I agree that people stamping their feet and demanding is unreasonable, but in general, very, very few people take the unreasonable stance that other people should go out of their way to provide the most expensive items available. The danger of a thread like this is that it contains the germ of an idea that many people using food banks are likely to be CFs taking the piss, demanding items above and beyond what donors can afford to give, and who might turn up their noses at affordable donations. It is far too easy to divide and conquer the British public by introducing the concept of entitlement into a discussion on charity, or welfare, or any area where there are perceived to be recipients and donors.
The interpretation that these specific people are entitled CFs because they asked for Oatly isn't necessarily the one true version of events here. They might have used Oatly as shorthand for a grain-based milk the way people use the word hoover in British English, or kleenex in American English. They might have a family member with autism who has very specific food preferences or a very low tolerance level for change to their diet. They might have allergies. They might have a very limited number of pots, pans, herbs, and spices in their kitchen, veggies growing in their garden and recipes in their collection, and might need specific beans, seeds, etc, to work with what they already have. These people asking for specific beans, nuts, and seeds might have specific dishes in mind for those ingredients that might last a week, whereas a tin of soup or a jar of pasta sauce might not. Just because you don't know what they might do with them doesn't mean that they are asking for luxury items that have no place in a nutritious diet.
The disparagement shown toward vegan dietary restrictions based on conscience, whether religious or secular in origin, reveals the eyebrow-raising assumption that only omnivores contribute to food banks. It is likely that people of many different faiths and none, and many different dietary preferences contribute to food banks. It is likely that in some areas food banks exist because of the civic spiritedness of people who are not omnivorous.
The question of 'deserving' or 'not deserving' and the deep suspicion that people are getting something for nothing when some of them shouldn't be is one that crops up frequently on threads to do with food banks (and charity generally) in the UK. I do not see that concept getting anything like that much airing on forums or online groups based elsewhere. It's very curious.