TSSeasider
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This morning we had a very wide selection of food to share from Tesco finest ribs in ginger and soy sauce to cucumbers and lettuce and pineapples - lots of pineapples - and 50 punnets of raspberries and kimchi and keffir; bread, yoghurt and so on. All in all we are looking at about 100kgs of food - as I put it out we had maybe 40 to 50 people turn up, take what they needed with a smile on their faces. I was also able to give a selection boxes to people with kids (which had been donated by a local private sector business) - I asked who had kids and how many - I didn't ask for proof, I simply believed them.
As I sit her now, we've got about a couple of trays of lettuce left - that's a good thing.
People who wanted it could get something, maybe not everything they wanted, but there was plenty to go around; it's saved them money or given them a treat they wouldn't have bought for themselves. Can I honestly say that everyone was poor? - No. Are they destitute? Probably not. Were they grateful? Yes absolutely.
We are about stopping food going to landfill so today has been a good day.
We are living in a time when hyperbole is the order of the day. Is starvation widespread - no. Are lots of people struggling - yes. Should we help when we can - of course.
Edited to add: all the food has now gone
As I sit her now, we've got about a couple of trays of lettuce left - that's a good thing.
People who wanted it could get something, maybe not everything they wanted, but there was plenty to go around; it's saved them money or given them a treat they wouldn't have bought for themselves. Can I honestly say that everyone was poor? - No. Are they destitute? Probably not. Were they grateful? Yes absolutely.
We are about stopping food going to landfill so today has been a good day.
We are living in a time when hyperbole is the order of the day. Is starvation widespread - no. Are lots of people struggling - yes. Should we help when we can - of course.
Edited to add: all the food has now gone
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