This story makes you really wonder how badly the "hungry" really want food.

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

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Wha'cha got against beans, Mo?

Beans.... Beans are musical fruit. The more you eat, the more you toot, The more you toot, the better you feel, so let's all have beans for every meal!

 

[DaSleeper]

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Wha'cha got against beans, Mo?

Beans.... Beans are musical fruit. The more you eat, the more you toot, The more you toot, the better you feel, so let's all have beans for every meal!

Don't you know that flatulence gas is a major cause of global warming?

 

[Cannuck]

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... Too often the cash gets pilfered

Do you have actual evidence of this and if so, did you phone the police?

 

[lone wolf]

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Don't you know that flatulence gas is a major cause of global warming?

So is breathing....

 

[JLM]

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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.

I hear you 100% D.M. I think the "threshold" for "needy" now is a hell of a lot higher than it was 50 years ago. I donate to food banks for two reasons................the children and the disabled.

Stop donating canned goods to food drives: Your corned mutton castoffs are only making things worse | National Post


Back in the day if we were hungry we ate the stuff and didn't question it. I know from years of eating Prem.

Looks like there's at least two people on here who like Prem. Have to admit back in the day it was considered to be a notch better than Spam.

 

[Mowich]

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O.K. Now we are on the "same page".




I hear you. I'm old fashioned and if I'm going to donate I like to see the kids get wholesome, nutritious food and there's not a lot of that in the super markets any more or at least it's not displayed where it will likely be sold. So I have occasionally been known to donate a bag of oat meal or whole wheat flour, rather than sh*t like frosted flakes or other sh*t that is just laced with sugar or salt or both.

Good for you, JLM.

Wha'cha got against beans, Mo?

Beans.... Beans are musical fruit. The more you eat, the more you toot, The more you toot, the better you feel, so let's all have beans for every meal!

My bad, wolf............should have gone back and edited the post to read 'string beans or french beans' as brown beans are a good source of protein. :smile:

Beans are supposed to be nutritious.................lots of protein!

Yes, yes............I just admitted to lone wolf that I should have edited my post.

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.

Where did you get the idea that people are turning up their noses at anything - it sure wasn't from the article. The point of the article was that canned foods are donated in such huge amounts from food drives and supermarkets alike that they take up valuable shelf space, need to be stored in heated areas and other than seafood or meat have little in the way of nutrition.

I also take issue with your assumption that everyone using food banks are aspiring to 'live the same lifestyles....' and are abusing the system. Sure there are those who do but there are also families - many of them single parents - who are good and decent people down on their luck for whatever reason and struggling to put food in their kids bellies.

FYI, the article never mentioned corned beef or Prem - both of which are gladly accepted at our food bank. The author was referring to items such as those pictured above.
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Just watched Blazing Saddles for the umpteenth time last week - that campfire scene is absolutely hilarious.

 

[damngrumpy]

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Donating food makes the giver feel good giving money is by far a better choice
it allows the organizations room for discounts and the money goes further.
My dadwas a soldier in WWII mutton was not allowed in our house.
I remember prem and other stuff wouldn't touch it myself

 

[JLM]

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Donating food makes the giver feel good giving money is by far a better choice
it allows the organizations room for discounts and the money goes further.
My dadwas a soldier in WWII mutton was not allowed in our house.
I remember prem and other stuff wouldn't touch it myself

You are correct in that money is the most negotiable, but I hate to see generous people discouraged who don't happen to have cash, some donate time, some donate produce or preservatives & I think they should all be valued equally. It's the thought that counts, the amount is secondary. I value a child's donation of pennies from their piggy bank more than I would $1000 from Bill Gates or Donald Trump.

 

[tay]

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"This story makes you really wonder how badly the "hungry" really want food."

It makes me wonder if you bothered to read the article.

Having worked at our local Food Bank, I am in complete agreement with the issues raised by the author. I hope it helps change attitudes towards donating certain types of food or better yet to forgo those canned goods and donate money.

I have often wondered about cash donations being better and I am going cash vs stuff next week although I can see where people may be a little leery in handing cash over and wondering where it is going....

 

[Kathie Bondar]

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Stop donating canned goods to food drives: Your corned mutton castoffs are only making things worse | National Post


Back in the day if we were hungry we ate the stuff and didn't question it. I know from years of eating Prem.

I no longer donate to food drives, since I realized my colleague at the office, with much higher salary then mine, regularly collects from the food bank. There are way too many manipulators and screening is lax. My suggestion is, try to work for your money, then buy yourself the food you like

 

[Curious Cdn]

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I no longer donate to food drives, since I realized my colleague at the office, with much higher salary then mine, regularly collects from the food bank. There are way too many manipulators and screening is lax. My suggestion is, try to work for your money, then buy yourself the food you like

Yeah! Ya you hear that, JLM!

Back to work with you! Try to make your quota, for once, ya chisseler!

 

[JLM]

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Yeah! Ya you hear that, JLM!

Back to work with you! Try to make your quota, for once, ya chisseler!

It takes all kinds of people to make a world. I know a millionaire who was too f**king cheap to buy his bro. in law a card (or gift) for his 70th birthday. It's not all to do with wealth or lack of it but in a lot of cases a mental sickness. Stealing often has nothing to do with need!

 

[tay]

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My suggestion is, try to work for your money, then buy yourself the food you like

 

[JLM]

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There's another angle.

 

[davesmom]

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I we all had Jesus' power to perform miracles we would not only fix hunger but all the other terrible things in the world!
Unfortunately, while Jesus could feed multitudes with a couple of fish and a loaf of bread, we can't make a dollar even buy a dollar's worth let alone $2 worth!

 

[Danbones]

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you can feed a man a fish for a day or teach him how to fish and feed him for ever...
oh wait...
the pacific was killed by fukushima radiation so a few illeat people could afford steak
but there's no fish there now for the peasants

c'est damage
let them eat cake

i volunteer at the local food bank (as security)
if the local mental health industry had a clue we wouldn't have chronic clients
but no...
their fancy steak and pie pay checks aren't connected to getting the job done:
in fact, their paychecks are tied most securely to NOT solving problems.
that's government job security right there

Don't you know that flatulence gas is a major cause of global warming?

eat a methane burner
lol
medium rare would be about right