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To think food banks aren’t fit for purpose

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ForFirmBiscuit · 24/06/2024 22:35

I don’t need to use a food bank but when I did they gave me tins of soup, a small tin of meat pie, a litre of UHT and a small bag of oats, nothing fresh. I didn’t get much and I was really hungry as there wasn’t enough calories and it was insubstantial. It gave me loads of anxiety to be so hungry. It’s always been like that.
I think food banks should be supplied by the council and given proper budgets for good food, even if they made batches of soup themselves to give out it would be more filling than a tin of soup

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chasegirl · 24/06/2024 22:42

Council tax would have to increase to cover this additional cost as the budgets are so tight already. Could mean more people struggling then needing food banks

Undisclosedlocation · 24/06/2024 22:42

Surely the answer isn’t better food banks!

The need for them should be properly addressed at source and eradicated.
Not that it will happen, obviously 🙄

CyanideShake · 24/06/2024 22:40

but then the government would be funding food banks, and of course they don't want to do that. the reason so many foodbanks have opened in the last decade is because of the current government. they're happy for their policies to necessitate the opening of so many foodbanks, stocked by private donations.

ShrinkingEveryDay · 24/06/2024 22:36

Storing and distributing fresh food is much more challenging than distributing tinned and packaged food 🙁🤷‍♀️

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