@1forsorrow
I hope your parents are getting some help. That sounds such a difficult thing to cope with.
I do think it is great that people are being helped, the only thing that occurs to me is the people getting the boxes are presumably the ones who can get a delivery slot from Sainsburys but people like VanGoghsDog's parents are probably missing out on both.
Thank you. Dad has no appetite really anyway. Three weekends ago we were those terrible people who helped mum stock up with pasta and pasta sauce. A bit of extra cereal and some long life milk (to her horror). Before dad came out of hospital.
Her local shop is bringing some daily essentials like bread and milk and the golf club is bringing dinner, free, twice a week. Which is hilarious because my parents could not be more disdainful about golf if they tried!
I'm three hours away. I check in with her every day to ensure they're OK. I am a bit surprised they are not on the shielding list but I don't think they would have registered for the free box anyway. They are lucky to live in a small town where there seems to be plenty of support. And I follow the town Facebook page and send my mum any info she might find useful - like Saturday her corner shop posted that they had too much bread, so I texted that to mum and she could go there Sunday (she can just walk there and back, but can't carry much) and she said they'd told her on the phone they couldn't get her any bread until Tuesday, which was presumably before they realised they weren't going to sell all of Saturdays bread.
I don't think she would manage to register on the Sainsbury's site though.