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What’s in a food parcel?
We provide three days of nutritionally balanced, non-perishable food and essential toiletries, for each person in your household.
Trussell worked with nutritionists to ensure emergency food parcels contain sufficient nutrition for three days’ worth of meals for individuals and families. At Wandsworth Foodbank, we also offer essential toiletries, as well as baby milk, fresh fruit and vegetables, bread and eggs where we can.
A typical food parcel includes:
- Breakfast cereals
- Soup
- Pasta, rice and/or noodles
- Pasta sauce
- Tinned fish
- Tinned meat (unless vegetarian or halal)
- Tinned vegetables
- Tinned fruit
- Tinned or dried beans, pulses, lentils
- Tea, coffee or hot chocolate
- Long-life milk and juice
- Biscuits
- Snacks
- Essential toiletries, for instance loo roll, laundry tablets, toothbrushes and toothpaste, sanitary products, nappies.
We can adapt your food parcel to meet your dietary and cultural needs, for example, if you need gluten-free or vegetarian items, or food more suitable for someone who is diabetic. Please tell us when you come to one of our welcome centres – we want you to have the food you and your family need. Please also tell us about any food allergies you have.