{"id":8,"date":"2026-10-11T03:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T03:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-kindora\/what-to-put-in-a-food-bank-donation\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T03:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T03:47:18","slug":"what-to-put-in-a-food-bank-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-kindora\/what-to-put-in-a-food-bank-donation\/","title":{"rendered":"What to put in a food bank donation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Food banks give out what people bring in, so the most useful donations are foods that keep for months and can be made into a meal with little equipment. Many people who use a food bank have only a kettle or a microwave, or cannot afford to run an oven for long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A good shopping list<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Tins:<\/strong> soup, beans, tomatoes, vegetables, fish, meat and fruit. Ring-pull tins help people without a tin opener.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Dry food:<\/strong> pasta, rice, noodles, oats, cereal and lentils.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Jars and sauces:<\/strong> pasta sauce, peanut butter, jam and honey.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Long-life drinks:<\/strong> UHT milk, fruit juice, tea and instant coffee.<\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Not food, but often needed:<\/strong> toothpaste, soap, shampoo, sanitary products, nappies and baby wipes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What most food banks cannot take<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For food safety, food banks generally cannot accept home-cooked food, opened packets, anything past its use-by date or food that needs a fridge. Rules differ from place to place, so check with your local food bank before a large collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ask what is running low<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stock goes up and down. Many food banks publish a short list of what they need this week; giving from that list helps more than buying the same items as everyone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-life food that is easy to cook helps most. Here is a simple shopping list, and what food banks usually cannot take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-kindora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-kindora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-kindora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-kindora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-kindora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-kindora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-kindora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-kindora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/block.ltheme.com\/lt-kindora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}