding.
A hotch potch of different items here and there doesn't cut it.
I have tried operating via the "Ready Steady Cook" see what's in the bag approach and it doesn't work.
Cooking meals for street people requires a level of preplanning and organisation. You can't do that if you have no idea what supermarkets are going to toss you and when most of the time there's not a consistent amount of anything to make a reasonable meal.
Aside from that I come back to the same old point about charities, support centres who are providing services to street people. All we are doing is making that lifestyle more and more comfortable and attractive such that those people are happy to keep living it. These people need proper rehab to get them off drink and drug addictions, not cosy pandering with constant hot meals and drinks.
16-12-2019, 04:54 PM
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Re: Aldi is going to give away food
Originally Posted by Realist
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You people are so out of touch regarding foodbanks, poverty etc.*
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Aside from that I come back to the same old point about charities, support centres who are providing services to street people. All we are doing is making that lifestyle more and more comfortable and attractive such that those people are happy to keep living it. These people need proper rehab to get them off drink and drug addictions, not cosy pandering with constant hot meals and drinks.
And how do you suggest 'proper rehab' is best done?
16-12-2019, 05:58 PM
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Re: Aldi is going to give away food
Originally Posted by Mups
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And how do you suggest 'proper rehab' is best done?
Doing that would immediately mean less police time wasted being 'councillors' etc. This would also mean 'druggies' and alcoholics would not need to clog up the A&E departments in hospitals as they do. The longer-term benefits would also be that these people could find useful roles in society, there would also be less crime as there would not be all these people having to steal to feed their habits.
There are ways and means, if only government would see what is happening in society, rather than just concentrating on living their own privileged lives and lining their own nests, while blaming others for what is happening!
16-12-2019, 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Realist
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You people are so out of touch regarding foodbanks, poverty etc.Supermarkets have been donating excess food that hasn't been sold for years now.
Go Google the Fareshare website.
If Aldi is just starting to do it, good on them but they are years behind their competitors.
Sadly this whole process doesn't work that well.
A lot of excess food are things like bags of donuts and pastries that are going out of date. Whilst the street people will happily eat this stuff it's not a good diet for them.
Other times the supermarkets give you a crate load of old cabbages or some other veg that is about to go out of date. What are people supposed to do with that? Make cabbage soup ?
Having worked in support centres cooking weekly meals for up to 20+ people I know how useless these supermarket donations generally are for charities and help centres. To cook effectively and efficiently for large numbers of people you need a guaranteed set of ingredients and a requisite quantity of them for the number of people you are feeding.
A hotch potch of different items here and there doesn't cut it.
I have tried operating via the "Ready Steady Cook" see what's in the bag approach and it doesn't work.
Cooking meals for street people requires a level of preplanning and organisation. You can't do that if you have no idea what supermarkets are going to toss you and when most of the time there's not a consistent amount of anything to make a reasonable meal.
Aside from that I come back to the same old point about charities, support centres who are providing services to street people. All we are doing is making that lifestyle more and more comfortable and attractive such that those people are happy to keep living it. These people need proper rehab to get them off drink and drug addictions, not cosy pandering with constant hot meals and drinks.
What to do with a random selection of vegetables late at night .
Actually soup is probably the best bet .
As we cannot provide adequate rehab - rebab must require a certain amount of cooperation from the people concerned we may as well provide food for them .
As I am sure you know the life expectancy of rough sleepers is not long .
I am glad to hear that all supermarkets give away stuff .
It may not be the perfect diet but it’s food .
16-12-2019, 07:50 PM
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I am surprised that supermarkets let the homeless have out of day food. With Health and Safety rules and people suing them, you'd think they wouldn’t allow it?I only say this, as l once picked up a Thornton’s chocolate cake in a supermarket and noticed it was one day out of date. The manager said, they had to dump it in case someone bought it, was ill and sued them
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