Mum explains why she gave away her free food shop the week before Christmas

Christmas can be tough sometimes.

For many people, it's a time of fun, festivities, and lots and lots of food. However, for others, it can be a time of struggling to make ends meet as you try and figure out just how you're going to afford to put a Christmas dinner on the table, let alone find the cash for all of those presents. Gylisa Jayne is a mum who knows only too well the reality of struggling at Christmas time. When she was younger, she said her family used to rely on food banks to provide them with treats and 'luxury' items at Christmas. Think chocolate, conditioner, and 'fancy' toilet roll. So when Gylisa was given a free food shop in Aldi, she knew it was too much of a good opportunity to turn down. She took to Facebook to write about what she did. She wrote:

"Years ago - my family had to use a food bank... Nothing like getting one of those boxes through to get you scribbling off your rather optimistic Christmas list... Eh kids ? "But it was a god send - chocolate, peanuts, shampoo and conditioner, food staples, even the fancy loo roll....! "I swore then that I’d repay the karma one day when I could. So I've just dropped off a full food shop, with a few Christmas bits in too to our local food bank. "Thanks to food banks, for feeding my family when we needed it years ago, and for continuing to feed people in their time of need."

A lovely gesture, if we ever saw one. People on Facebook tended to agree too. "Your soul is beautiful," wrote one user. "You are an angel," said another.