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What’s in a food parcel?
Our foodbank provides three days of nutritionally balanced, non-perishable food.
The Trussell Trust has worked with nutritionists to ensure food parcels contains sufficient nutrition for at least three days worth of healthy, balanced meals for individuals and families.
A typical food parcel includes:
- Cereals
- Soup
- Pasta
- Rice
- Pasta sauce
- Beans
- Tinned meat
- Tinned vegetables
- Tinned fruit
- Tinned fish
- Tinned or packet potatoes
- Tea or coffee
- Dilute/juice
- UHT milk
- Gravy granules
- Rice pudding or custard
- Biscuits
- Toiletries (if needed)
Allergens and Dietary Requirements
Our food bank can usually adapt your food parcel to meet your allergy and dietary needs, for example; gluten-free, halal or vegetarian. Please let the referral agency know about any special requirements you may have.