#63

Oh shit, we didn’t do it.

WE STILL CAN THOUGH!

@colon_closed_bracket make a list of around 10 items a foodbank would need most (given your expertise) and we’ll get this baby moving!

#64

Do you ever end up taking over building wise? I only ask because I was helping my 2 year old nephew try and build a mini train set and I ended up putting half of it together myself.

#65

People could just swap avatars, like in Face Off.

#66

that’s just an idea for a thread

#67

remember that day where everyone who posted had to start a thread? that was a good idea

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#68

It varies from time to time but you could go with:

1l Carton of fresh fruit juice
750g box of cereal
1l bottle of UHT milk
Tin of rice pudding
Box of 80 teabags
Tin of new potatoes
1kg bag rice
Tin of canned fruit
standard can of deodorant
Standard box of Tampax

We also collect tinned meat / tinned fish and usually run low on both, but I’m not sure how non meat eaters would feel about buying these?

#69

Awesome! Will get this kicked off tomorrow morning.

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#70

Additional: obviously we collect a lot more than these things but (a) provision of fresh food / bread etc varies from place to place and (b) most foodbanks are swimming in the obvious items like pasta and beans.

#71

What was the game element? Who can get them the quickest or something?

#72

Just the price variation, I reckon

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#73

And any anecdotes from the shopping experience

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#74

I’ve found my local food bank and will make a donation as soon as I can get to it when it’s open.

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#75

Cheers. If you can’t make it down to a foodbank during opening hours then loads of supermarkets have permanent collection points too.

#76

I was going to ask - my Tesco has one and bar the odd can I haven’t paid much attention, do they generally go straight to the food banks?

#77

we should do that tomorrow

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#78

Also, is there any point putting in the odd ‘luxury’ item - like nice crisps/choc biscuits or is it more a question of quantity over quality?

#79

It should specify on the board at the front. I think most go to the local Foodbank- at ours, we have a volunteer who goes to every week and collects all the donations and takes them down to the Foodbank.

I think some supermarkets donate to Fareshare, which is a slightly different but equally worthy cause (they tend to distribute surplus supermarket food to places like soup kitchens, day centres for vulnerable people etc).

EDIT: and I’d say yes in normal circumstances, but we usually get loads of chocolates, sweets and so on around Christmas, and they have a shorter shelf life than other items.

#80

And in terms of general donations e.g. cereal, milk etc: I tend to buy around the “supermarket own brand” level unless there’s a value product that I know is decent enough to cook with (e.g. chopped tomatoes). We’ll happily accept luxury or value versions though, we tend to get a pretty wide mix of donations so it all works out okay.

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#81

Casual Fridays- come in wearing jeans

#82

Bring Your Spouse to DiS Day - give your SO your login details and tell them to do what they want. Come back the day after to assess the damage done

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