THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

mardatha

Yes Daz you should, as you need to replace your preps!

daz378

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herbily

daz378 wrote: »

Interesting moral question , say the contract finished and i had to sign on but would not be paid for 5 weeks , being a prepper with at least 2 month food , should i still use the foodbank?

Hate to break this to you, but you have to be referred to get a voucher for the foodbank, which gives you a three-day food supply, and the maximum you can get is two or three vouchers depending on where you live - so you'll still need your supplies, even with the food bank vouchers. (This applies to foodbanks run on Trussell Trust lines, which is most of them. Occasionally you might find a church-run one that has more generous limits, but they still won't be giving out five weeks of supplies.)


Edited to add: I'm hopeless on the moral issues, but on the purely practical side I'd say, don't let your cupboards run dry.


Foodbanks in this country are a very limited safety net, many are only open one or two days a week, and you've got to get the council/ CAB/ health worker to sponsor you. Not quite like putting your kids down for Eton [irony emoji needed here], but you do need to know the right people and plan ahead...

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tbh this turns my stomach, those that give to foodbanks want the food to go to the genuinely needy, not to be abused by those who don`t bother to plan ahead. I have seen obviously poor people putting goods into foodbank collections and I don`t know how you can even contemplate that daz

Cappella

Im sorry if this post offends anyone, that truly is not my intention.
I am on a monthly rota and help in our local church run food bank whenever they are short staffed:and despite the media hysteria about benefit scroungers I have to say that 99% of the people driven to seek help from us are genuinely in great need. Ok, they may have made bad decisions in the past which have led them into this - not an argument I want to get into here by the way - but some of their stories are heartbreaking.
Food banks are for the desperate, they really should not be used by anyone who has resources they can draw on themselves. They are not a right - at least not the sort of ‘right’ I would hope ever to need to use.
That being said I have been awed by the generosity of those who have very little themselves and yet drop off regular donations. It can be very humbling.

ivyleaf

daz - I agree you should use your preps in that situation - that is what they are for, emergencies

daz378

i said it was an interesting moral question and i would use my preps first , plus i have a good network of family and friends , so i hope i wouldnt need to use one, but i would if i had to

singlestep

It's something you should use if you ever need to, Daz. It's good that you have built up that cushion and it must be reassuring for you that you did.

Not everyone who ends up in the position you anticipate has had the ability or foresight to do that.

We had a food bank drive in the school I work in a while back. I took in what I normally contribute at my local supermarket plus a bit more. Glad I did as quite a few of my pupils were unable to bring in anything and we had to all take our contributions to a central location and at least they had something to take along. One or two had simply forgotten but a couple of them confided in me that they were from families that had to use the food bank.

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singlestep wrote: »

and we had to all take our contributions to a central location and at least they had something to take along.

HAD to take contributions?

I though charitable giving was supposed to be a voluntary thing?

singlestep

Exactly what I thought, Bob!

The organiser has an unfortunate way of putting things and so did I perhaps this evening!

I had to go with my stuff when my pupils did and if I had to go we all had to go. If I hadn't taken spares and quietly passed them on for them to 'help carry' as they came in through my door, they'd have gone empty-handed.