Food bank trolley

Do you put food in ?
I have to say I don’t and have never seen anyone else put stuff in .
I think the supermarkets do .
Perhaps I will for Lent .

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I will sometimes throw in some non perishables, Cans and bottles of stuff etc. The trolley in our supermarket always has plenty in it. I volunteer at the local shelter a couple of times a month. More often than the trolley I will take things I have cooked in to donate to the kitchen. I love cooking so why not.

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I used to do a whole trolley of stuff every Christmas and leave the trolley next to the one that was there for donations.

I didn't do it this year or the year before because my tesco wasn't doing the food bank scheme as far as I could tell. I looked around but nothing there.

I used to get a present for kids in homes too but stopped when my eldest reached 18.

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I put in a few tins and a box of cereal for the kids mostly.

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We are often met by a team from our local food bank who hand out a list of things they would like ..It ranges form a carton of milk to a jar of peanut butter from pasta to coffee and there is always something that most people can afford.

I always support them.
At Christmas Lidl here did a great collection you scanned a ticket at the checkout to pay for one of 4 breakfast items to make a Christmas breakfast basket and for each full basket Lidl dontated one of their luxury kerst stollen.

In total 42,000 breakfast baskets were donated so that familes who rely on foodbanks had a Christmas breakfast basket to enjoy.

In recent years Ive stopped sending cards to all those on FB and odd relatives I never hear from and instead I double the stamp/card money and donate it to the foodbank. I think it does more good there than a card to someone who doesnt care or doesnt even remember me.

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I did a shoe box thing this Christmas organised locally
You filled a shoebox with small items ( no food allowed) such as toys and clothes ie gloves and woolly hats .and it went to Calais for the kids still hanging about in camps there .
Much as I dislike the way immigrants are trying to come illegally to this country it’s not the children’s fault and Christmas in the tent camps must be pretty bleak .

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I have put things in but can't now because I don't go to shops.

I have given my Daughter in law food to cook with , she cooks for the homeless and someone collects it.

My 10 year old grandson won some selection boxes at Christmas to the value 0f £10 , he put those in which I thought was kind of him

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My 5 grandchildren all do shoe boxes. My DIL doesn't collect the child allowance either, she doesn't thing you should take it unless you need to .

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Absolutely NOT. People are given tax payers money sufficient to live on in the form of what I consider are overgenerous "Benefits" aka tax payer hand outs. They should live within their means. If they can't then change the way that they live.

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But sometimes things happen....I know a couple, and a family, who have lost their jobs due to this pandemic, having to wait weeks and weeks for their UC claim to get sorted out. Ordinary hard working people using a foodbank for the first time in their lives. Its awful - especially if you have kids.