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What’s in a food parcel?
Our foodbank provides three days of nutritionally balanced, non-perishable food.
For updates during Covid-19 please click here https://middlesbrough.foodbank.org.uk/covid-19-update/
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 or Rice
- Pasta sauce or tinned tomatoes
- Tinned beans
- Tinned meat (or vegetarian/fish options)
- Tinned vegetables
- Tinned fruit
- Tea or coffee
- Biscuits
- Snacks
Dietary requirements
Our foodbank can usually adapt your food parcel to meet your dietary needs, for example, gluten free, halal or vegetarian. When you arrive at the foodbank centre, a volunteer will chat to you about an special dietary requirements you may have.