Back in September, I wrote a post about wanting to do a Christmas food bank donation. I made a Crowd Funder page and asked my readers if they could spare any money at all, even a £1, to help towards that donation.
I’ll be honest, I was very apprehensive about posting that. Asking you, my lovely readers, to donate money for something that you wouldn’t ever feel the benefit of. You don’t know where I live. You don’t know who uses my local food bank, nor do I, but I wanted to make a difference. I wanted to feel like I was contributing to something local to me. To give back, so to speak.
But, you are amazing. In total, you donated £122 to the food bank donation appeal. £122! That is absolutely fantastic.
After fees, that left me with £105.06 to spend. Which will make a huge difference to the people who need it the most. I have been sat writing a shopping list, looking on Sainsburys website as they appear to do the largest basics range. It means that I can get the most food to donate. So, here is the list of things I have come up with:
- 10 tins of chopped tomatoes
- 5 cartons of orange juice
- 10 tins of baked beans
- 10 tins of red kidney beans
- 5 tins of tuna chunks
- 10 tins of sweetcorn
- 10 tins of plum tomatoes
- 5 cartons of apple juice
- 2 packets of milk chocolate digestives
- 5 packs of chicken flavoured instant noodles
- 10 packets of dried pasta
- 10 packets of spaghetti
- 10 tins of peach slices in syrup
- 10 tins of spaghetti
- 10 packets of white rice
- 5 tins of rice pudding
- 5 jars of peanut butter
- 5 jars of strawberry jam
- 10 tins of sliced carrots
- 5 tins of custard
- 5 tins of mushy peas
- 5 bags of salted peanuts
- 5 packets of cookies
- 10 tins of potatoes
- 5 bottles of tomato ketchup
- 5 boxes of wheatabix
- 5 packets of jaffa cakes
- 5 packets of chocolate digestive bars
- 5 boxes of cornflakes
- 20 packets of sage and onion stuffing
- 2 jars of hot chocolate
- 20 packets of gravy granules
- 5 toothbrushes
- 5 tubes of toothpaste
- 5 boxes of vegetable stock cubes
- 5 tins of chilli con carne
- 5 tins of chicken curry
- 5 tins of Irish stew
- 10 cartons UHT milk
This long list of products comes to £121.35, so I shall make up the rest of the money. Along with the items I have purchased each week since I posted about doing a food bank donation, this will be a huge donation to my local food bank. HUGE. I will go and buy all of the food on Thursday evening, whilst Mr FC looks after the Frugal Baby. I shall take some pictures of all the items I purchase to show you just how far it goes. Plus, to prove the money is going where I say it is!
Above, you can see that I have got a mix of the basics and then some treats in there too. Some of the items I have been buying as I have done my weekly shop are more treats too; there’s a couple of chocolate oranges in there, for example. It is Christmas, after all!
Thank you so much if you donated. I cannot wait to go and get the food and take it to my local food bank. I am planning on dropping everything off on Friday. So, by the end of this week, you and I will be helping people in need.
Make sure you let Sainsbury’s know what you are doing as they might be interested in also helping. Just talk to the manager about your project. They also might help because of good publicity.
🙂 Have fun shopping and delivering!