My box has arrived and just left on door step. I cannot eat all that in a week. 2 kg of pots and i eat 1 small potato a day. Plus rice and past very large tin of peaches and 3 tins tomato soup . I mini tablet orange scented soap and a container of Lynx body wash. Much more besides . Dont want to be ungrateful but surely nobody could eat all that. Will have to phone and see if i can keep the supermarket priority and cancel the box Had the phone call from the council on friday. I have the box but not the letter as post has dropped to about 2 deliveries per week!
2 Loo rolls welcome. March - last time i went shopping there were none to be had.
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It takes a few weeks to cancel the government hamper , but as said you can give it to a charity to help the more needy . I got a message when mine cancelled saying it should not alter your priority slot with supermarket and a number to ring if you get any problems or need the food hamper restarted. Hope that helps.
They can’t account for different appetites though. Some people might well eat 2kg potatoes a week. Personally I rarely eat them, or pasta, so when I googled & discovered what the boxes contained it was an easy decision to decline them. Now I’ve got regular supermarket deliveries anyway, thank goodness. I’m sure you won’t lose priority if you cancel the box.
I’m only getting post about every 10 days. I got lots of cards AFTER my birthday! I’ve had same lovely postman for 35yrs so am worried he’s sick
10 days and i complain about 1 otr 2 a week. Thank good ness we have e mails.
Pass what you don't need to neighbours, or do you have a food bank nearby? Think of others who might be in need, but don't get the help you are receiving.
You re-register oñ the gov.uk die and answer the questions again, but answering you have someone to get shopping fo you, I did this last week, and didn't then get s parcel this week, hopefully now it will have gone to someone that needs it.
Oh i wouldnt waste them ! Most went to a retired neighbour who collected them straight away . I hsve to sort out how i cancel the next box without losing the supermarket option. A neighour helps at present but i have now run out of cash and cheques are not wanted by anybody except the newsagent . I even pay for my 4 bottles of milk delivered weekly by direct debit ! The neighbour works usually but not now and gets food for his and his wife s parents so mine as well is an extra load . He will be going back to work sometime so i am anticipating that . I was very lucky that he offered as i have not been out since March. and would have been very short of food if relying on the government .
My option is to continue but donate to food banķ. I dont know which is best. I think the food bank so will find out contact number for them but i didnt want the box left outside the front door and i couldnt move it. It is a lot of food. Much more than i ever expected.
I cancelled my government box. You still keep your supermarket priority. I did it by revisiting the government website. I got another two boxes, I think. They then sent me an email saying that they were cancelling the box, that it did not affect my priority status with the supermarket and that I could reregister for deliveries at any time.
There’s no correlation between priority delivery slots and food boxes, you won’t lose out: both local and national government would prefer you to use the supermarket delivery, as it doesn’t cost them anything, and the spending aids the precarious economy. We had to go down the food box route for the first month because we couldn’t get a slot with anyone for love nor money, but once I had that sorted, I phoned the local authority and cancelled. Received another box despite that, but refused it at the doorstep - the guy was fine about it and said he’d make a note. Same thing the following week with the same reply from the gent delivering, but the message seemed to get back after that and the food boxes stopped.
Thanks everyones experience helps. Just got to get my card accepted now.
Your priority slots are safe but cancelling is a pain. You have to get hold of th e driver/delivery person and ask them to take you off the list. It seems to be the only way to cancel them.
The only way I could cancel my box was by talking to the local council. Going on the website and talking to the delivery driver didn’t help. Any food we didn’t need our local Covid community group picked up to take to a food bank. All sorted now but it did take nearly a month!
I phoned and cancelled my food box, but it didn’t affect my supermarket delivery slots. I thought the selection of food in the boxes was very good, but was happy to let someone else benefit instead.
Think it depends on packer working from basic list and what they hsve nearest to hand . I kept some tins and pack of biscuits . Retired neighbour had rest.
I managed to cancel the box but my supermarket slot was not affected so that was good. Takes about 3 weeks after cancelling before delivery of the box actually stops. I just use to share my contents with neighbours and friends.
I managed to finally cancel my box, but only by going to the government website and re-filling out the vulnerability form saying I did not need help with food. I then got a text from Gov UK telling me the box had been cancelled but this would not affect my priority supermarket deliveries. So far so good.
It seems obvious to me that if they have arranged priority supermarket deliveries for you, you don't need a government food box. Such a waste when there are people going starving.
I was amazed how it was always 3 tins of tomato soup every week my cupboard is full of the stuff and I am not a lover of it. Also never eat pasta so that always had to go as well so whilst for a while it was most appreciated the contents were not really that well thought out
No i dont like that soup either. That must be on recognised standard UK menu ! I was surprised to get basmati rice , not just basic rice but basmati , which i do prefer.
I have my box picked up by the local hub and it gets distributed between people who have very little, whom the government has paid little attention to. So don't cancel your box, get in touch with your local council/hub and gave it collected, they need it! Thanks, Jaybird!
All this time i never got any priority booking. I really didn't want the box of food which i would have given to the church but i think my vulnerable person status got lost. Still my 12 weeks is almost up and we have had no deaths for 3 weeks here so might just venture out myself.
I didnt hear and was told to phone doctor. Did you do this ? I was told that they changed the qualifying definitions but he asked questions about abilitiès and i was put on list.,
Try phoning doctor . Do you get help at present from añybody . ? Dont risk going out because there are no deaths locally. There are many people who are infectious but show no symptoms . A mask will not protect you. It protects others from you ! It is not good having to stay in especially if you havent a garden .
It all sounds very carb-heavy Jaybird. Im glad Ive never registered for the government food parcels as I wouldnt eat the rice, pasta, tinned peaches etc etc. Some of that I like but eating hardly any carbs is how I control my borderline diabetes.
i have had this box for a dew weeks. The idea is great but the contents are very repetitive. Have had the identical things/soup flavours for the last 4 weeks - last week the loose tea bags and coffee sachets were in their usual plastic bag BUT the Lynx shower gel and soap which looks like hotel/gift box soap was in the same bag .... good job the Lynx top stayed closed.... The fresh carrots do not last overnight I'm afraid and the mandarins a little longer. Our seem to go mouldy after a few days even though I wipe and dry them.
It would be nice to have some LADIES shower gel/shampoo/toothpaste even and my husband would really really appreciate some disposable razors. I am not being ungrateful in any way but we are shielding and that is why we get the box. Appearance is also important particularly at this time.
We live in sheltered housing and anything we don't need goes on a table in the foyer and folks help themselves to what they need so it doesn't get wasted in any way.
Hia I get boxes too nothing I can eat tins out date wroten veg ok keep loo roles tuna for my cat . My carer takes to food bank . They sort tried cancel web sight don’t work . Ridiculous. No wonder. People. Sick this country. If that what gov thinks a 70 year old vegetarian.with copd & Ibs fibromyalgia. Eats . !!
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Has anyone else had this problem with a food box?
Advice please,
Found this whiling away the night........ It is some other ways of saying someone is not the sharpest tool in the box!!! lol
Government at risk list
PIP assessment….distressed!
