Anyone here used a Foodbank ?

[Cormac135]

Thankfully not here, i can usually just about manage from payday to payday, have any of you had to use a food bank ?

 

[Alistair]

Not directly. My niece goes to one and gets a lot of food she won't eat (too healthy for her) I'll usually take it home. Canned fruits and veggies, rice and pasta.

 

[NotHardUp1]

No. I support them. But, when we were children, Mother used food stamps, commodities, food from churches, and food banks, as well as free lunch programs. Much of my childhood was spent on the dole.

I've never complained since about paying my taxes. My family has and does take more than it pays in.

 

[Rickrock]

No, I haven't. I would consider doing that if I needed to, but haven't so far and don't expect, and hope, that I never will. On rare occasions I have donated to food banks, sometimes money instead of food.

 

[medic1]

We run a small food-bank at the practice one evening per week, we all take our turn at manning the barricades.

 

[peeonme]

I went to one once back in 2008 after the economy took a dump and I was unemployed for a year. I had a Lincoln Towncar that was 13 years old and got remarks from the guys working at the food bank.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Well, that is an old trope isn't it?

There were certainly people driving new premium cars who also came to the food bank, as they do in every place, and the age of yours probably wasn't like you were driving a clunker. From your posts, I'd wager your 13-year-old car still looked pristine, so they probably did have reason for pause to wonder why you could afford a gas guzzling luxury car but not bread.

And there are plenty of people who game the system, so workers build up resentment, since the gamers aren't fooling anyone. In fairness to them, the Lincoln was designed to impress as prestige, and it succeeds, even when older, if not beaten up.

But, in the end, they gave away food, so they did do something to help the needy.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Went to the Missionaries of Charity's Madrid soup kitchen more than once. Then there were the clothes that they collected for the homeless and Padre Endrique's homeless shelter where we also slept.

 

[gsdx]

I did a few times back in the mid-80s, but I've bought and donated enough food to replace it many times over. (I specialise in buying food for children. Children should never, ever go to bed hungry.)

 

[Peloso]

I'm on food stamps. I also get SSI disability.

Both can be maddening bureaucracies to navigate, but I'd be homeless without them, so I'm very grateful.

 

[peeonme]

Well, that is an old trope isn't it?

There were certainly people driving new premium cars who also came to the food bank, as they do in every place, and the age of yours probably wasn't like you were driving a clunker. From your posts, I'd wager your 13-year-old car still looked pristine, so they probably did have reason for pause to wonder why you could afford a gas guzzling luxury car but not bread.

And there are plenty of people who game the system, so workers build up resentment, since the gamers aren't fooling anyone. In fairness to them, the Lincoln was designed to impress as prestige, and it succeeds, even when older, if not beaten up.

But, in the end, they gave away food, so they did do something to help the needy.

It still looked good.

 

[cityboy-stl]

I donate $ to one.

 

[rareboy]

We support one, but fortunately, in my life, I have never gone hungry, even when I had no money at all as a student.