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Then just get the supermarkets to supply the hampers. When you buy hampers from them they do not charge for picking and delivery. £30 is a fair amount for a small family, if spent wisely.

 

Not a bad shout but then I refer you again to my second paragraph.

 

quelle surprise ...

"Chartwells, part of Compass Group, were given the contract to supply emergency packages to families who would usually rely on free school meals as children were forced to learn from home.

The group’s chairman, Paul Walsh, was a former member of David Cameron’s business advisory group and is also a Conservative Party donor."

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/p...ask-is-nothing-spared-from-their-greed/12/01/

 

£30 would get you this from Morrisons, it includes delivery. - It states, 'five meals to feed a family of 4'...if you buy under subscription it's only £28.50...

Your box will include the items listed below, or comparable products of the same value:
Morrisons Market Street British Minced Beef 12% Fat 500g
Morrisons The Best Thick Pork Sausages 400g x 2
Pilgrims Choice Mature Cheddar 350g
Morrisons Puff Pastry 375g
Morrisons Trimmed Leeks 500g
Morrisons Chestnut Mushrooms 250g
Loose Garlic
Morrisons Baby Plum Tomatoes 250g
Morrisons Maris Piper Potatoes 2.5kg
Morrisons Brown Onions 1kg
Morrisons Wonky Carrots 1kg
Morrisons Salad Peppers
Morrisons Red Kidney Beans 390g
Morrisons Basil 16g
Morrisons Parsley 11g
Morrisons Thyme 16g
Morrisons Courgettes 3 pack 240g
Morrisons Spaghetti 500gk
Morrisons Easy Cook Long Grain Rice 500g
Morrisons Butter Beans In Water 400g
Morrisons Chopped Tomatoes 400g
Morrisons Vegetable Stock Cubes 12's 120g
Eat Fresh Chilli Powder 5g
Morrisons Canned Reduced Fat Coconut Milk 400ml
Morrisons Medium Curry Powder 90g
Morrisons Bunched Coriander 100g

 

There are vouchers available, however listening to a phone in this morning teachers were explaining many parents preferred the hampers due to the perceived shame of handing them in at the supermarket.

The school meal providers are also being tasked with sorting the hampers and both the wholesalers and them are inflating the prices per item to maximise their margin, one example was £1.09 for a tin of Heinz beans.

****ing shameful.

 

Just listen to the fat **** will ya

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Maybe a voucher but in form of a code that can be entered online, to select your own hamper. For those that don't have access to the internet a contact number they can ring to place their order. Surely a supermarket would jump at the idea of marketing the fact that they are supplying the kids meals.

 

You missed a few crucial words here (curtesy of the daily BBC bulletin smallprint)

 

Indeed, but remarkably spending them on line isn’t a thing. I also don’t think they’re being made available in every area, from what I gleaned from half listening to the phone in there was a lot of regional variation, as to what was being made available.

 

I see what you mean about the regional variation, they just showed it on the news. Where one hamper looked substantial and contained plenty of fresh fruit and other items, versus the few apples and the rest of the bolloxs in the other one.

 

Didn't miss anything ... straight from the Government's website ... makes you wonder why they didn't use your wording ... perhaps they think something far fetched like Covid actually caused the deaths or was a significant factor in accelerating them ...

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths

 

I'd agree ... one tweak "not valid for items containing tobacco or alcohol" ... might not stop some form of trading between individual scrotes but would make it more difficult ...

 

I've lived on the bread line when i was young, and even when you have money as an adult, pass lessons teach you the value of what you have. So when I say I could budget £30 for a week for a small family, I really could. I could run them parcels better than the fooking idiots that sent them out. Makes me so angry, because there is absolutely no need for it.

Edit; I should have said, I also know how vouchers can be abused. I also know parents embarrassment that is attached to them.

 

They’re already not valid for those items.

 

Apart from in Mansfield where the local MP is worried they’re being sold for crack.

 

You'd think technology is not beyond the remit of being able to cash in an online voucher for a food parcel. Like you say, the supermarkets are already pretty much geared up for this with online delivery. It's not a huge leap to add a voucher code and limit it to food produce and exclude alcohol and tobacco.

Like you, I've lived on the bread line. So I know what it's like to make pennies stretch to make meals. I used to fish to supplement my larder but it's not difficult to make potatoes, pasta, rice, veg, beans, tomatoes, greens and a few tins of tuna, mackerel etc stretch make some decent meals.

 

I know a good place for roll mops. Very nutritious too.

 

I remember milk tokens back in the day when my eldest was a baby. Felt like a leper using them, so I get why parents would prefer a hamper.

Imagine being that much of a **** that you’d see this measure, introduced solely to help with child poverty as an opportunity to profiteer? That’s some special kind of arsehole.

 

They (supermarkets) are also set up for vulnerable people, so you could put children in with that category, and some supermarkets offer a telephone number to pass your order of what they call 'essentials.'

 

I think who's ever running this shambles, needs a knock at their front door and given a friendly warning how people feel about this sort of shhite.