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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:

  • Breakfast cereals
  • Soup
  • Pasta
  • Rice
  • Pasta sauce
  • Tinned beans
  • Tinned meat/fish
  • Tinned vegetables
  • Tinned fruit
  • Tea or coffee
  • UHT milk
  • Sugar
  • Biscuits
  • Snacks
  • Basic toiletries/washing powder, etc if required

 Dietary requirements

Our foodbank can usually adapt your food parcel to meet your dietary needs, for example, gluten free, halal or vegetarian – please ask your referrer to note any specific instructions.

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