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I actually work at a Foodbank and I can tell you if people are having issues getting stuff from a Foodbank it ain't because there low on stock, that's for sure.
Like seriously last Tuesday we had issues simply putting away all of the "donations" (in air quotes because most of our supply comes from Tesco's and friends, not from like dudues leaving donations or anything.) so if foodbanks are utterly incapable of doing much it ain't because we got a lack of supply.
Actually thinking about this we usually don't give out much food per donation, like, for a family of four for instance we probably make up like 4 boxes or something like that, which is basically fuck all to be honest especially for a family that size, like I guess if you wanted to be generous it would be enough for 1000 calories per day per person, which again is on the generous side of things, certainly nowhere near the recommended caloric intake for men and women.
TL:Dr, foodbanks are probably holding back on the donations they give out even when you do get vouchers, so yeah, fuuunnnnn.
My local foodbank barely even gives food, it's mostly drinks. A typical package would be a box of teabags, a jar of coffee, a large bottle of milk, a bag of sugar, and then just a very small amount of food, usually a tiny bag of pasta, a mini loaf of bread, a packet of cookies and a bag of doritos. That's it. No protein, no fruit, no veg, and it takes so long to access because you have to get a referral, which means you need someone like the GP or citizens advice to refer you and it takes ages getting them to do that, then you have to wait for an appointment at the food bank, and they have often even been closed on days they're meant to be open. So all in all it takes 2-3 weeks to actually get to use the food bank, and those cookies, doritos, bread and pasta are somehow meant to last that long. They don't even last a day. I actually developed nutritional deficiencies and fainted 4 times after living like this for months. That's why I ask for help getting food here on lemmy, it's impossible to survive on the food bank. They actually told me they're supposed to give three days worth of food at a time. I don't even consider this close to three days worth, and I think it's ridiculous anyway only giving people three days worth when it takes weeks to get back there again. Not to mention it's really difficult not being able to choose my own food as my cancer treatment has caused me to develop food intolerances, the food the food bank gives makes me ill but when you're starving you eat it anyway.
Jesus, I mean to be honest I live in the south east (aka the part of the UK that effectively leeched of the rest of britbong land when we began to enter the end stage of capitalism) and even down here I wouldn't exactly describe the situation as great, sure you do get actual protein in your food parcels here but it's only slightly better to be honest, and your certainly not getting enough food to meet your required caloric intake per month that's for sure.
To be honest I think the government is doing it on purpose, in the place I work at we have more than enough food (for fuck shake I was literally having to squeeze in what I could.) probably so that the proles will be too starved to riot (probably won't work mind you, believe me the Tsarists tried this in Russia and all it led to was for the peasants and proles to Join the Bolsheviks.) but yeah, in my opinion most foodbanks absolutely have enough food to go around it's just that the government wants to starve the proles so they don't have the energy to revolt.
Those in power would rather throw food in landfill while people go hungry than equitably distribute it.