What to do with unwanted formula?

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I really don't want to throw 8 x bottles of ready-mix Aptamil formula away, but nobody wants it. I've contacted 2 food banks locally - no reply, and just now I tried to list them for free on fb marketplace but got a message saying the listing goes against their rules. I bought them to give my granddaughter when my daughter needed a stay in hospital and we ran out of expressed milk. It seems such a waste to dump them.

Food bank bin in a supermarket?

Food banks generally won’t give them out.

Nursery or hospital but tbh after a while how
Much effort should you have to make not to waste

Give them to your daughter to use? Your granddaughter could still drink them.

Olio app?

Can't your daughter use them to make porridge or something? They usually have quite a long life.

Put them on your local Facebay/ Freebay page?

Do you have a baby bank locally?
If you put them in the food bank box at the supermarket, even if they can't use them they could pass them on to an organisation that could.
Failing that, can you give them to your daughter - even if she's breastfeeding, she could use them in porridge, cereal etc.

I gave mine to Tesco food bank

I'd give them to her to use in cereal and in food

There's a shortage of the ready made ones at the moment so don't waste them :D

Give to DD to ask around her friends - she may know someone with a younger baby who might want them?

If marketplace has removed it then you could just put a post on your page and ask people to share it I've seen a lot of people do this with formula. Ready made formula was a godsend at times when I had my newborn I'm sure someone will be happy to take it off your hands.

I had exactly this problem recently. No food banks in my area will take formula of any kind.
I had some nappies that I listed for free on Facebook marketplace and I then just offered the formula to anyone that messaged me privately about collecting the nappies - only way I could think of doing it.

Thanks for all the suggestions. I read somewhere yesterday that food banks won't take formula. Daughter lives hours away so I'd have to parcel up and send them to her. I'll see if there's a baby bank locally.

I had this issue. Couldn't even give it away for free on Facebook (kept blocking the ad I was making!). I ended up giving to a friend who just had a baby but try looking for local charities who help vulnerable women and babies, they take what they can get.

You can put them on fb you just have to be creative in your wording

Freecycle / freegle

What about Olio? It's an app for giving away free stuff.

Can someone explain why food banks won't accept formula? I never knew this and quite shocked!

I put mine on a local Facebook group and someone was happy to have it; groups are different to Facebook marketplace and the local one I’m on didn’t have an issue with me posting on it

@Freecuthbert I asked a food bank and it’s because all babies are on different formulas and when they put together food parcels they don’t necessarily know which they’re on - I’m not sure why they couldn’t just phone when they know there’s a baby in the home but I guess it takes extra time and work and you might then have some families asking for formula who don’t get it and some who do

Try your local Home Start.

There's a national shortage of ready made aptamil at the mo. Someone will bite your hand off for them!

Where are you? I'll have it! Can't buy it for love nor money at the moment.

More seriously, are there any other Facebook groups you could try? Often see this sort of message on a couple of local mums' ones near me. Posts selling/giving aren't generally allowed, but because it's in such short supply right now, lots of people are offering what they've got to help others out and it's being allowed.

I gave mine away on a Facebook freecycle group