Help stop UK food poverty

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Food waste is a major issue. We throw away 7.2 million tonnes of food and drink from our homes every year in the UK, the majority of which could have been eaten. Today people across the UK will struggle to feed themselves and their families. Redundancy, illness, benefit delay, debt and paying for the additional costs of heating during winter are just some of the reasons why people go hungry. Freegive free food group connects people who are giving and getting food items for free in their own towns. It's completely free to join. Please note all food item posted must include expire date.

Please help stop the growing crisis of food poverty in UK. Together we can make a difference.

Free food group is active in UK. Please find a group near you at http://www.freegive.co.uk/freefood.htm

How free food group works:

You have a tinned meat / fish or rice or milk or tea bags or tinned tomatoes or coffee or tinned vegetables or fruit juice or packet of pasta you were going to throw out.

• You join your local Freegive free food group.
• You post an offer on your local Freegive free food group.
• People respond to you if they are interested.
• You pick a recipient and arrange for them to collect the food item.
• They take the food item away.
• You let your local Freegive free food group know that the food item is no longer available by posting an item TAKEN message to the group.

If you need a food item you can request one on your local Freegive free food group in the same way by posting food WANTED message to the group and if someone has what you're looking for they will contact you to offer it.

Please help feed local people in crisis. The Free Food Group aim is that no child or adult goes to bed hungry in UK

Find out more at http://www.freegive.co.uk
 
The exact same people who regulary throw food away are exactly the sort of people who couldn't even be bothered with giving it away.

Secondly, the people who need food are unlikely to live near you or have transport available to go and pick up your EOL food.

Perhaps it's better to organise a local distribution centre and give away boxes of food, like they do in America. In that scenario, people buy extra food as part of their normal shopping and then donate it to their local group.


Dogs make great self emptying refuse bins, it's amazing what they can tolerate.
Humans less so, you can die from a bad EOL tin of meat.
 
danielanthony said:
There is no absolute poverty in the UK.
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I watched a bloke going through the bins outside Lidl the other day, he found half a bread roll and ate it. That looks pretty much like absolute poverty to me?

He also had my banana which was the only thing I had in the car at the time, because I reckon I'm only a few missed mortgage payments away from being in the same situation. I've never been hungry in my life but I can imagine it is pretty horrible.
 
bitslice said:
I watched a bloke going through the bins outside Lidl the other day, he found half a bread roll and ate it. That looks pretty much like absolute poverty to me?
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No silly, you're doing it wrong. He clearly made the prerequisite life decisions to end up on the street eating discarded foodstuffs.

Haven't you learnt anything in your time here? Personally I bask in the glory of making the right decisions in life and vote Conservative accordingly. These people need to be taught a lesson after all.

Who said they could eat the bread out of bins for heavens sake. :mad:

Of all the poposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well housed, well homed, and well fed.
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^ What a leftie ******.
 
amy32uk said:
Food waste is a major issue. We throw away 7.2 million tonnes of food and drink from our homes every year in the UK, the majority of which could have been eaten.
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You have a tinned meat / fish or rice or milk or tea bags or tinned tomatoes or coffee or tinned vegetables or fruit juice or packet of pasta you were going to throw out.
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not being funny but I really doubt that tinned products or other items which keep for a long time actually make up much of a % of things being thrown out

the scheme looks like its reliant on people making a conscious effort to purchase a donation in food rather than cash or donate something which they had previously intended to consume and so will then later replace... and not necessarily stuff they'd have otherwise thrown out per say

to then try to match inexpensive food items to people seems to be horribly inefficient - would surely be better for them to raise funds and arrange to purchase the required food in bulk, at a discount rather than donors paying full whack for food + the assorted faff of collecting/organising lots of irregular small food donations
 
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Every time I buy a tin of Baked Beans I am going to buy an extra just to throw out and think of you.
 
Kudos to OP for trying to help but I do think this scheme is too impractical to work.

And am I the only one who finds it a but distasteful that some people in this thread who judging by the expensive gear in their sigs are presumably fairly rich can display such ignorance about the extent of poverty in this country? Just because you're doing alright doesn't mean everyone else is. There's plenty of people out there that have to choose between heating and food because they can't afford both.
 
If you're on any Benefits then you just need to realise you can't eat that £60 a Month contract Super-Smart-Phone-Turbo GTX1000 Mk.III you just signed up for that you don't really need. Simplez.
 
Admirable idea, but as unfortunate as it sounds, it's too much hassle for people to bother with. Seeing that a large amount of families are one missed salary away from bankruptcy themselves, it's difficult to have compassion.

Unfortunately this is one way Capitalism shaped us.
 
kissenger said:
Kudos to OP for trying to help but I do think this scheme is too impractical to work.

And am I the only one who finds it a but distasteful that some people in this thread who judging by the expensive gear in their sigs are presumably fairly rich can display such ignorance about the extent of poverty in this country? Just because you're doing alright doesn't mean everyone else is. There's plenty of people out there that have to choose between heating and food because they can't afford both.
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There was only one post displaying ignorance so how can it be "some people"?
 
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