Hey everyone if this post isn't allow then mods feel free to delete it or point me in the right direction. I was told to cross post here from another sub.
My hours at my job have been cut to almost nothing. Money is very tight. I'm constantly putting off one bill to make sure the other is getting paid. I was over a week late on rent in May. I'm looking for a new job and have three interviews lined up next week so I'm really hoping something will come through. When I'm not applying to jobs, I'm trying to find odd ways of making a little extra money like babysitting for my neighbors and taking care of my own kid.
Well, I thought to hopefully save a few bucks that could go towards my Little One's diapers or my electric bill, I went to my local food bank. LO is constantly refusing bottle and wants whatever is on my plate - to the point of literally snatching food off my plate and stuffing it in their mouth. So yesterday, after I worked a pitiful 3 hour shift, I loaded my kiddo up in the car and we went to the food bank.
And this and this is what we get. Along with a loaf of bread that looks like it's starting to grow mold, and 10 cans of canned goods. No meat, no milk, no cheese, no peanut butter, etc. that I've seen people say food banks give out.
I was dumb, and didn't look in the bag they gave me (they gave me a little burlap sack/bag like you would reuse at a grocery store) until we got home. I can't feed my child this. The canned goods, yeah no problem. My kid loves green beans and corn whether they come from a can or not. But I can't give them moldy bread. I can't give them rotting bell peppers and bags of salad that look like they were thrown in the dumpster.
I cried. I legit cried once I put LO down to sleep. I'm only working at most 15 hours a week, if I'm lucky I work 30. I make barely above minimum wage. I wasted gas and time that could have been spent on applying to more jobs, thinking it would be beneficial to me and my LO and it wasn't. I don't have the funds to go to the grocery store and re-buy everything the food bank gave me. I don't even know who to contact to complain about this because my local food bank is only open on Fridays from noon until 5 pm.
I just feel so disappointed. And sad that there are people out there who have no other option but to use food banks and they eat this because they can't afford not to. It's either eating rotting food or going hungry. This isn't right at all.
June 09, 2018 at 09:21AM
