Food Banks Don’t Need Your Food. Keep Your Chocolate Sauce and Baby Corn. Please.

You know full well what they actually need

Maria Shimizu Christensen
GEN
Published in
4 min readNov 13, 2021

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Photo by Aaron Doucett on Unsplash

Many years ago I reluctantly became a food bank client. Trying to feed two kids as a single mother with only one income was a challenge after paying to keep a roof over our heads, among other things. There was a recession and I was laid off from my job. The…

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Maria Shimizu Christensen
GEN
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Writer. Maker. Featured in Medium’s 2021 list of Stories That Started Conversations. I write about life. https://www.mariashimizuchristensen.com