Flash G 74
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Hello, you want to see the cars parked out side the local food bank here 
Food banks
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I know, right? I mean, I even eat stuff that I find wandering about in the countryside
nun_hunter
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If you're struggling to pay for food you probably want basmati rice that cooks in 10 mins or less rather than long grain at 25 mins or more and extra gas/electricity.
I worked for Oxfam for a good few years, they spent money like it was going out of fashion in the UK head office. One example, design team all want new monitors for their macs. Oh, we bought the monitors with the wrong connectors, oh well, let's buy everyone new Macs that will work with the new monitors.
I will say that the guys who worked in the field and especially those from African nations really looked after their kit, and would try and keep it running for as long as they could. When it was time for an upgrade they had to be quite literally forced to swap devices because they didn't see the need. Very different attitudes.
Rake Aboot
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No need for food banks in this country and I’d never donate to one
Distribution of free food to avoid waste is one thing but food banks , nope don’t think so .
Distribution of free food to avoid waste is one thing but food banks , nope don’t think so .
Yep. I shudder to think of how much perfectly good food ends up in supermarket skips. Why isn't that distributed to the genuinely needy, I wonder?
Edited to add:
Food Waste Facts
We waste an eye-watering amount of food each year in the UK. We can all play our part to eliminate food waste. Discover some shocking food waste facts.
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They're not struggling for food. They're taking the ****. Long grain rice doesn't take 25mins to cook.
Because it's fresh food and it goes to waste because chavs won't buy or even shoplift it. It's not the sort of processed junk they want.Yep. I shudder to think of how much perfectly good food ends up in supermarket skips. Why isn't that distributed to the genuinely needy, I wonder?
Edited to add:
Food Waste Facts
We waste an eye-watering amount of food each year in the UK. We can all play our part to eliminate food waste. Discover some shocking food waste facts.
maximus otter
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Why are there so many fat people in pictures of food banks?
If you’re going to take advantage of a food bank, at least have the good grace to look a bit peckish and skeletal
"...I had actually tapped in to my search engine: ‘Photographs of people getting stuff from food banks’, which I was sure would cheer me up for a while. But, strangely, there are very few such shots available. There are plenty of photographs of do-gooders handing out crates of food, smiling beatifically and with halos around their heads, but very few of the actual customers. And when, after exhaustive searching, I did find three or four such pictures, I was filled not with glee but instead with an unquenchable anger.
You see, the one thing all the people in those photographs had in common is that they were morbidly obese. Very, very, fat indeed. It occurred to me that these people had already spent vast amounts of money on food and had dropped by the local food bank for a freebie top-up. They didn’t look as if they were, you know, starving. They looked as though they were well and truly sated already. First they had cleared out Morrisons and then they had cleared out the stuff which Morrisons had itself cleared out to the local food bank.
And so it seems incontestable that, far from providing an invaluable last-course resource for the nation’s poorest people, these food banks are actually exacerbating the country’s appalling obesity problem. If you’re going to take advantage of a food bank, at least have the good grace to look a bit peckish and skeletal. Don’t waddle in there sweating with exertion having just swallowed 14 bacon double cheeseburgers, super-size fries and a vat of coke."
Rod Liddle in the Spectator, 13.12.14
maximus otter
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David Miliband has been handed an annual pay package of more than $1.25million (£1million) by an aid charity heavily funded by British taxpayers
In 2022, 77 people died in England and wales as a consequence of being malnourished. There are many explanations as to why someone becomes malnourished: for example, they may have cancer of the digestive tract, which means they can't eat properly or can't absorb nutrients; they may have suffered from a stroke or have advanced dementia which can cause difficulties chewing and swallowing; or they may abuse alcohol and so not eat properly. These are just examples, there are many more medical reasons.
So the number of people that die in England and wales as a result of malnutrition that is not as a consequence of other disease is vanishingly small.
In my view food banks simply allow a large number of people to choose to spend their money on non food items as their food costs are supplemented by society through the food bank system. Don’t get me wrong, I grew up in social housing in some of the most deprived areas of the country. I know what poverty is. And I also know that we got by fine without food banks.
Like Africa, if you keep handing out charity you grow dependency.
What people and society needs on the other hand is for people to be independent of charity. So stop with the handouts.
So the number of people that die in England and wales as a result of malnutrition that is not as a consequence of other disease is vanishingly small.
In my view food banks simply allow a large number of people to choose to spend their money on non food items as their food costs are supplemented by society through the food bank system. Don’t get me wrong, I grew up in social housing in some of the most deprived areas of the country. I know what poverty is. And I also know that we got by fine without food banks.
Like Africa, if you keep handing out charity you grow dependency.
What people and society needs on the other hand is for people to be independent of charity. So stop with the handouts.
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It was hard enough to take the sight of clearly very well off types rolling up in their large chelsea tractors, but, being told by a very obnoxious asian "lady" (I had to assume its gender, it was genuinely hard to tell) that the rice in her food parcel was fit only for pigs and that she wanted "blue bag basmati" was the last straw
I left on the spot never to be fooled into helping out food banks again either directly or indirectly
Working in a homeless centre was better, even the smackheads generally had better manners and seemed more civilised than the entitled chancers at the food bank
I used to waste my time volunteering at a local food bank
It was hard enough to take the sight of clearly very well off types rolling up in their large chelsea tractors, but, being told by a very obnoxious asian "lady" (I had to assume its gender, it was genuinely hard to tell) that the rice in her food parcel was fit only for pigs and that she wanted "blue bag basmati" was the last straw
I left on the spot never to be fooled into helping out food banks again either directly or indirectly
Working in a homeless centre was better, even the smackheads generally had better manners and seemed more civilised than the entitled chancers at the food bank
where I live there is the food bank which is for needy people who I believe are referred and have vouchers to access the food, there is also what's called the community fridge this is run by volunteers and is food items that are on the sale by date and would otherwise be binned fruit, veg bakery and other items, it is open to anyone, you can fill a normal shopping bag and if you want more go to the back of the queue and go round again to fill another bag. Brilliant in helping good food go to waste I think, I've not used it yet though.
We weren't poor by any stretch, but we certainly didn't have a lot of money. Mum was a pretty good cook though and we never went hungry. We managed chicken once a week, jelly and ice cream as a treat, no fizzy drinks, no multipacks of crisps, Mars bars, etc.
And as a student I had no money, and I mean none whatsoever, for about three weeks. I had a smartprice kettle, a few packs of spaghetti, and various jars of pesto. So that's what I lived on. Still can't stand the bloody stuff, even thirty years later
Rake Aboot
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My son told me about an app where companies sell off a bag of goods that would go to waste for a fiver.
Him and my grandson gave it go for a laugh , obviously they went for Greggs and some donut shop but by Christ the bag they got was big likes , and stuffed
Apparently the same can be used to by fresh foods
Him and my grandson gave it go for a laugh , obviously they went for Greggs and some donut shop but by Christ the bag they got was big likes , and stuffed
Apparently the same can be used to by fresh foods
Morkai
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A girl at work does the Greggs one through the app.
You get a fair bit, luck of the draw what it is but I'm not fussy.
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