Re: Aldi is going to give away food
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A lot of excess food are things like bags of donuts and pastries that are going out of date.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Other times the supermarkets give you a crate load of old cabbages or some other veg that is about to go out of date.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.