I wrote about my experience of living on a foodbank parcel for a week.

My article, published in The Courier on Saturday, got a lot of attention. Much more than I expected.

Foodbanks clearly touch a nerve with people. The mere fact that they exist in one of the world’s wealthiest countries.

For my experiment, my local foodbank gave me a shopping list for a parcel to last five days for a single person.

Many of you will have donated tins, packets and jars to foodbanks as I have done, and I was curious to learn what the parcels these go into are like.

Writing my foodbank article was a superficial exercise. Living on a foodbank parcel for a few days is never going to feel like actually relying on a foodbank.

But I wanted to help draw attention to foodbanks and remind people who can why we should support them.

It was a tough week, but not for the reasons I anticipated.

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