to go off piste with food bank donations, as they only list wanting junk food

[haveatarday]

At the shops now. The local food bank is only asking for junk food on their list (crisps, biscuits, pot noodles, pasta and sauce, corn flakes).

Aibu to not get these but get healthier stuff, like tinned fruit in natural juce, oats, mixed seeds etc?

The brown rice and kidney beans could be stired into the tomatoes soup I gave and heated in a bowl like a bain-marie over the kettle. This would turn a soup into a fulling, nutritious meal.

Definitely a wind-up, then. The bain-marie was just a step too far for me.

Ok, at risk of derailing and also of sounding like a cliché, would a FB take poncey jam?! We've been given lovely and expensive jams, marmalades etc for Christmas but none of us are ever going to eat Bucks Fizz Marmalade(!! TBF, none of us would eat marmalade without the Buck's Fizz either), lemon curd or other 'treats'. DH wants to put them straight in the bin, to pre-empt us doing so in 2 years' time.

Sooo... Would a FB think we were patronising the recipients or is it possible someone out there might really like it on their toast?!

I've also got a load of disposable nappies left over now DC2 is out of them, I guess those are always acceptable! What about nappies out of the packet though, can I give 20 or so left from a massive box in a clear plastic zip bag, or would that be a problem?

I've heard it all now, mashed kidney bean canapes! Every hungry child's dream meal!

You can heat the nappies over a kettle to provide a tasty receptacle for your kidney beans.

I put hot chocolate in ours before Christmas. I don't give a monkeys it's not nutritious.
And I put cornflakes last week.

The list had hot drinks and cereal on it. That's what I got.

YABVU

I smell BS.

How is your recipe 2 of your 5 a day ?

A dash of tomatoe purée and a little chopped isnt a portion of fruit or veg

Am I missing something ? Of course I'm not an expert on nutrition so I might be

This is starting to sound like a Viz top tips column.

You could crumble up the oat cakes and stir them into the cold soup as "croutons" and then fling it all at the wall while crying at the immense cuntery of someone giving such shit awful food to a foodbank.

You sod! You are on the wind up!

As an aside, how has a relatively wealthy country like ours now normalised food banks? How quickly we accept poverty. It makes me want to march on Parliament with a pitch fork.

OP surely this is a wind up thread?

Blackbird If they can't be donated, then a volunteer might use them and replace them with something that can be used.

I don't know about nappies. Maybe give your local FB or Trussell a call directly and ask?

I put in some loo roll when it's on the list, after reading the heartbreaking story of an older lady who used her old books so she could afford cat food. The article said how she cried when she was given 6 loo rolls having been referred to the FB by social services. I can't believe that, in this day and age, I am living in a First World society where this is happening.

How is one to carry all those tins and an onion out of the foodbank while walking backwards tugging on one's forelock?

Ok, now I've read the whole thread, I'm pretty sure the OP is taking the piss.

Blackbird, I think they would appreciate the thought. As long as they have the basic, everyday foodstuffs in stock too, who wouldn't want a nice bit of jam or marmalade?

Oh stop it op! You are using the existance of food banks, and therefore extreme poverty, as a source of fun and amusement. I'm failing to see the humour now.

Sending you a po-faced stare now.

The food bank knows what's wanted and needed, also what's easily and quickly converted to a meal. Give them what they ask for.

I'm confused by some people, they say people are starving but at the same time wouldn't eat my healthy and tasty no cook kidney bean oat cakes.

Okay. Pegged now. Wind up. Has to be. Absolutely has to be.

The OP's name is interesting as well.

Haveatarday - are you so hell-bent on being right that you would rather give the food bank stuff that they do not need or want than give them something their clients might actually be able to use?

DH (ex military) says what they're asking for sounds like the standard fare for 'emergency rations'. quick, easy, high calorie, low fuel/tool requirement. Standard field rations (different from regular rations) include instant meals, biscuits, chocolate and boiled sweets.

Blackbird, poncy jam is still jam IMO.

This thread has made me so angry - if its a wind-up I'm going to hunt you down OP - be afraid, be very afraid.

On the plus side I am wondering if the local food bank need a volunteer.