Who doesn't have a stock cupboard

prepareathome

Our nearest is 6 miles I hope I never have to walk to it or any of the people we helped the other week as its a long walk with part of it up a very, very steep hill that usually buses stop using once there any snow or ice around......going up and down that twice in the winter would be a nightmare if you had young children or were not to good on your legs.

quintwins

We don't have food banks here, however i remeber reading a article in one of the big papers about food banks and thinking wow thats alot of food for one person for 3 days i could make that last a week for all of us. i'll see if i can find it....ok i can't find it

prepareathome i think it's really good that 1000 people near you gave £1 each, when things are tight £1 is alot for some people, after all £1 could buy 8 tins of rice pudding .

Confuzzled

prepareathome wrote: »

Our nearest is 6 miles I hope I never have to walk to it or any of the people we helped the other week as its a long walk with part of it up a very, very steep hill that usually buses stop using once there any snow or ice around......going up and down that twice in the winter would be a nightmare if you had young children or were not to good on your legs.

i was curious and looked up the information also sent it to a friend who lives quite some distance from here that it may help as for rural people i found this http://www.trusselltrust.org/how-it-works

'Some foodbanks also run a rural delivery service, which takes emergency foodboxes to clients living in rural areas who cannot afford to get to a foodbank.'

and as for who can give the vouchers needed to participate

'Frontline care professionals identify people in need
Care professionals such as doctors, health visitors, social workers, CAB and police identify people in crisis and issue them with a foodbank voucher.'

sounds like there are some others available too so it's worth looking up if you or someone you know needs it. i have benefited from food banks twice in my distant past (after i'd used up all my stores) and i personally found that once you get the voucher you need the hard and possibly embarrassing part is over. the people that volunteer and give the food out tend to be lovely and friendly.

we don't have one near us here but when we move next year if we are closer to one i would like for my daughter and myself to volunteer to work with one, i think it would be an excellent experience for us both, and good to be giving back a little to people in general rather than just our family.

~Chameleon~

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Chameleon, most of us on here are on low income, disabled, sick, with young families or just worried sick of what next year will bring, will we lose our benefits, jobs, have enough to live on and pay the bills? We are just like minded people, who have lived through recessions, redundancy/ loss of job, illness, unexpected bills for car etc who need the security of a stock cupboard, a lot of us have been in the situation where we have worried ourselves sick how we were going to feed the family or pay the bills. Those of us who are disabled benefit from not having to go out in the winter where we would be at risk of falling and having broken bones, which compounds on other health problems.
If you have ever been in that situation, you never want to be there again. So we keep enough food in to last a month or two, but that all helps if anything unexpected crops up. It can take a month and maybe more to get any help from the benefit system, until then you are basically on your own. We don't panic buy, we eat what we store and rotate and replace every time we use something. In a lot of cases it has taken a good year to be able to afford that few extra tins, pkts, meat or frozen stuff, we certainly haven't got the funds to pay for it all at once, a couple of bits every week is how we have done it, no panic buying , just rational and reasoned being prepared..
It is about being prepared for as many eventualities as you can including a couple of months, mortgage and bill money put aside. I keep a penny jar and all loose change goes in that and it helps with little extras like paying for glasses (My last pair plus reading glasses cost £500:eek:), prescription prepayments £104 and dentist bills :eek::eek::eek::eek:and sometimes if we are lucky a couple of days away.

I wasn't talking about those who keep a healthy stock cupboard for emergencies, I do myself, and yes I'm one of the people you describe above. However, I have read several posts claiming that supermarkets are running out of tinned & frozen veg, for example, and that could only happen if people were panic buying induced by threads such as this because they suddenly fear everything will sell out before they can buy more.

This then causes a great inconvenience to those of us who are disabled and perhaps can't get out to the shops often resulting in half the grocery order being cancelled due to items being unavailable. If people are just adding a couple of extra tins or whatever a week to their normal order then fine, but some people here are hoarding enough goods to feed an army for an entire year!!! :rotfl:

Popperwell

On another thread someone posted this link, as that person said depressing but interesting...

I ask "Is this the Big Society working?" and by the British public giving as they always do which shows that we do care, on the other hand does this give the State the excuse to avoid some of it's responsibilities.

Cheap shot coming but I wonder if any of our Government Ministers give anything privately or just never give any of this a thought.

Food Banks

Popperwell

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

I wasn't talking about those who keep a healthy stock cupboard for emergencies, I do myself, and yes I'm one of the people you describe above. However, I have read several posts claiming that supermarkets are running out of tinned & frozen veg, for example, and that could only happen if people were panic buying induced by threads such as this because they suddenly fear everything will sell out before they can buy more.

This then causes a great inconvenience to those of us who are disabled and perhaps can't get out to the shops often resulting in half the grocery order being cancelled due to items being unavailable. If people are just adding a couple of extra tins or whatever a week to their normal order then fine, but some people here are hoarding enough goods to feed an army for an entire year!!! :rotfl:

Or they are not keeping on top of their ordering of stock or they have some problem in their supply chain...It could be that some supermarkets are given priority over others...

Butterfly_Brain

quintwins wrote: »

We don't have food banks here, however i remeber reading a article in one of the big papers about food banks and thinking wow thats alot of food for one person for 3 days i could make that last a week for all of us. i'll see if i can find it....ok i can't find it

prepareathome i think it's really good that 1000 people near you gave £1 each, when things are tight £1 is alot for some people, after all £1 could buy 8 tins of rice pudding .

I think that you will find that list is for a family not for one person

Butterfly_Brain

Chameleon have you read the papers, listened to the radio and watched TV today? The media is more to blame for panic buying than any Osers on this board. They are screaming milk shortages today because of a blockade last night, so it will be the same as the petrol debacle tomorrow, watch and see.

quintwins

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

I think that you will find that list is for a family not for one person

no it was for one person they also showed a family who had slightly more, but it was cereal, bag of pasta,bag of rice, beans, soup, uht milk, rice pudding and custard, tinned fruit, squash, pasta sauce, tinned tom, kidney beans, value curry sauce, bag of sugar, tea bags, biccys and a few other bits, i only remeber because i sent a link to someone else i know who's just as frugal as me and she agreed it was alot for one person. I guess the problem is with packet sizes, a bag of pasta and a jar of sauce could do 2 meals for one person but they can't give out half jars and bags ect

~Chameleon~

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Chameleon have you read the papers, listened to the radio and watched TV today? The media is more to blame for panic buying than any Osers on this board. They are screaming milk shortages today because of a blockade last night, so it will be the same as the petrol debacle tomorrow, watch and see.

I haven't to be honest but then I tend to avoid the news where possible as it's too damned depressing the majority of the time. I don't drink milk so it wouldn't affect me but can see it'll be a problem for those with young families. Perhaps shops & supermarkets should do the sensible thing and ration the amount one can buy so there's enough to around rather than just the lucky few stockpiling it for themselves

Oh and if it's anything to do with the farmers not being paid enough to supply the milk then I'm in full support of them