To think food banks aren’t fit for purpose

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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

Good riddance!

What a thoroughly unpleasant interaction this has been.

Hopefully the next time you are having a hard time people will donate out of their own pocket things you deem worthy.

I see you and raise you 2 years.

Food banks are a community effort. They can only give out what is donated, and if there is more demand than supply, either they run a waiting list, or they try to help everyone who needs it with smaller food parcels.

I’ve got sympathy for you feeling miserable but as others have said, direct your anger towards the politicians that allowed us to get to this point, of a low wage economy. Punish them at the ballot box.