My brown bin is too small!

With 5 children to feed daily (no I have never claimed any benefits - not even child benefit when we were eligible before the rules changed!) have found my brown bin to be too small for a week of food waste - has anyone else found this? I phoned the waste team who said "you must reduce your food waste". Why? It is all compostable? Its the packaging that causes the big problems! They then said I could purchase another brown bin (why should I pay even more for bins after paying for the garden waste). Their suggestion to me was use my black bin! They confirmed I will not be fined and can use it for any rubbish! Grrrrrr what is the point of all the recycling bins if effectively they are suggesting I should recycle less than we did before? This means MORE and not less food waste will be going to landfill rather than being composted. Surely the temptation will be not to bother with the brown bin at all!

Now I will have a smelly brown bin and a smelly black bin! Furious! Any helpful suggestions or advice on how to get them to see the error in their ways and give me another brown bin (or a larger one) for free?

Surely the answer is to buy less food, cook less and use what you have.

Wow! A whole brown bin full of food waste? That's a lot of waste!  We have 8 banana skins, 17 tea bags and a bit of orange peel in ours and I feel bad for not putting it in the compost bin at the bottom of the garden.

i havn't used mine yet, that's how waste i produce, can i have a discount on my council tax.

Becasue, to be fair a lot of people have the mentality these days that only benefit scroungers have that many kids.