DO food banks only encourage a dependency culture, but you’re compelled to support them by peer pressure? Daily Mail reader Donna Sheridan explains how to donate grudgingly.
Never donate anything nice
Give them salmon or Green & Black’s chocolate and you’re essentially congratulating them for choosing their scrounging parasite lifestyle. Stick to instructive foodstuffs such as dried lentils, Smash and bottled water (not sparkling).
Make them work for it
Sliced loaves are for busy people, not the idle. Flour and a 30p packet of yeast means they’ve got all they need to labour for hours baking their own loaves, teaching them what work is and prepare them for the job market.
Write to your MP
Not to state your outrage at the economic conditions that force people to use food banks, but to make them harder to access. Propose a Food Bank Agreement, whereby layabout families get free rice pudding on condition of being sterilised there and then.
Donate food that disgusts you
These products will teach them a lesson: tinned turkey, super-cheap hot dogs in a jar, or cod roe that resembles something out of a cyst. It’s a shame Sainsbury’s doesn’t do pickled rats’ heads.
It’s not just food
Food banks also need things like laundry fluid and toilet paper. Don’t donate these, and definitely not tampons. It’s too much like feminism.
Remember Christmas is on the way
So include some treats! I’ve donated a tin of all-day breakfast, which will make a sumptuous Christmas dinner for a poor family. Give the kiddies something they don’t have like aspirations or a sense of responsibility, which I’ve represented with a Top Gear annual.
