bruno22rf Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 Received a food parcel (in error - has been cancelled and returned) but the contents were a little, er, surprising.To sustain one person for one week the supplied goods were - 1 Loaf stale bread/1 pack Pasta/ 1 Pack of (we assume) Rice that had spilt out in the box/1 Tin Chicken meatballs /1 Tin (tiny) Tuna /1 Tin Mandarin Segments /2 Tins Baked Beans / 3 Tins Carrot and Coriander Soup/ 5 pots of awful smelling Soap/ Bag of Porridge/1 ltr of UHT Milk/1 Bag Potatoes and 6 Apples.Ooops - forgot the Bog Roll. Now I'm beginning to think that Supermarkets are using this scheme as a way of off loading all the carp that they cannot sell and wondering how, say an OAP, is going to make a meal from this list? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbie to this Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 17 minutes ago, bruno22rf said: forgot the Bog Roll. At least they give them something to barter with to get some actual edible food. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-G Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 Probably much better than war rations. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 Are you sure it was a mistake? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruno22rf Posted April 23, 2020 Author Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 One more remark like that, TIGHTCHOKE, and you'll be getting an unexpected delivery of Carrot and Coriander Soup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbob Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 We are giving students in halls 3 day survival packs and to be honest there not much better but they just cant get the numbers of good food to make 800 drop offs and each one gets one loo roll catering freed up 15 bags of 25 kilo potatoes from the cold store that where going out of date when we opened them they where soft or started growing they put a notice help yourself and word got round the campus and they arrived like a army of ants with carrier bags and they have a choice there not self isolating its the ones on lockdown i really feel sorry for Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B725 Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 My niece has received a food parcel from the supermarket to keep them going until their online shopping arrives,if they can send food parcels why can't they send the food ordered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaymo Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 1 hour ago, bruno22rf said: One more remark like that, TIGHTCHOKE, and you'll be getting an unexpected delivery of Carrot and Coriander Soup. Can you send it this way- it’s one of my favs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 2 hours ago, bruno22rf said: One more remark like that, TIGHTCHOKE, and you'll be getting an unexpected delivery of Carrot and Coriander Soup. Could you make sure it is still warm when it arrives please? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centrepin Posted April 24, 2020 Report Share Posted April 24, 2020 I received a food parcel this morning, to be honest for one person for one week it's not bad. (Only theres two of us). Fresh and tinned fruit, tins of soup, peas and beans, pasta, rice, small pack of bourbons, small tin of spam, tuna, fresh bread, huge bag of tatties (at least a months worth for us) carrots, small amount of coffee and tea, loo rolls, some kind of cook in sauce, dove soap. The only thing I'll not use is a Lynx shower gel hair wash as I've no hair on my head 😅 and usually use just soap anyway. To be fair, whoever put it together did a good job. I've asked for no more to be delivered as supermarket delivery slots have now been made available to us as my wife is "highly vunerable" and I'm vunerable but able to get out. I'm not normally one to praise any government but in this case they have done well. I just hope the rest goes to people who really can't get out or have no support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigbob Posted April 24, 2020 Report Share Posted April 24, 2020 Catering dropped of loads of boxes of out of date crisps all gone in 4 hours by students still on campus , i really feel sorry for them now 2 chinese said they finish up next month and a flight home is risen from £400 to £3000 for them and they will be stuck here even after this finishes as they cant afford to go home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Heron Posted April 24, 2020 Report Share Posted April 24, 2020 Next door emailed to ask did my wife and myself know of anyone who needed a food parcel as one had been delivered to their home we did not and couldn't think of anyone who would need one but there was no address on the parcel and no contact number to speak to anyone so some poor person is with out and we have no idea who. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruno22rf Posted May 14, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2020 Quick update on this situation - despite cancelling the parcels, both with my local council and on the Government website, they have been coming every week. This Tuesday I actually caught the driver as he tried to drop the food off at my door and told him of the situation - he refused to take the box back as he would have to drive back to the distribution centre and he was finishing for the day! Rang the council again and suggested that I might report them for Fly Tipping and, Hey Presto, it seems to have worked as I've had a TXT this morning confirming that I will no longer receive said provisions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centrepin Posted May 14, 2020 Report Share Posted May 14, 2020 I've had the same, I cancelled as I can now get supermarket deliveries but they said it can take 2 to 3 weeks for it to go through the system. In the meantime I've had 2 deliveries. The first 1 split between my daughter and her neighbour, a single mum, hairdresser, who is self employed. It was quite embarrassing as she burst into tears. The second I split again between my daughter, her neighbour and my mum in laws neighbour who's in his 90s and not had a visitor since April, and walks to the local shop every day for essentials and a paper. The tins I gave him of Heinz soup he said will do him a month. So I can honestly say mine has not been wasted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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