Do you remember me talking about a reverse advent? I have been getting inexpensive shower gel, some toothpaste, a box of biscuits, mince pies, some tubs of Quality Street and Roses, which I split up and packaged prettily, and a few other treats.
On Friday I went off to the nearest foodbank. Goodness, Hailsham is busy on Fridays! I wanted to pop it in myself as I wanted to have a word with them there. The UK Money Bloggers Reverse Advent campaign has gone so well, that we are now discussing ideas on how we can continue to help going into 2018.
One of the things that the foodbank themselves suggested was to give a bag with a recipe and all the ingredients for that recipe in it. Bearing in mind that foodbanks need ambient food stuffs, I had a look at the recipes and the one for Sardine Fishcakes would work. The ingredients for ambient food would be a tin of sardines, a packet of instant mash and some dried onions. They are fried in oil, but if the client has none, they can be baked in the oven.
Really great advice Lesley and good idea about the recipe bags, could I add a suggestion put a clear label on the bag as to what cooking means are needed for it ie Kettle needed, Grill needed, Oven needed, No gas or electric cooking required.Might make it easier to categorise them at the FB according to what people have available. There just seems in my area just so more requests for donations local and face to face within the organisations I attend than ever before> People are really hurting and also people are just about gived out literally as never before.
I’m afraid we’ve lost Sheila now. So quick, didn’t have time to get used to it before it was all over
My pleasure, I’m glad to be in a position to do it
Thanks so much for your donation Lesley – they will be gratefully received when we start giving out ‘extra’ items to our clients in December.
We have recently been donating to our local food bank, toiletries, cleaning products, small childrens gifts for Christmas and other items, we are so shocked at the number of people who need this wonderful service and we are so pleased to help. We have a bread maker that we only used once and is it a cheap way to make bread, so they will have that too along with some flour, and all the other ingredients to start them off. These are sad times.So sorry to hear that your good friend is so poorly, it’s a horrible, horrible thing.
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