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Just back from my second visit to the £5 Food Pantry. You remember how it goes..........do you want Brie or Mozzarella, milk or eggs, Nandos or KFC chicken etc.
I had KFC, 6 eggs, Brie, 2 bags of grated cheese, tin of sardines, vegan burgers, turkey sliced meat,  a malted loaf, bagels, bread rolls, doughnuts, cookies, madeira cake, crisps, 2 cans of tango, plums, tangerines, vine tomatoes, avocados. I turned down celery & cucumbers. Well pleased with that lot for £5.

This sounds very much like a food bank? Is it ran by a charity?Are you not depriving people of food who are desperate to feed their families? Or have I got the wrong end of the stick here? 
I'm not havig a go at you, just interested, as there is nowt like that round here.