{"id":536,"date":"2014-06-15T06:07:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T06:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=536"},"modified":"2014-06-15T06:18:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T06:18:43","slug":"rethinking-food-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking Food Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep seeing references to <a title=\"Food Banks\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Food_bank\" target=\"_blank\">food banks<\/a>, and lists of what food banks will take, as I&#8217;m visiting various supermarkets.<\/p>\n<p>What I don&#8217;t see on these lists could ever be described as healthy:- never mind organic food.<\/p>\n<p>None of them would be of much help to anyone who wants to eat low fat, low salt, &amp; sugar free food:- Never mind a Vegie or Vegan diet.<\/p>\n<p>Neither do any of them seem to promote the &#8216;5 a day&#8217; ( fresh fruit and veg ) meals which health workers keep banging on about.<\/p>\n<p>So perhaps it&#8217;s time for them to do a rethink.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s time to set up a some food bank collections places in health food stores or local green grocers.<\/p>\n<p>The<a title=\"The Ontario Vegetarian Food Bank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vegfoodbank.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/a><span lang=\"EN-CA\"><a title=\"The Ontario Vegetarian Food Bank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vegfoodbank.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ontario  Vegetarian Food Bank (OVFB) i<\/a>n <\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\">Scarborough, Ontario, could act as a good example of just what is needed. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Maybe this is an issue which some of the vegetarian and vegan campaigning groups might like to start working upon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep seeing references to food banks, and lists of what food banks will take, as I&#8217;m visiting various supermarkets. What I don&#8217;t see on these lists could ever be described as healthy:- never mind organic food. None of them would be of much help to anyone who wants to eat low fat, low salt, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/?p=536\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rethinking Food Banks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theproject.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}