Re: This story makes you really wonder how badly the "hungry" really want food.
I am too cynical about how charities spend the cash donations they receive to ever give cash if there is an alternative. Too often the cash gets pilfered or spent irresponsibly. I have heard that in our local food bank, even the best foods get pilfered by the staff. Face it, by the time the average family buys enough for themselves there is little cash left over to give away.
There are plenty of good, nutritious canned foods to donate. Various soups and stews, canned tomatoes, beans, macaroni, canned salmon, canned ham, all kinds of canned fruits.
There are mixes for muffins that only need water added and baking.
I don't think people are very needy if they turn up their noses at things like corned beef and spam. Those things can be worked into recipes with other ingredients to make delicious meals.
As long as people can afford beer, lottery tickets, cell phones and 'pay to view' movies, they aren't needy enough to be using food banks.
Charities are supposed to be for needy people. If people who are needy expect to live the same lifestyles as those who donate to them, then they aren't really needy.