What to donate to foodbank at Christmas

monnagran

I help to run a church based food bank and the first packet of biscuits that was donated I offered to a woman who came in. She was incredulous and said, "If I have a biscuit with a cup of tea that will make me a normal person, won't it?" Since then we have made sure that there are always enough small treats for every one who comes in to have one. We do get tins of sweets donated at Christmas but we try to ensure that they go to families while single people have a bar of chocolate or something similar. And we have ALWAYS had dog and cat food to give out. Most of the people who come in would rather feed their pets than themselves.

I think it is the matter of trying to stand in someone else's shoes and look at life through their eyes. If a simple thing like a biscuit or sweet encourages a feeling that everyone is worth something it can only be a good thing.

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Butterfly_Brain

It seems increasingly that the neediest in society are being made to feel like they are subhuman, what has happened to this once fair country? :mad::mad::mad:

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Whatever you do give and whatever spirit it is given in, whoever recieves it will be fed and more comfortable over this christmas period, and throughout the coming year so a HUGE THANK YOU to each and every one of you that has given freely, whatever has been donated will be a small step towards making a fellow human being feel loved again, Lyn xxx.

meg72

BobQ wrote: »

I think there must be an element of fairness here. If the FB can take goods that are on a specified list its far easier to make up parcels of similar staple foods (or indeed special Xmas items). Having one pack with a big tin of chocolates is not fair on others they may feel and may create questions when someone visits and sees the person before them get a box of chocolates they are not offered.

But that's life isn`t, I think most people grow up and out of the habit of yelling that's not fair. I remember my Nan answering one of my childish tantrums with the comment, " Well whoever told you life is fair, it isn't so get on with it."